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Willem Dafoe has unveiled his first lineup in his new role as the artistic director of the theater department of the Italian arts organization La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Biennale, the foundation that oversees the Venice Film Festival, including a new take on Pinocchio and “a performance experiment,” of which he will be a part.

Last summer, the star signed on for a two-year term running through 2026, and on Thursday, he shared the lineup of performances for his first season, including Davide Iodice’s Pinocchio — What Is a Person?, a perfect fit for Dafoe’s vow that his theater program would be “charted by my personal development — a sort of exploration of the essence of the body.”

The 53rd International Theater Festival in Venice will run May 31-June 15.

“My impulse was to present pieces that express what is powerful in the theater — the body, poetry and ritual,” Dafoe said...

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” Andy Warhol famously said, but the legendary artist probably didn’t expect that such a sentiment would apply to his own screen tests, which have endured over the decades as a curious, intimate look at the inner workings of his creative process.

Filmed during the ’60s-era heyday of his Warhol Factory, the black and white screen tests feature a slew of Warhol regulars — from Ondine to Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed to Bob Dylan — and other famous faces of the day, all lensed on Warhol’s own Bolex camera. Nearly 500 of the screen tests were filmed, though Warhol did not use or exhibit all of them. Favorites were arranged into various compilations that were then screened by Warhol for assorted audiences, though they’ve continued to inspire and delight fans for decades past their original filming.

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One of the most famous but little-seen American high art totems of the modern era, Einstein on the Beach, alit in Los Angeles for the first time for three performances over the weekend. Presented by L.A. Opera and defined as such by its creators, it is less an opera than an acute sensory occasion, an uninterrupted four-hour-plus cascade of pulsating Philip Glass music, extraordinary stage pictures courtesy of Robert Wilson, arresting movement and choreography by Lucinda Childs, and meanings that percolate, confound, sometimes bubble to the surface and often elude. For a work that is now

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time wins seven awards, with Top Hat and Sweeney Todd victorious in musical categories

The categories in full

Best actor

Luke Treadaway for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

Best actress

Helen Mirren for The Audience (Gielgud theatre)

MasterCard best new play

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

Best director

Marianne Elliott for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

Best revival

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Apollo theatre)

Best actor in a supporting role

Richard McCabe for The Audience (Gielgud theatre)

Best actress in a supporting role

Nicola Walker for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

White Light award for lighting design

Paule Constable for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Cottesloe)

Best...