In Boyle Heights, there's a delicate balance to maintain - the city knows Boyle Heights residents are not interested in a threatening wave of gentrification. So a one-day "play street" plan …
The game - for instance, getting more money back on CVS cards, or figuring out which credit card to use in which specific situation - is infinite, and rigged. "It's not a zero-sum, winners-a…
Nora Fischer, the daughter of the conductor Ivan Fischer and the recorder player Anneke Boeke, is mixing pop, the blues, and classical music in her performances and albums. "Her affinity wit…
Her images (including one of her young daughter naked, sitting on a rock) often involved her children and her children's friends in odd and psychologically intense costumes, in the Australia…
Robbins, who directed and choreographed On the Town, The King and I, West Side Story, and many more classic musicals, returned to ballet fully in 1969 - and changed American ballet as well. …
Eudora Welty and Richard Ford will also be getting markers in a new series stretching across the state. Will Richard Wright make the cut? That's yet to be decided.
Hamill also sparked a massive movement of poets against the war with Iraq after being invited to a White House symposium in 2003. "He built a website to present the poems he received, and th…
Eleven movies, leading up to the newest Avengers show. A two-day movie marathon. "By the time Infinity War was on deck, 28 hours in, the excitement was palpable. When the 3D seemed to be mis…
How did the creative team of the Once on This Island revival make their set? They scouted in earthquake-ravaged, and rebuilding, Haiti.
The rock musical moved to Broadway in April 1968, and it quickly became an inescapable part of American culture. Readers share what the show means to them.
When the rock musical opened on Broadway in April 1968, our critic called it the first "in some time to have the authentic voice of today."
The production of this history play, by the Public Theater's Mobile Unit, is a provocative choice in a volatile political moment.
The Goodman Theater's five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel 2666 drew a stream of ardent fans of the Chilean novelist to Chicago i…
A trip to Haiti inspired the set, costumes " and animal actors " in the revival of this musical on Broadway.
"David Zwirner, whose namesake art gallery is one of the world's largest, said he was prepared to pay more for space rental at art fairs if the extra money could help smaller galleries take …
George C. Wolfe's entertaining production allows the large ensemble, including Mr. Washington, to charm one another and play to the crowd.
Believed to be the first woman to drive a taxi in New York City, she also overcame a speech impediment to work on Broadway, in film and on television.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
The Teatro Regio appointed a new superintendent, William Graziosi, this week, which means Mr. Noseda would have had to reapply to keep his post as music director, the position he has held si…
The Goodman Theater's five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel will be available for at least two years.
The South African soprano was astounded when her coaches in the young artist program at La Scala told her to study the role of Lucia de Lammermoor. "I could barely sing a high C," she says n…
Here are five highlights to see from "Birds: A Festival Inspired by Aristophanes," a citywide festival featuring a range of cultural events.
Condola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
He was among the founders of East West Players, a theater troupe that sought better roles for Asian-American actors and more representative stories.
The investigation did not find "systemic discrimination" that was known to, and tolerated by, senior management. The investigation also largely absolved Laura R. Walker, the president and ch…