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SPORTS: Pinstripes in the Park brings the Yankees to Bryant Park...televised, of course. Watch the team play the Orioles tonight live and on the big screen. Seating is on the lawn, so bring a blanket. There will be concession stands selling food and beer as well as former Yankees (Al Leiter, Graig Nettles, Bucky Dent and Mike Torrez) making appearances.

It’s fitting that the elegant revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical Sunday in the Park with George – currently at Studio 54 following an acclaimed London run – brings the latest advances in animation and digital projection to the stage. After all, the show takes as inspiration Georges Seurat and his 19th century masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which was itself informed by cutting-edge theories on color and optics, particularly the discovery that two juxtaposed colors could suggest a new color when seen from a distance. Hence Seurat’s famous depiction of a lazy French Sunday using innumerable colored dots, the style that came to be called pointillism.