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As a New Yorker I always thought the highly successful “The Ride,” and award-winning coach bus ride treats visitors to New York and locals who have never taken the time to visit the city’s cultural wonderlands had nothing new to offer this longtime critic.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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At 9 a.m. on Monday, this critic was at her computer poised to read the results of our Outer Critics Circle awards winners. One of the most thrilling moments in my long-time “Critic-At-Leisure” column was the day I arrived at the then South Shore Record office in Hewlett to find a very official look letter. Its opening sentence was Dear Tony Voter!
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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As I wrote this the 70th annual Tony Awards nominations were streamed live on CBS. Along with information on the June 3 “Stars in the Alley” — one of the most exciting opportunities to see and hear the best of Broadway theater you could want to see — and hear — and it’s all free!
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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It was a smash hit when Richard Brinkley Sheridan’s “School For Scandal” debuted in 1777, and never has the truism, the more things change, the more they remain relentlessly the same!
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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The news on Monday that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” an epic musical about the scandalous life and times of Alexander Hamilton, a founding father of our nation, had won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was no surprise.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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When Tiger Woods was in his prime, and this critic, an ardent golfer who followed his every putt with my heart in my mouth, it was because in that era I admired his demeanor as much as his talent.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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These days when every news headline seems to have a scary taint of the surreal, the best respite to be found is to turn off CNN (or its ilk) and try to find competitors for the gold ring for shocking news.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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In one of the world’s most anthologized poems, W. H. Auden’s “The Second Coming” he wrote of a changing civilization where “Things Fall Apart,” “the centre cannot hold.”
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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There are many definitions of the word stunning, including the one that seems most appropriate for Marco Ramirez’s magnificent stunner currently taking ones very breath away at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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This critic went through three books of “Quotations” (unsuccessfully!) trying to find out who was responsible for saying “home is where they have to take you in.” Because, from the opening scene of the gripping, memory provoking revival of Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the playwright’s message is clear.
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By Arlene Epstein
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8/19/16
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