Fall Theatre Preview
On Broadway, there's the gem-size "The Band's Visit" and the star-studded "Meteor Shower." Off Broadway, old is new with "Measure for Measure."
On Broadway, there's the gem-size "The Band's Visit" and the star-studded "Meteor Shower." Off Broadway, old is new with "Measure for Measure."
The New Yorker's film critics Anthony Lane and Richard Brody offer quick takes on current theatrical releases, like "Detroit," "Whose Streets?," and "Columbus."
Matthew Trammell on the band Secret Mall, which has recently put out its first EP, "YeEP."
Richard Brody and Anthony Lane offer quick takes on current theatrical releases, including "Dunkirk," "Girls Trip," "Columbus," "Lady Macbeth," and more.
Recommendations on current films, including "Dunkirk," "Girls Trip," "Lady Macbeth," "Person to Person," and "War for the Planet of the Apes."
Michael Schulman on the new permanent Jim Henson exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens.
David Cantwell on the country musician Merle Haggard, who died in 2016, and the brevity of musical influence.
Suddenly, after a hundred and fifty years of "Who the hell cares?," Canada is hot. O.K., granted, "Come from Away" just copped a Tony"but what about all the Canadian shows that have bombed o…
Richard Brody and Anthony Lane offer quick takes on current theatrical releases, including "Girls Trip," "Lady Macbeth," "Spider-Man: Homecoming," and "The Big Sick."
Mike Twohy's Daily Cartoon shows a jester in a royal court.
Cullen Crawford imagines the humorous records of a maintenance worker caring for the Donald Trump animatron at Disney World.
Richard Brody recommends five films to stream this weekend, such as "American Gigolo," starring Richard Gere, which is available on HBO Go.
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical draws out what's scary and silly about America's armed malcontents.
For the past ten years, a pseudonymous blogger has been writing Vanishing New York, chronicling the demises of beloved spots. Now he's ready to unmask himself.
Who says that theatre can't cause a ruckus? On Sunday, as CBS was teasing "Broadway's biggest night," controversy was engulfing the Public Theatre's production of "Julius Caesar," at Shakesp…
Over the years, Lacombe has captured such iconic performers as Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, and Madonna (during the singer's volatile marriage to Sean Penn).
Actors are, by definition, an exhibitionist bunch. But they can also be deeply protective of a process that requires them to dive inside themselves before resurfacing with pearls of performa…
Best Direction by a Woman"Just Kidding, This Category Will Be Replaced by a Montage from "Annie II: Hip-Hop Don't Stop (Singing About 2morrow) Featuring D.J. Daddy Big Buckz"
The stage of the Delacorte Theatre, in Central Park, was glistening on Monday evening with what remained of an earlier rainfall, while the sky overhead was heavy and gray. These were not the…
On Sunday, just hours after three men launched an assault on London Bridge, British Prime Minister Theresa May stepped in front of 10 Downing Street and told the world, "We believe …
The sculptor Joy Brown creates enormous bronze humanoid figures, and, on a recent Monday night, nine of them arrived in the city on flatbed trucks, to be installed on the Upper West Side. Th…
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