Gray — who would go on to become a celebrated film actor and monologuist before taking his own life in 2004 — is the most elaborately represented member of the original “Nayatt” cast. (Ari Fliakos reincarnates Vawter, who died of complications from AIDS in 1994.) Gray’s words and gestures are replicated, as much as the … Read more
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at a museum guard-turned-author-turned playwright who is making his Off Broadway debut. We’ll also get details on a pair of socks with heart-shaped notes that were sent to Luigi Mangione, who is facing murder charges in the killing of an insurance executive on a Midtown street. After his … Read more
The Center for Art and Advocacy, a nonprofit that assists artists who have served time in prison, will inaugurate its first physical space on Thursday. The hub, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, opens to the public with an exhibition, “Collective Gestures: Building Community Through Practice,” featuring works by the organization’s fellows. Jesse Krimes, the … Read more
The 5-year-old boy was a fixture on that New York City playground basketball court. Almost every day, he and his father would go to the Booker T. Washington schoolyard on West 108th Street. They played for hours, but his father, an accomplished New York City high school player himself, insisted they stay until the boy … Read more
Earlier this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul recalled experiencing a mix of confusion and dread after seeing President Trump discuss his plans to close the Department of Education. She wondered: Would that endanger her expansion of free school lunches in New York? What would it mean for the state’s Pell Grant allocations? “We don’t have a … Read more
A federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday kept in place, for now, a block on the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of a violent street gang. By a 2-to-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District … Read more
Groups representing university professors sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, alleging that its practice of arresting and threatening noncitizen students and faculty members for protesting on campus deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers and to hear their perspectives. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader … Read more
Patsy Ferran will not judge a book by its cover. But covers are important to her. “See?” she said, palming a copy of a Barbara Kingsolver novel at a Brooklyn branch of McNally Jackson bookstore. “Such a good cover. Aesthetics do matter.” Ferran, a London-based actress, is currently starring in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named … Read more
When William Leggatt was at work as a renewal energy developer a couple of summers ago, he received a bizarre email from a superfan of “Operation Mincemeat,” a British musical about a wacky World War II intelligence plot. As the show outlines, the operation involved British spies dressing a corpse as a military officer, stuffing … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at proposed changes in rules governing a seemingly permanent part of the streetscape in New York City: sidewalk sheds around construction sites and buildings undergoing repairs. We’ll also get details on a letter that raised questions about a Justice Department official’s testimony on the corruption case against Mayor … Read more