More than six years after the right-wing extremist set off a car bomb in Oslo that killed eight people and shot 69 more to death at a summer youth camp, "[Erik] Poppe, one of Norway's best-k…
The Damon Runyon adaptation from The Actors Company Theater could use more of his snap, crackle and pop.
"The Civil War memorial secretary was widely embraced as a folk art treasure. Fashioned from walnut, maple and oak, it was said to have been created circa 1876 to honor John Bingham, a Union…
"Working largely out of the artistic limelight at her home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., Ms. Stein resurrected historical weaving techniques and merged them with 20th-century Bauhaus design sen…
The playwright and actress recalls making an unexpected friendship in a Baltimore high school in the early 1960s, and feeling less invisible.
In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, all it takes to turn a liberal into a martyr is a deferment from Yale.
This ensemble piece from the Baxter Theater Center of Cape Town traces the exhilaration and ache of group activism.
The British playwright, 31, took the $25,000 annual award for her work about three generations of women afflicted by mental illness.
An impresario known for his ceremonies at Olympic Games is recreating one of the world's great masterpieces. Will the spectacle appeal to tourists and Romans?
For more than 270 performances in 1961 and 1962, the face that Henry Higgins grew accustomed to was Margot Moser's. She was the first American to play Eliza Doolittle regularly on Broadway.
Jeremy J. Kamps's play " a smart but overloaded riff on "The Cherry Orchard" set on a family farm " doesn't quite hit the right accent.
The poet won praise everywhere. "Stanley Kunitz once praised her 'brilliant nervosity' and 'taste for the fantastic.' Tracy K. Smith, the current United States poet laureate, who was a stude…
An episode that included a debate on athletes kneeling during the national anthem was shelved before it aired.
The Liverpool Museums have created about 40 suitcases full of mementos that help people with declining memory and function regain some understanding of the world around them. "Themes include…
Her new documentary for HBO confronts the complicated legacy of Arthur Miller, who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and married Marilyn Monroe.
That's right, it's Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Do we need to explain? Well: "What started as a response to a Trump presidency now seems to speak to our times in many ways, with a plot that …
Virtual reality museums are almost too real - and new tools to make the art look 3D, plus some collectors eager to share their own work with people at a great remove, mean that anyone with a…
The voice is a fragile thing, and few singers end up with 50-year careers at the Metropolitan Opera. The bass Paul Plishka is one of them.
"Under terms of a proposed deal, which is not yet final, Netflix would pay Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, for exclusive content that would be available only on the streaming service, whic…
NBC's "Rise," isn't "Glee" and it isn't "Fame." "The mantra is to always keep it as realistic and honest as possible," said its showrunner, Jason Katims.
The play, about a divisive antihero and whistle-blower, has no good guys, and a town tragically divided by politics.
"Mr. Taylor turns 88 this year. What is it like to be in this company with a modern master in the twilight of his life?" Michael Trusnovec, Laura Halzack, Alex Clayton, Parisa Khobdeh, and M…
"Later this year, Mitzi Angel, 43, the publisher of Faber & Faber in London, will join FSG as its new publisher and senior vice president," replacing Jonathan Galassi, who spent 20 years…
Thanks to the skillful portraits and drawings he made for guards, officers, and commandants, he survived seven different concentration camps, and ultimately received a scholarship to study a…
David Rabe's dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.