November 7, 2009

“A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.

As Broadway producers try to attract younger audiences, more actors like the children in “Finian’s Rainbow” are turning up onstage.

Eight years of war have left people in Afghanistan exhausted, impatient and increasingly unsure that the Taliban can be defeated.

The institutions’ endowments have suffered, making schools scramble for ways to keep their doors open to students who do not come from wealthy families.

If Joseph Papp had had his way, “Free for All,” Kenneth Turan’s newly published oral history of Papp and the Public Theater he helped found, would never have seen the light of day.