AP Entertainment Review: 'Barber' at Met
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Instead of snow-filled scenes of Paris, sun-splashed Spain was on stage at the Metropolitan Opera on Christmas Eve.
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For Damon Dash, an antique barber chair summons not just his own thrice-weekly shave-and-a-haircut practice, but also the onetime ablutions of the its mythic owner.
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This well mannered film wants to be an outdoor, barbecue-grilled "Barbershop" but lacks the pungency and honesty of its prototype.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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Russell Braun as Figaro, the multitasking barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Credit: Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times) Before I reveal the Figaro Factotum regimen for greater personal productivity, let me explain how it came about. Maintaining a blog while doing other things has reminded me of how bad I am [...].
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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Entertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 6-12:
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Kurt Masur has been back in town this week, conducting the New York Philharmonic and bringing word from Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky.
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Its newest Broadway show gets the usual kiss-off from the critics. What's their problem?
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A once-maligned genre, retooled for a new generation, has yielded hits such as 'Once,' 'Sweeney Todd,' and 'Hairspray.'
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To a style aficionado, âMad Menâ is that rare TV show in which an ashtray, a lipstick or an aerosol tin gets star treatment.
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Despite some flaws, the Times Square Ripleyâs Believe It or Not! Odditorium is so entertaining and provocative that itâs worth special attention.
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The musicals that have played at the Hilton Theater, including Mel Brooks's forthcoming âYoung Frankenstein," should give pause even to a producer confident of his showâs superiority.
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The 36-year-old actor, scheduled to attend the premiere of his directorial debut, âDedication,â headed out to search for meaning (or at least dinner) in Brooklyn.
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Some thoughts on the New York shows (and parties) from Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Narciso Rodriguez.
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The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera.
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NEW YORK  --  Sirius Satellite Radio and the Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that they will start a new channel to broadcast four performances a week during the company's 32-week season. It's part of the Met's vast media expansion under new general manager Peter Gelb.