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A drone video shot in a Minneapolis bowling alley was hailed as an instant classic. One Hollywood veteran said it "adds to the language and vocabulary of cinema."
Chocolate fountains, Debbie Harry and an artist's swan song cut short. We gathered scenes from the New York City cultural landscape in the last moments before lockdown.
What has this year been like for the most voracious of culture vultures? A super fan in Chicago lets us into his life without the arts.
With British venues closed and years advancing, there's even less time to see some of the finest actors in their 80s onstage.
Renée Fleming, Michelle Wolf, Kelsey Lu and the New York Philharmonic will perform in April for limited audiences.
The production, which examines the work's colonial legacy, opened after the far right accused the Paris Opera of "antiracism gone mad."
It should be the most diverse Oscar lineup in ages, and history may be made in the best-director category. Still, expect some snubs and controversies.
An uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
An elite male principal. A veteran ballerina. A rising apprentice. Three dancers talk about life and work during the pandemic.
Dozens of international film productions have been lured to the country, where cases of the coronavirus are few. In turn, actors have found almost paradise.
A critic writes a plea to the film and TV stars who got their starts in the theater and can do more to aid its rescue.
As the entertainment industry collapsed during the pandemic, several major health plans made it harder to qualify for insurance. Thousands lost it.
The slate of commissioned works for reduced capacity audiences involves the artists Bill T. Jones, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson.
An audio adaptation of the celebrated novel has no live actors and was a pandemic hit in London. In New York it will play to 50 people per show.
Crowds can be mindless, even dangerous. But that feeling of losing yourself as you experience art together hasn't been replicated since live entertainment went online.
Lauren Lovette, the New York City Ballet principal, is retiring from the company but not from dance.
Check in with "Frozen," "Come From Away," "Moulin Rouge!" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in Offstage, our digital series about theater during the pandemic.
Adaptations of "Happy Days" and "First Love," works by the master of existential wheel-spinning, show us how to live in place.
A creative team has not yet been set for the proposed show, which would be based on the 1983 novel that spawned the hit streaming series.
For the first time in almost a year, New Yorkers were allowed in front of the big screen again. There were reminders of the pandemic everywhere, but many moviegoers were undeterred.
The pandemic has dampened the celebrations worldwide. But a Times special project, which includes an interactive music mixing feature, lets readers get into a party mood.
He was an unknown playwright in his 20s when his comic drama about a priest and a seminarian drew raves off and on Broadway. It was turned into a movie.
With performances on pause, many dancers are rethinking their relationship to weight.
He took his British brand of satire to nightclubs, TV, film ("Spinal Tap") and National Lampoon. But a memoir led to a sex-abuse accusation.
People from across the continent told us about the ups and downs " mostly downs " of loving and streaming theater during a pandemic.
