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Act One is an infectious evocation of a vibrant world written, it turns out, by a chronic depressive who also found the business “pure hell.”

In this Act One excerpt, the author who dreamed of working in the theater gets his first shot.

Outfoxed director Robert Greenwald, ten years on.

Files from the beginning of the Ailes era.

The conservative news channel’s only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better.

Composer John Kander on opening Broadway doors with Stephen Sondheim.

A lifetime making sense of the extraordinary songwriter—as young fan; critic and “enemy”; and, by now, old friend.

Excerpts from James Baldwin’s 1949 essay “Everybody’s Protest Novel.”

Levar Burton on whether we still need the American slave narrative.

If only 12 Years a Slave (or Roots, or any other wrenching American slave narrative) could move audiences beyond those already eager for a dose of feel-good shame.