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Andrew Fox, the creator of "Slam Frank," was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose.
"Hamnet," a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare's famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory?
When the young writer began analysis with Dr. Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact.
Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière's con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President.
Francisco Coll gives Ibsen's drama a stem-winder of a score.
The comedian's new HBO series is full of characters who possess their own sparks of madness.
The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.
The writer-director talks about the art of dialogue, his love of marital fight scenes, and how his new film, "Jay Kelly," helped him rekindle his affection for the medium.
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
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"Coyote," a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.
The man who's been called "America's hardest-working nerd" joins Tyler Foggatt live onstage at The New Yorker Festival.
In 1997, scientists and bureaucrats gathered in Japan to talk about greenhouse-gas emissions. At Lincoln Center, a group of actors rehash all the drama"in front of the original negotiators.
After the rapper's 1979 hit "Christmas Rappin'," his song "The Breaks" was the first rap single to go gold. Now he's embracing the good ole days with a "Legends of Hip-Hop" concert.
The new sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist can agree on.
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata's film is set in a dystopian version of Paris where kissing is forbidden and purchases are made through small acts of violence.
In Chloé Zhao's film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece.
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In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
Mascha Schilinski's dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse.
Jad Abumrad's new podcast, "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man," shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.
Perfectly ridiculous.
The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
The actress stars in "Meet the Cartozians," a new play about an Armenian family of reality-TV stars who are suspiciously similar to the Kardashians.
