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For TV viewers who nonetheless haven’t minimize the twine, here’s a choice of cable and community reveals, motion pictures and specials broadcasting Monday via Sunday, April 22-28. Details and occasions are topic to vary. Monday THE SYNANON FIX 9 p.m. on HBO. In 1958, Synanon opened their doorways in California as drug rehabilitation middle. But […] More

Lourdes Portillo, the Oscar-nominated Mexican-born documentary filmmaker whose work explored Latin American social points by way of spellbinding narratives, has died. She was 80. Ms. Portillo died Saturday at her house in San Francisco. Her loss of life was confirmed by her buddy Soco Aguilar. No trigger was given. One of Ms. Portillo’s best-known works […] More

In her essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” the novelist Ursula Ok. Le Guin hymned the bag as the correct form for tales: it “is stuffed with beginnings with out ends, of initiations, of losses, of transformations and translations, and way more tips than conflicts.” One of the characters in Lia Romeo’s “Still,” a […] More

Beyond this reminder of Britten, Neuwirth folds in nods to different kinds and works — crisp, courtly echoes of Baroque music; touches of louche, soiled blues; the solemn bells of Wagner’s “Parsifal” — within the eclectic method of Berio’s 1968 “Sinfonia” or Mahler’s symphonies, to offer a way of the burden of historical past on […] More

For Pelt, that camaraderie was key. At the outset of the “Griot” mission, he mentioned, it was clear “what was wanted to actually do one thing like that was a big stage of belief from musician to musician,” one thing he had constructed up throughout his 20 years on the scene, working with esteemed veterans […] More

Lincoln Center mentioned on Wednesday that it might dedicate its summer time pageant to themes of neighborhood and civic participation, with a mixture of hip-hop, comedy, dance, classical music and extra below the motto “life, liberty and happiness.” The pageant, Summer for the City, will function premieres of anthems about modern hopes and struggles. Classical […] More

The solar was setting on the opening evening of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival final weekend and the temper backstage in Justice’s artist compound was simmering nervousness, masked by glasses of wine and discrete vaping. In a couple of hours, the Paris-based digital music duo would debut an all-new stage present and provides […] More

The purpose for “A Brief History of the Future” wasn’t to disregard local weather change or different seam rippers of the social material however, in traditional Mr. Rogers model, to look to the helpers. “There’s an enormous quantity of focus within the information and storytelling usually on what may go horribly unsuitable,” Murdoch mentioned. “What […] More

There was by no means a lot doubt that the Alicia Keys musical, “Hell’s Kitchen,” was going to be on Broadway. Keys spent 12 years creating a loosely autobiographical jukebox of her songs, incorporating such hits as “Girl on Fire,” “Fallin’” and “No One.” The drawback is that whereas it performed to sold-out crowds, the […] More

“Wreath” appears to be like, and sounds, a lot easier than it’s. The gamers pluck or bow a two-note, upward phrase that constantly modifications in its concord and quantity; every measure is completely different, reworking just like the damaged chords of Bach’s well-known Prelude in C and settling right into a meditative circulation. Once that […] More

The first time the musician Judith Hill carried out her anguished requiem “Black Widow” for an viewers, she wept, proper onstage. The tune’s title is an epithet that has been directed at her for years by tabloids and trolls as a result of as a vocalist and artist, she had been shut with two of […] More

Mandisa Hundley, a gospel singer whose robust vocals have been applauded on “American Idol” and who later gained a Grammy Award for finest up to date Christian music album, was discovered dead at her dwelling in Nashville on Thursday. She was 47. The Media Collective, which represented Ms. Hundley, confirmed the demise and stated in […] More