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New York Times

Jesse Helms Dies at 86; Conservative Force in the Senate

A Greek God and His Groupies Are Dressed to Kill
The National Theater of Scotland’s playfully irreverent staging of “The Bacchae” keeps you entertained almost to the end.

Clever Conceit Makes an Engaging ‘La Mancha’

ARTS BRIEFLY: Film of ‘Passing Strange’
Spike Lee will film the Tony Award-winning musical “Passing Strange,” Entertainment Weekly reported on its Web site.

Curtain Up Hartford: Reviving a Legend
When Tina Fabrique was 12 and growing up in Harlem, her mother took her to see Ella Fitzgerald perform.

A Timeless Stage Backdrop
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, which performs in a tent on the grand green lawn of Boscobel Restoration, is putting on “Twelfth Night” and “Cymbeline” this summer.
Review: A Panoramic Subject for Artists

ARTS BRIEFLY: Grants to Compose
The Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., has received a $300,000 grant to commission musicals by young composers, The Washington Post reported.

Trying to Teach ‘The Fly’ to Soar Operatically
Howard Shore’s opera “The Fly” had its world premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with David Cronenberg directing.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: Close Quarters Magnify the Unease in ‘Relocated’
A tightly packed audience and a series of blackout vignettes about unsettling sex crimes raise the creepiness level at the Royal Court’s production of “Relocated.”

Village Voice Blog

Jesse Helms Finally Dies
If we're lucky, he took some of his bitter bigotry with him.

Associated Press

Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
A vast collection of 78 rpm records -- valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history -- is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.