6 Smart Comedy Specials for Labor Day Weekend
Ali Siddiq, Beth Stelling and Vir Das are among the stand-ups delivering engaging sets that are worth your time.
Ali Siddiq, Beth Stelling and Vir Das are among the stand-ups delivering engaging sets that are worth your time.
For "Caught Stealing," Darren Aronofsky needed a feline that could manage a New York City set and hit the necessary marks. Enter Tonic, a seasoned pro.
Smart and lovely to look at, this drama starring André Holland, and set in a changing Brooklyn, hints at a wisdom it doesn't quite deliver.
Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, the stars of "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," and the director Scott Cooper on capturing a haunted rock icon.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman star in a strangely bad remake of "The War of the Roses."
David Strathairn plays a Vietnam veteran who wants to shield his daughter-in-law from hard truths about her husband in this melodrama set in North Carolina.
In Salzburg, an anniversary of "The Sound of Music" looks grand through a child's eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.
After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.
Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of "Cabaret" in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, wrote a letter to the leader of the arts center complaining about "radical leftist ideologies in ballet."
The Down to Earth festival answers a pandemic-era call for changes in the performing arts, offering free events in city parks and urban spaces.
The book adaptation of the mystery series comes to Netflix, and Peacock airs the "Love Island USA" reunion.
A tempestuous new work by the choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber debuts at Little Island.
She later became a powerful solo artist in her own right, creating a dance trilogy steeped in myth and feminine archetypes.
An actor, director and playwright for La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, he later found an even more distinct role: curating its vast archive.
After spending years in behind-the-scenes roles on Broadway, he enjoyed a late career transformation to become an actor in films and on television.
He was frequently crammed into airport lockers, popcorn machines and grandfather clocks as Agent 13, the long-suffering spy.
The president of the arts center cited the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" as the type of programming that could be more broadly appealing to audiences.
His role in the dramatic HBO comedy "Somebody Somewhere" earned him his first Emmy nomination. It was also, more or less, his first major role.
In a world obsessed with rigid identities, the actor and rapper strives to let the stories he tells expand who he is.
The actress is luminous, alongside her look-alike brother Junior Nyong'o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, in Shakespeare's comedy at the newly revived Delacorte Theater.
Several theater productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including drama, comedy and musicals, deal with the effects of psychic pain.
"Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters," says the prizewinning playwright behind "Stereophonic," which is now up in London.
The choreographer Kim Brandt brings "Wayward," an expansive new dance, to Rockaway (the beach and the town) as this part of Beach Sessions.
The play, by David Auburn, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2001.