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In the forward to his translation of the “Thousand and One Nights,” the nineteenth-century English translator Richard F. Burton wrote of the work’s “most fa ...

National tour of Broadway hit ‘Aladdin’ brings musical to Sarasota for the first time with Booker High School grad Victoria Byrd in the cast.

In her first national tour, Victoria Byrd performs in the ensemble and understudies Princess Jasmine in the lavish Disney musical ’Aladdin’

This New Mexico school district is ground zero for the disparity

In New Mexico, Native American students are expelled far more often than any other group and at least four times as often as white students. Gallup-McKinley County Schools, is responsible for most of that disparity, according to an analysis of state records by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica.

Gallup-McKinley schools are ground zero for that disparity

In Gallup-McKinley County Schools, wearing the wrong color shirt can get you written up for “gang-related activity.” Banging on a window is bullying. The district is responsible for most of New Mexico’s disproportionate expulsions of Native students.

Bright costumes, intricate set designs, and strong performances and a few new wrinkles to the story, turn the dazzle dial up to 11.

WISHES DO COME TRUE. Every night, on stage, Marcus M. Martin portrays a genie granting Aladdin three wishes. But the very fact he’s onstage in that role is in itself a wish fulfilled … and an answer to prayer. Mr. Martin, who’s in the national Broadway touring production of “Disney’s Aladdin,” saw “Friend Like Me”

WISHES DO COME TRUE. Every night, on stage, Marcus M. Martin portrays a genie granting Aladdin three wishes. But the very fact he’s onstage in that role is in itself a wish fulfilled … and an answer to prayer. Mr. Martin, who’s in the national Broadway touring production of “Disney’s Aladdin,” saw “Friend Like Me”