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My Son Refuses to Play With an Outcast. Does That Make Him a Bully?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how a parent might address social exclusion among a group of schoolchildren.

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Arts

Review: For Jews, an Unanswered ‘Prayer for the French Republic’

In Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.

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Arts

‘Pirates of Penzance,’ ‘English’ and ‘Yellow Face’ Bound for Broadway

Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.

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Arts

She Helped the Lillys Blossom. Now She’ll Champion Her Own Work.

After years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now.…

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Arts

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Will End Its Broadway Run in April

The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional…

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Sports

Out of Sight, Out of Mind No More

The Africa Cup of Nations and the Asian Cup, once seen as poorly timed intrusions by European soccer, may finally…

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World

Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris

Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game…

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World

Les McCann, Pianist, Singer and Soul Jazz Pioneer, Dies at 88

He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…

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Sports

The Best Teams That Money Could Buy

The four teams in the College Football Playoff used cash payments from fan “collectives” in unique ways to build their…

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World

Mike Nussbaum, Celebrated Chicago Theater Actor, Dies at 99

He appeared memorably in “American Buffalo” and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Glengarry Glen Ross,” but gave up a career…

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