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“Project Hail Mary” and Lena Dunham’s memoir “Famesick” are part of a new wave of art works that boldly embrace sincerity over cynicism. Why are we suddenly so eager to wear our he…
Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.
In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prince’s new movie.
After years of skyrocketing fees and byzantine sales practices, a jury ruled against the company in an antitrust case. The effect on concert-going remains uncertain.
The plots of these shows usually center on a murder, which occurs not so much to end a human life as to inconvenience our star, who must postpone a brunch or a media event to conceal an inco…
Strolling through Hell's Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swaggering Mr. Zero in "The Adding Machine," Off Broadway.
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of "The Adding Machine," New York City Ballet's spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in "Mother Mary," and more.
Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that's smaller than their personalities.
Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for"and what new arrangements might replace it.
Gina Gionfriddo's zinger-filled sex farce and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's confounding musical are cathartic catnip.
The director's native city drives him crazy"and drives him to make loony, brilliant films.
When the two lead actresses in Shawn's play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself.
The screenwriter's latest film, "The Christophers," stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently p…
On the "Midnight Sun" tour, the Swedish artist makes a comeback that feels like a début.
It's not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words "my husband."
The author reads his story from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine.
The author discusses his story "A Private View."
The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, "Margo's Got Money Troubles," in which she stars as a single mom w…
Also: Raye's ambitious new album, Nathan Lane's Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem's seminal "Firebird," and more.
At Cherry Lane Theatre, the writer and the director of "You Got Older," starring Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman, dish on mortality, romantic angst, and the rapper Pitbull.
The New York Public Library's new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine?
To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest"his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma.
How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.
In Steven Soderbergh's film, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are superbly matched as two skilled painters who find their way from slippery deception to common ground.
Sidney Lumet's kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots.
