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Ted Bell, a former award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director who abandoned Madison Avenue in his 50s to recast himself as a best-selling novelist by writing and marketing his Alex Hawke spy thrillers, died in Hartford, Conn. He was 76. https://t.co/84eyyB9c6p

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The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Assassins,” the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, became the latest show to cut its run short because of the coronavirus, announcing Tuesday that it would cancel its remaining performances. https://t.co/uTYO0d3OaO

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Adrienne Warren will return to Broadway this spring in “Room,” written and adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 best-selling novel. https://t.co/tZ8AUT67YN

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How St. Peter’s became the belle of the March Madness ball. “It’s not just a Cinderella story,” said Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who graduated from St. Peter’s University. “It’s David versus Goliath.” https://t.co/ZmOrwRkN47

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Gary Shteyngart was working on a dystopian comedy — about a futuristic Manhattan where New York University seized control of half the city — when the first Covid wave hit New York. He fled for the Hudson Valley and instead wrote “Our Country Friends.” https://t.co/18GP5xZMfh

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“Downstate,” a Bruce Norris play that @JesseKGreen called a “squirmy moral-thrill-ride,” will make its New York premiere this October as part of Playwrights Horizons’ new season. Also on the lineup: Agnes Borinsky’s “The Trees,” directed by Tina Satter. https://t.co/fJnMRlxJdX

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Alice Sebold, the best-selling author of the memoir “Lucky” and the novel “The Lovely Bones,” apologized publicly on Tuesday to a man who was wrongly convicted of raping her in 1982 after she had identified him in court as her attacker. https://nyti.ms/3ru4zap

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Alice Sebold, the best-selling author of the memoir “Lucky” and the novel “The Lovely Bones,” apologized publicly on Tuesday to a man who was wrongly convicted of raping her in 1982 after she had identified him in court as her attacker. https://nyti.ms/3ru4zap

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“The Thanksgiving Play,” Larissa FastHorse’s satirical sendup about an elementary school drama teacher attempting to organize a culturally sensitive holiday pageant, is coming to Broadway next spring. https://t.co/EHOY10V5gx

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Catherine Burns, the artistic and executive director of the Moth, spends her Sundays, unsurprisingly, reading and remembering people’s stories, while running through Brooklyn, gardening and playing games with her family. https://t.co/kokFZ1ASi1 https://t.co/YOhcjhw8w3