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Denzel Washington and Diahann Carroll to Star in ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ on Broadway

Denzel WashingtonChris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington and Diahann Carroll will star in a Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 drama “A Raisin in the Sun” in the spring of 2014, the producer Scott Rudin said on Thursday. Mr. Washington will play Walter Lee Younger, the ambitious young man at the heart of the play; Ms. Carroll, in her first Broadway appearance in over 30 years, will play Lena, the Younger family matriarch. The production will also star Sophie Okonedo (“Hotel Rwanda”) in her Broadway debut as Ruth Younger, and Anika Noni Rose (“Caroline, or Change”) as Beneatha Younger. Also in the cast are Stephen Tyrone Williams, Jason Dirden and Stephen McKinley Henderson; additional casting is to be announced soon. The production will be directed by Kenny Leon, who directed Mr. Washington’s Tony Award-winning performance in the 2010 Broadway revival of “Fences”.

Previews are to begin March 8, 2014, with opening night set for April 3 at the Barrymore Theater. The production will play a limited engagement through June 15, 2014. “A Raisin in the Sun” was last seen on Broadway in 2004, with a cast that included Sean Combs as Walter Lee, Audra McDonald as Ruth, Phylicia Rashad as Lena and Sanaa Lathan as Beneatha.



A Redesign of the Subway Map, From One of Its Designers

A new map of the New York City subway system designed by John Tauranac, who designed the map currently in use, shows lines that do not yet exist, like the Second Avenue Line. The new map is not, however, an official transit system map.John Tauranac A new map of the New York City subway system designed by John Tauranac, who designed the map currently in use, shows lines that do not yet exist, like the Second Avenue Line. The new map is not, however, an official transit system map.

John Tauranac’s description of his new subway map mentions symbols like a little orange disc for outdoor stations, and a “no U-turn” icon that could be helpful if you overshoot a station and wonder whether you will have to pay another fare when you switch to a train heading back the opposite way.

Mr. Tauranac also notes that his map has a new typeface: Myriad, Apple’s corporate font since 2002, replaces Helvetica.

Only then does Mr. Tauranac mention that the new map shows subways that you cannot take. Not yet, anyway.

It shows the planned extension of the No. 7 line to 34th Street and Eleventh Avenue, which is not scheduled to be ready for passenger service until next June. It also shows the Second Avenue subway; its first phase is not scheduled to be completed until December 2016.

The still-to-be-completed lines appear in fainter colors than existing subway lines, but Mr. Tauranac said that showing the Second Avenue subway, in particular, was meant to be an eye-opener.

“The assumption is it will go down Second Avenue,” he said. But the map shows that it will have only three stops on Second Avenue, at 96th Street, 86th Street and 72nd Street. Then it will turn along East 63rd Street and run along the tracks that carry N and R trains.

Mr. Tauranac has had a hand in many subway maps of one kind or another since 1979, but was not the Anaximander of the subways. Anaximander, as every map-lover surely knows, is the pre-Socratic philosopher who is thought by some scholars to have devised the first map of the world. (He thought that the earth was shaped like a cylinder, but that the inhabited part was flat.)

So there were subway maps before Mr. Tauranac led a Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee that produced a redesigned map of the subways in 1979, the map that remains the basis for the agency’s current map.

But the agency had nothing to do with his new map. Mr. Tauranac and the M.T.A. parted ways in the mid-1980s; he says he was “declared redundant” by the agency.

A spokesman for the M.T.A. said it would start showing the longer No. 7 line and the Second Avenue subway on its maps “when they open.” But the route and station locations are already shown on the agency’s Web site.

Mr. Tauranac said he was still trying to redress “problems” that are now 40 years old, dating to the official map that preceded the 1979 map. That earlier map, the one that many found to be aesthetically pleasing, was somewhat lacking in precision.

“There was no attempt to show geographic perspective on that map,” Mr. Tauranac said. “Broadway at 50th Street was shown west of Eighth Avenue.”

“Bowling Green was north of Rector Street,” he added. “If you get out of the subway thinking Bowling Green is north of Rector Street, how are you going to find Rector Street?”

