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Howard Sherman is a New York based arts administrator and advocate. He is director of the Arts Integrity Initiative at The New School for P...

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Author Audrey Niffenegger has revealed her surprise to learn about a musical based on her bestselling book The Time Traveller’s Wife, saying she knew nothing about it and describing the situation as “peculiar”

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