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Mona Molarsky was born in New York and has lived on the Upper West Side for many years. She’s written about city life--from potholes to poetry slams--for newspapers and national magazines.

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Gear up for New York’s annual Village Halloween Parade on Saturday

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Get your costume ready. It’s almost time for New York’s 35th annual Village Halloween Parade—the biggest, most extravagant Halloween...
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Halloween ghouls will haunt the cathedral after the classic movie Nosferatu

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The most amazing and awe-inspiring Halloween celebration in New York actually happens the night before—on Mischief Night—at the Cathedral...
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Puppets in a garden: The Mettawee Theater Company performs on Bishop's Green

Crickets chirped and a breeze rustled through the trees last night as New Yorkers, ranging in age from three to 80, settled into their seats to watch...
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Theater magic from the ground up: stage design at the Morgan

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It all goes back to the Russians. I’m not talking about the Arms Race or the Cold War but American stage design. “Creating the Modern...
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How to get free tickets to see Anne Hathaway in Twelfth Night

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One of the most coveted theater tickets in New York right now isn’t to a Broadway show. It’s to the Public Theater’s production of...
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Anne Hathaway opens Shakespeare in the Park with Twelfth Night

Played on a grassy set designed to look like a park, “Twelfth Night” officially opened the Public Theater’s summer Shakespeare...
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La Famiglia Dimitri: when it comes to the circus, sometimes less is more

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Can a circus be a circus without the usual three-ring razzle-dazzle, pulsating music, lines of dancing elephants, and dozens of antic clowns? Yes, if...
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West Side Story's Nicholas Barasch embodies the Broadway revival's newfound innocence

West Side Story opened on Broadway last night and, in a front-page review today, The New York Times singled out ten-year-old performer Nicholas...
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Broadway kid Nicholas Barasch does West Side Story

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It isn’t easy being a Broadway kid. Ten-year-old Nicholas Barasch—who makes his official Broadway debut in West Side Story tonight--can...
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A Child's Christmas in Wales: searching for Dylan in New York

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Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was the bad boy from Swansea who never grew up. To the end of his short life, he loved smutty jokes and talked of sex with the...
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