Mr. Tauranac published a “quasi-geographic” map in the 1990s, but it has been out of print for years, he said. Time for some modernizing, and not just about which trains stop at which stations.

In a world in which the “@” symbol has become ubiquitous, perhaps it is not surprising that Mr. Tauranac has found a use for it. He added a locator for the 72nd Street station on the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 lines: “Broadway @ Amsterdam Avenue.” A similar locator places the 66th Street station on the No. 1 line: “Broadway @ Columbus Avenue.”

For the 72nd Street station, he said he wanted to make clear the kinds of details that bleary-eyed morning commuters probably do not notice: Uptown cars and buses, on the east side of the station, are actually on Amsterdam Avenue (the downtown traffic is on Broadway).

As for the 66th Street station, he said, one entrance to the No. 1 line is on Columbus Avenue.

One problem he did not try to straighten out was at Columbus Circle. “If you are standing on the corner of 59th Street and Eighth Avenue,” Mr. Tauranac said, “or the corner of Central Park West and Central Park South, you’re not going to find a street sign that says 59th Street.”

But he did deal with the West Fourth Street station, which has no entrance or exit on West Fourth Street.

“I said West Third to Eighth” in a locator line below the station’s name, he said. Or in the space-constrained language of his map, “W 3-8 Sts.”



Robert Glasper Releasing Sequel to Grammy-Winning ‘Black Radio’

The dark-horse winner for best R&B album at this year’s Grammy Awards was “Black Radio,” a genre-blending, guest-laden effort by the Robert Glasper Experiment. Now Blue Note Records says that a sequel, “Black Radio 2,” will be released on Oct. 29, with a new batch of songs and a new slew of special guests.

Once again the album will feature the Robert Glasper Experiment as a sort of house band, with Mr. Glasper â€" a pianist of roughly equal stature in modern jazz, hip-hop and R&B â€" steering the ship. Among the vocalists featured are the rappers Snoop Dogg, Common and Lupe Fiasco; Patrick Stump, lead singer of the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy; and Norah Jones, who like Mr. Glasper is the product of an acclaimed performing-arts high school in Texas. (They have worked together before, on a 2009 Q-Tip album.)

But the bulk of the album’s singers have a decisive foothold in R&B and soul. Among them are Jill Scott, Brandy, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Emile Sandé, Dwele, Marsha Ambrosius and Luke James. In a departure from “Black Radio,” which was dominated by cover songs, “Black Radio 2” will consist almost entirely of originals. (Lalah Hathaway sings the lone cover, Stevie Wonder’s “Jesus Children of America,” which also includes a spoken-word tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, performed by the former child actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner.)

The Robert Glasper Experiment. The Robert Glasper Experiment.

Mr. Glasper has largely been celebrated for closing a gap between jazz and R&B, and in some sense he carries the standard that other artists have begun to carry forward. On Tuesday Blue Note will release “Live Today,” the debut album by the bassist Derrick Hodge. Among the label’s other recent jazz-meets-soul titles is “No Beginning No End,” an album by the singer José James on which Mr. Glasper played some piano.

One small bit of uncertainty around “Black Radio 2” is the potential effect of a personnel change. “Black Radio” featured Mr. Glasper, Mr. Hodge, Casey Benjamin on vocoder and alto saxophone and Chris Dave on drums. But the drummer on the new album is Mark Colenburg, who has toured with the band. (Mr. Dave, one of the virtuoso rhythm scientists in popular music, recently released a mixtape by his own group, the Drumhedz. He has also kept busy working with D’Angelo.)

Another, more slippery question is whether the self-righteous convictions behind “Black Radio” can resonate the same way this time around. “Thank you for allowing us to play real music,” Mr. Glasper said in his Grammy acceptance speech. It appears that Mr. Hamilton, one of his fellow nominees, took no offense at this; it’s anyone’s guess whether R. Kelly did. But if you interpret “real music” as code for a rigid set of rules, then Mr. Glasper’s efforts start to seem less like a bridging of worlds than a closing of ranks. Given his collaborative history, it’s best to give him the benefit of the doubt.



Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn’t Like

MOSCOW â€" The general director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, the largest art institution in Ukraine, has been accused of censorship and catering to church and state after she painted over in black a mural she had commissioned from the contemporary artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov.

In an appeal posted on Friday a Kiev-based group called the Art Workers’ Self-Defense Initiative called for a boycott of Mystetskyi Arsenal and said that the general director, Natalia Zabolotna, had used “Great and Grand,” the exhibition from which she banned Mr. Kuznetsov, as a vehicle for “presenting culture as an attractive object working for the fusion of state and church, which in this instance is encroaching even on artistic space.”

The exhibition, which presents 1,000 pieces, including icons, opened on July 26 as part of celebrations marking the 1,025th anniversary of events that brought Christianity to Ukraine and Russia. Politicians and clergymen attended the opening. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch, Kirill I, were in Kiev together on Saturday to mark the anniversary with the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich. Mystetskyi Arsenal, or Art Arsenal, is housed in a former tsarist-era weapons arsenal just opposite the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, one of the centers of Orthodoxy.

Mr. Kuznetsov wrote on his Facebook page on July 25 that he had arrived at Mystetskyi Arsenal to find that he was was not being allowed to complete the mural, “Koliivschina: Judgement Day.” Then he learned that it had been painted over. In the work he depicts corrupt clergymen and bureaucrats burning in hell.

Ms. Zabolotna told Levy Bereg, or Left Bank, a popular Ukrainian news Web site, that Mr. Kuznetsov had violated the terms of his commission which, she said, was supposed to be devoted to events in the town of Vradievka, where policemen were accused of raping and brutally beating a young woman. She described his mural as “a slap personally in my face” and “a provocation against visitors to the exhibition” and said that Mr. Kuznetsov had apparently been influenced by plans to hold a protest near the arsenal. About 10 protesters were arrested in front of the art space when they demonstrated on July 26 against the “clericalization of Ukraine.”

“You can call this my own performance,” she said of painting over the work. “I don’t regret what I did.” She added that she was “speaking out against the impudence of certain artists.”

Oleksandr Soloviev, a respected Ukrainian curator and deputy director of Mystetskyi Arsenal, quit after the incident. Ms. Zabolotna did say that Mr. Kuznetsov would still be paid for his work. In a blog post on the Left Bank site the artist described her actions as “an act of vandalism and bureaucratic grovelling.”

In 2012, Ms. Zabolotnaya organized Kiev’s first international contemporary art biennale at the arsenal, and she plans to open a museum of Ukrainian art in 2014.



August 1: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Albanese

Catsimatidis

De Blasio

Liu

Quinn

Thompson

Group event


John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

5:30 p.m.
Attends an invitation-only “friendraiser” at the Columbus Club on East 69th Street.

6:30 p.m.
Attends a meeting of the Metropolitan Republican Club at Dorrian’s Red Hand, on the Upper East Side.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

8 a.m.
Makes what his campaign is billing as a major announcement on education reform at Hunter College’s Roosevelt House, on East 65th Street in Manhattan.

11:30 a.m.
Responding to reports that Interfaith Medical Center is preparing to shut down starting on Aug. 12, Mr. de Blasio, in his role of public advocate, calls a news conference to announce new steps to prevent the closing and to ensure emergency and primary medical services are preserved locally, at the northeast corner of Atlantic and Albany Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

5 p.m.
Greets commuters at the Jamaica Center subway station, in Queens.

7 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets commuters with Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, at the 116th Street subway stop, on Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

9 a.m.
Attends Sylvia’s Restaurant’s annual Harlem community breakfast, at Sylvia’s, on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem.

4:30 p.m.
Tours the small businesses along Hillside Avenue, from 165th Street to 169th Street in Queens.

6 p.m.
Joins Alliance of South Asian American Labor to announce voter registratoin drive, at Tikka Garden, on Hillside Avenue in Queens.

6:30 p.m.
Greets commuters at the Long Island Rail Road train stop in Rosedale, on Francis Lewis Boulevard and Sunrise Highway in Queens.

