"The Race" by Seamus Heaney
"Who's that on his bike / Tears on cold cheeks."
"Who's that on his bike / Tears on cold cheeks."
The award-winning composer of "Fun Home" gave her Juilliard students a prompt for a song-writing assignment: "How do you view the world?"
The "Morning Show" actor strolls the theatre district, remembering his star turn in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing" and recalling the way Mike Nichols always joked that he was Jewish.
The actor's new memoir and documentary offer little real vulnerability. But there is undeniable fun in his tales of bad behavior.
Also: Long-running culture podcasts having a moment, David Byrne's art-rock palette, Robert Rauschenberg's photographs, and more.
Reporters were the undisputed heroes of such classics as "All the President's Men" and "Spotlight." A new crop of shows"and a growing number of real-life skeptics and detractors"paint a diff…
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris play friends who spar over almost everything.
Oliver Hermanus"whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor"recommends three books by queer writers who hid their sexualities.
The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children's Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, "Eternally Electric."
She possessed a mysterious charisma and a seemingly effortless sense of style. Both obscured her relentless, often painful search for meaning.
The New Yorker's poetry editor discusses his new collection of poems, and how the pandemic brought him to themes of grief, political outrage, and our susceptibility to hoaxes.
Also: Julio Torres's "Color Theories," Tiona Nekkia McClodden's paintings of bondage, Rachel Syme's stylish movie picks, and more.
A gifted cast elevates the poetic drama at the Shed.
The "Star Wars" actor, who appears in the new King adaptation "The Long Walk," digs into his favorite books by the prolific American author.
Matt Nadel's documentary short explores the moral complexities of buying the life-insurance policies of H.I.V.-positive gay men.
The countertenor searches for the right look to conjure Maria Callas for his starring role in the new production of "Galas."
Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.
The Czech composer energetically explored form after form.
Spy, murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day, the transgressive Elizabethan dramatist taps into the gravely comical troubles into which humans tumble.
A concert en plein air.
Wilco's front man on his forthcoming solo record"a triple album, but "whittled down from five," as he tells Amanda Petrusich. "I've made single records that feel longer."
The new "Office" spinoff is a love letter to newspapers"if not the reporting inside them.
Also: New York City Ballet and New York Philharmonic kick off their fall seasons, Nourished by Time brings "The Passionate Ones" to Irving Plaza, and more.
On the last day of carnival season, migrant workers keep the rides up and running for joyful kids, while they mourn lost time with their own families.
Tickets are now on sale for the three-day October event, which will feature Jon Stewart, Salman Rushdie, Demi Moore, Lina Khan, Lucy Dacus, Percival Everett, and more.