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Theater for the 99%

Bucking a trend, new Gehry-designed Signature Theatre Center is selling cheap seats to top-class plays.
Two couples spring into chaos in 'Carnage': movie review

Adapted from an award-winning play, 'Carnage' takes two couples, poles apart, and let’s them at it.
In Elizabeth Taylor, a remarkable blend of beauty and tenacity

Elizabeth Taylor's early roles featured only her beauty, but her career – and her fearless embrace of controversial issues – matured until she won three Oscars, including one for humanitarian work.
Elizabeth Taylor remembered for her roles, both on and off the big screen

Elizabeth Taylor, the actress whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday.
Kennedy Center honors 2010: Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney among five receiving accolades

Kennedy Center honors five in 2010, including Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Bill T. Jones, Merle Haggard, and Jerry Herman.
In Pictures: Kennedy Center Honors
Edward Albee: American playwright's goal is to stir humans to change

Albee views drama as a catalyst and creates plays that hold up a mirror to human behavior and make people think.
Review: 'Antichrist'

A couple confronts the death of their child in this visceral horror movie that shocks without saying much.
Broadway leaps into spring

Some big-name actors return to the stage and stir up the classics.
How to Live

New Yorker contributor Henry Alford hopes to uncover wisdom by talking with the elderly.
Theater for an unlikely audience

A Minnesota troupe brings the timeless humor and complexities of Shakespeare to the homeless, prisoners, and the like.
Is it harder to write or to wed?

Neither matrimony nor writing is easy, suggests Joshua Henkin in his thoughtful novel about a young husband in a writer’s workshop.