7:30 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

8:30 p.m.
Attends an Iftar, the traditional evening meal that Muslims share to break their fast during Ramadan, with the Muslim American Society, at the MAS Youth Center on Bath Avenue in Brooklyn.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

11 a.m.
Makes a “major annoucement,” along with the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, who is running for comptroller; State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh; and City Councilman Daniel Garodnick, on the future of the East River waterfront, under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

7:45 a.m.
In an effort, perhaps, to blunt the reputation that John C. Liu has been getting as the race’s Iron Man, the candidate begins a series of 21 back-to-back campaign stops that will take him through all five boroughs over 24 hours and not end until Friday morning. Tour begins with a visit to the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island.

9 a.m.
Hosts coffee with supporters at the King’s Arms Diner, on Staten Island.

10 a.m.
Holds a news conference with Staten Island supporters.

11:45 a.m.
Visits the Dreiser Loop Bronx Senior Center with local leaders.

12:45 p.m.
Meets with small-business owners, on White Plains Road in the Bronx.

1:30 p.m.
Hosts lunch with Bronx leaders at the Pelham Diner.

3:15 p.m.
Meets with small-business owners and voters outside the Borough Hall subway stop, in Brooklyn.

5 p.m.
Greets voters with State Senator José Peralta at the Roosevelt Avenue subway stop, in Queens.

6:30 p.m.
Hosts a meet-and-greet with supporters prior to the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

7 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

9:15 p.m.
Visits sets at Broadway Stages, a production facility for the film and television business, on Meserole Avenue in Brooklyn.

10:30 p.m.
Campaigns with M.T.A. Bridge and Tunnel workers, in Queens.

11:45 p.m.
Meets with local workers at the Dyckman Express diner in Upper Manhattan.

12:15 a.m.
Meets with members of Firehouse Engine 95, on Vermilyea Avenue in Upper Manhattan.

12:30 a.m.
Makes his first night stop with livery-cab drivers, in Upper Manhattan.

1:45 a.m.
Meets with nurses of Lutheran Hospital, in Brooklyn.

3 a.m.
Hosts moment of silence outside the Lincoln Houses a week after a young woman was shot outside the complex, in Upper Manhattan.

3:50 a.m.
Makes the second of two night stops with livery-cab drivers, in Queens.

4:30 a.m.
Meets with workers and tours the Schuster Meat Corporation, in the Bronx.

6 a.m.
Greets voters at the Brooklyn Terminal Market.

7:45 a.m.
Ends his epic 24-hour run by greeting morning commuters at the 125th Street subway stop at Lennox Avenue in Upper Manhattan.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

6:30 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard subway station, in Astoria, Queens.

11 a.m.
Starts out on the fourth leg of his five-mile walking tour of Roosevelt Avenue, at Delicias Calenas, a bakery and restaurant.

6:30 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at the Seaside Summer Concert Series, featuring the Go-Go’s and the Tom Tom Club, in Coney Island.

7 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

7 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens. [bl’

George T. McDonald
Republican

7 p.m.
Participates in the Concerned Citizens of Laurelton Candidates Debate, at the Linden Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Queens.

Readers with information about events involving the mayoral candidates are invited to send details and suggestions for coverage to cowan@nytimes.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @cowannyt.



A Lonely Bar in a Heat Wave

Dear Diary:

105 F in Manhattan
street-heat smells like
garbage

a pub looks good at
2 in the afternoon
cool, dark, empty

one soul sits

the Barmaid
cranes up to see an
already-played soccer game

conversation is long since past

I order a cold draft,
pretend interest in soccer

“I’ll be over there soon,”
the lone soul offers.

“Where?” I bite.
The barmaid looks down from her game.

“Ireland,” he says.

“No kidding.”

“You didn’t tell me that,” says the barmaid, like,
what’s the big secret?

“Well I ain’t too happy ’bout goin’.
21 people, 10 days,
tourin’ around in a bus.
I get carsick, you know?”

How’s this guy who likes to sit alone in a bar at 2 in the afternoon ever going to make it for 10 days with 21 people?

I want to tell him not to go.
I say, “What you gonna see?”

“Castles, green grass. The
Blarney stone, I guess.”

