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A theatrical, immersive performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, “The Great Gatsby,” opens on Sunday at the Park Central Hotel, the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations. https://t.co/0kJ1ZVptD6

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That latest adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel “Around the World in 80 Days,” coming soon to PBS’s Masterpiece, is, in a sense, more worldly — tailored to contemporary sensibilities with a more diverse cast of characters. https://t.co/dDm7jjPje1

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“Sanditon,” based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel, was canceled after its first season in Britain, but its ardent fans helped to bring it back. https://t.co/cvtdIL3wdP

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A trove of items left by Ernest Hemingway in a Key West bar more than 80 years, including four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects, is now part of a new archive at Penn State. https://t.co/1s5CSBQU7F

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When Broadway audiences saw Elizabeth Baker’s play “Chains” in 1912, her name was in very small type, with the script’s adapter given more prominence. The Mint Theater Company’s Off Broadway revival puts her front and center. https://t.co/0cTLATjwxO

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“The rise of Trump and candidates like him,” Mary Ziegler asserts, “is the story of the Republican establishment’s demise.” @jenszalai reviews “Dollars for Life.” https://t.co/HHeGA4uagO

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James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry are communing once again this fall, in productions of “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge” and “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Public Theater. https://t.co/XWYRGMxV1b

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Two of David Del Tredici’s grand, psychedelic works inspired by Lewis Carroll and “Alice in Wonderland” have received their first recordings. https://t.co/pUXiXwi5cA

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Less can be more. But Bedlam theater company’s exuberant productions of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” and Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” suggest that more can also be too much. https://t.co/njw6IWQTPM

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In her memoir, “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” Jennette McCurdy, best known for her role in “iCarly,” reflects on her time as a child actor and on her troubled relationship with her mother. https://t.co/Aw8QdwDfkZ