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W.M. Akers

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Writer. Met fan. Bi. @SqueakyBicycle playwright, author of WESTSIDE, creator of DEADBALL & COMRADES. Newsletter: strangetimes.substack.com @ouijum@jawns.club
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Everyone Here Can't Play This Game, or The Discreet Charm of the WBC | The Classical

Everyone Here Can't Play This Game, or The Discreet Charm of the WBC | The Classical

Spring Training is a tease. Baseball addicts survive winter's frosty void on a thin diet of trade rumors, "cl…

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A Cold Winter in Coney

A Cold Winter in Coney

Dick Zigun was ready for a two-foot flood. In three decades at Coney Island, every hurricane he had seen blew…

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For audiences with autism, Broadway musicals to last a lifetime | Narratively

For audiences with autism, Broadway musicals to last a lifetime | Narratively

For audiences with autism, Broadway's grandest theaters stage musicals to last a lifetime. At a matinee of th…

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After Newtown, the Comfort of a Broadsheet and Turner Classic Movies | Observer

After Newtown, the Comfort of a Broadsheet and Turner Classic Movies | Observer

It did not take long for me to turn off Twitter, to shut down Facebook, to ignore NYTimes.com. The Internet c…

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'We own the whole widget': Unbowed, Mike Daisey returns to Joe's Pub | Capital New York

'We own the whole widget': Unbowed, Mike Daisey returns to Joe's Pub | Capital New York

It's not usually nice to call someone a sponge, but Mike Daisey is an absorbent guy. He soaks up stories, bin…

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After the storm, New York's theaters face blackouts and empty houses | Capital New York

After the storm, New York's theaters face blackouts and empty houses | Capital New York

The temporary home of St. Ann's Warehouse is on Jay Street, nestled in the heart of Dumbo, just half a block …

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The Case of the Missing Novel: James M. Cain's Lost Novel Finally Surfaces After 35 Years

The Case of the Missing Novel: James M. Cain's Lost Novel Finally Surfaces After 35 Years

At the end of chapter two of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice -published in 1934, the same year…

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Pinter's Laugh Track: For Jonathan Pryce, 'The Caretaker' Is Personal

Pinter's Laugh Track: For Jonathan Pryce, 'The Caretaker' Is Personal

Two brothers share a decrepit East London flat. They take in an aged tramp named Davies, who shares the space…

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Quick Bright Things: At Classic Stage Company, Bebe and Christina Take on the Bard

Quick Bright Things: At Classic Stage Company, Bebe and Christina Take on the Bard

Like an unimaginative lover on Valentine's Day, theater companies like to throw around rose petals. It's alwa…

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The '20s for the 21st Century

The '20s for the 21st Century

Broadway fortunes have been forged from Abba's Greatest Hits. Hearts and bank accounts have been broken tryin…

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Crowd-Source the Dragon: Qui Nguyen and His Vampire Cowboys Are Back

Crowd-Source the Dragon: Qui Nguyen and His Vampire Cowboys Are Back

The dragon is called the Tiamat, and in last fall's production of Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters, this fireb…

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