My look says:
You’ll go crazy.

The barmaid shakes her head,
still miffed he saved his big tell for a
stranger.

“I hear if you wear a blindfold
you won’t get carsick.”

Now he looks at me like
I’m crazy.

“Tour Ireland
wearing a blindfold?”

“Well - will you enjoy it if you’re sick?”

I pay for my cold beer,
wish him good luck,
her good bye

heads roll up to the soccer game

back to brick-oven streets, stained doorways
and overfilled trash, I think:
That conversation wasn’t so bad.

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New York Today: Before Weiner and Spitzer

New York Public Library

Updated, 6:31 a.m. | In New York City, this is the year of the disgraced politician seeking a second act.

But all the publicity about Anthony D. Weiner and Eliot Spitzer got us wondering: is this just a modern-day phenomenon?

Not exactly, according to our friends at the New York Public Library.

They pointed to an even more shocking scandal, the case of Representative Daniel E. Sickles of New York.

Sickles began serving in Congress in 1857. Two years later, he shot and killed his wife’s lover, Philip Barton Key II, across from the White House. (Key was the son of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”)

Sickles was jailed only briefly. He was acquitted of murder - by some accounts, after a defense of temporary insanity.

After finishing his term in Congress, he had a notorious tenure as a Union general in the Civil War.

At the Battle of Gettysburg, he disobeyed orders and many of his men were killed.

Let’s omit, for brevity’s sake, his many dalliances with prostitutes over the years.

Still, the public apparently forgave his trespasses: in the 1890s, he was elected to Congress again.

WEATHER

It couldn’t last forever. Rain and a high of 79 degrees, followed by heavier rain. Lose track of that umbrella? Better find it. Click for current forecast.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit [6:31] Delays on the E and F trains. Click for the latest status.

- Roads [6:31] Traffic moving well. Click for the latest status.

- Alternate side parking is in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

- William C. Thompson Jr. takes his mayoral campaign on a 24-hour, 21-stop tour to all five boroughs, including a meeting with cabdrivers in Queens at 3:50 a.m. Bill de Blasio appears on Huffington Post Live at 1 p.m.

-  The Go-Go’s and others play at 7:30 p.m. the Seaside Summer Concert Series at Coney Island. [Free]

- Do the Time Warp at the musical/comedy/horror classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at Tompkins Square Park at sundown. [Free]

- The Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader Johnny Ray brings his crew to Staten Island for a salsa music performance in Tappen Park at 7 p.m. [Free]

- Remember, it’s last call to submit photos of Hurricane Sandy to the Museum of the City of New York. Deadline is midnight.

- Sugary tunes from the Sixties will be sung by the 1910 Fruitgum Company in Astoria Park in Queens at 7:30 p.m. [Free]

IN THE NEWS

- Former Gov. George E. Pataki was cleared of liability in a suit by six sex offenders who claimed they were wrongly confined to psychiatric hospitals after completing prison sentences. [New York Times]

- A Health Department survey showed a 3 percent rise between 2002 and 2012 in the number of adults with type 2 diabetes in the city. There are at least 670,000 adults with the disease, an increase of 200,000 in the period of study. [NY 1]

- Anthony D. Weiner received a chilly reception at a campaign event in Queens on Wednesday. [New York Times]

- Eight T.G.I. Friday’s in New Jersey agreed to pay $500,000 for passing off cheap drinks as premium-label liquor, after an investigation proved the practice. [New York Times]

- The Bloomberg administration is calling for proposals to begin Seaport City, a $20 billion project to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding. [Associated Press]

- A virgin-cocktails bar opened in Dumbo. [DNAinfo]

- Teenagers will get a playground of their own in the new plans for the Hudson Yards development in Hell’s Kitchen. [DNAinfo]

AND FINALLY

Forget about summer movie screenings or classical music on the lawn. Tonight, you can witness a perfectly legal, knockdown fight.

“Rumble on the River,” a free, fighting exposition in Hudson River Park at West 44th Street, takes place at 7 p.m.

Fast and furious Muay Thai kickboxing is on the program.

Mona el-Naggar, E.C. Gogolak and Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.

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