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Streets used to be full of kids playing. Can those spaces be reclaimed?

Sep 17, 2024
As neighborhoods experiment with play streets, grownups can reconsider modern parenting, Stephanie Murray wrote in The Atlantic.
Children playing safely on city streets may be a thing of the past.
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Smartphone: Enter stage left

Dec 12, 2016
How a play in New York is incorporating technology into its production.
Augmented reality allows audience members to see poppies growing around the stage. 
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Director Mike Nichols on reviving 'Death of a Salesman'

Apr 11, 2012
"Death of a Salesman" is back on Broadway, this time starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Director Mike Nichols talks about the iconic play's economic resonance today.