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Why Thailand’s ‘Judi Dench’ left retirement for ‘The White Lotus’

Arts, Culture & Media

“The White Lotus,” on HBO, is all about Americans behaving badly in tropical locales, and the third season is set in Thailand. The series is stacked with American celebrities. It’s also catapulted a 77-year-old Thai actress to global fame.

Can robots fall in love? A sci-fi musical from South Korea is now a hit on Broadway.

Arts, Culture & Media

‘Bad Kreyòl’ premieres in New York

Arts, Culture & Media
The marquee at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, where "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is playing.

How to play an autistic math whiz — for an audience of autistic kids

Arts
Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac’s new 24-hour epic show is a full history of American pop music — of a kind

Arts
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This play from Iran is an actor’s nightmare

Arts, Culture & Media

An Iranian playwright, without a passport and unable to leave his country, created a one-person play all about control and submission. Actors see the script for the first time on stage, as they start their first and only performance before a paying audience. The experience has spurred total panic in seasoned actors.

The play "Just Like Us" follows four young immigrants from Mexico and looks at how their legal statuses impact their futures.

The story of undocumented youth in America is selling out a theater in Denver

Global Politics

In Denver, a sold-out play, based on a true story, shows the struggles of young undocumented women from Mexico.

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