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BroadwayWorld sat down with the co-directors of the production to learn more about their process and bringing the Jazz Age to life at Paper Mill. After Midnight intertwines the poetry of Langston Hughes with songs from big-band legends Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, and more.

The Chicago band grapples with impermanence and loss on their memorable indie rock debut.

This week's best new indie releases featuring Strange Ranger, Claud, Grian Chatten, Panchiko, and more.

Bender will succeed Patrick Parker, who held the position for nearly three decades.

Recent success in closing the digital divide in Oakland, California, schools suggests what a partnership approach can achieve.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Matthew Gardiner, new Artistic Director of Signature Theatre. Photo by Christopher Mueller. Signature Theatre’s Board of Directors voted to accept the recommendation from the Artistic Director Search Committee to  appoint  Matthew Gardiner Signature Theatre’s new Artistic Director. The Artistic Director Search committee, comprised of artists, Signature staff and Board members, voted unanimously to appoint Gardiner after an exhaustive, nationwide search facilitated by AlbertHall&Associate...

On its first release "Spill," the post-punk band Cusp combines bursts of fuzzed-out guitars with introspective angst.

Eric cantor and john boehner, going on record, or on background, saying that a truce is in the works. jen bender, you cover the zoo known as capitol hill and cover it now. whats the likelihood -- first of all, how big a deal is it that there are senior advisers saying that theres a truce in the works? >> well, it is noteworthy that their staff is acknowledging something that people have already kind of known for a while, but have always denied, have always said, were fine, were a united party, n...

Came and went, that facebook has integrated itself as the backbone as so many other parts of the web. its a deliberate strategy and one thats worked for them. if you go to jens site, "the huffington post," youve got a bunch of facebook opportunities to see what your friends, not on the huff po, but on facebook, what are they reading and recommending? same on "the new york times." so when we consider the social graph of saying, yeah, i can see on the page, people spend more time per day than on a...