Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes
Once upon a time, Regina Comet was a pop star who filled arenas. Now that her career desperately needs a...
Once upon a time, Regina Comet was a pop star who filled arenas. Now that her career desperately needs a...
Charles W. Mills, a London-born, Jamaican-raised philosopher whose incisive criticism of liberalism and race both foreshadowed and framed contemporary debates...
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Well. We have already heard mention of a “mysterious respiratory illness.” And then Cory spots an item on the news...
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Like Franzen himself at times, in the public arena if not on the page, Russ is so intolerable and so...
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“The Inheritance,” the sprawling two-part play about gay culture in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, won the Tony Award...
Best: Obviously, Jennifer HollidayThere were lots of great numbers during the first half of the Tonys, and even a few...
Estrella has long, wavy, jet-back hair. She tries to tame it with a thick-toothed comb in the backyard of her...
Want a break from prestige TV for an evening? Good news: An important 20th-century American opera is newly available to...
“Slave Play,” the buzzy and provocative drama that was nominated for 12 Tony Awards but won none, will return to...
“Jagged” won for best book, by Diablo Cody, and for best featured actress, Lauren Patten, who electrifies audiences with her...
For Taylor, it means setting up a pot-centric business meeting with the disgraced former banker Lawrence Boyd (a returning Eric...
The Tony Awards are taking place right now at the Winter Garden Theater. The awards show, delayed more than a...
It’s been a long, long time since Broadway last held a Tony Awards ceremony.Tonight, after a 27-month hiatus, the event...
Tonight, after a 27-month hiatus, the event honoring Broadway’s best plays and musicals is back.There will be plenty of awards...
To make a dance to some of Handel’s “Water Music” and title it simply “Water” is just the kind of...
Jay Sandrich, a prolific sitcom director who won Emmy Awards for the two series he worked on most often, “The...
As a spirited impresario of public relations, he promoted entertainers, films and the “I Love New York” tourism campaign. Source...
Though Broadway shows are returning, opening and starting previews, audiences — and companies — will never be the same.The community...
“We wanted to preserve history.” Eduard Kurayev was talking about Berd Vay’e, the business that he and Albert Akbashev, a...
The awards ceremony will honor plays and musicals that opened during a pandemic-shortened eligibility period — from April 26, 2019,...
“The thing is, all those guys, they all took their careers very seriously,” Harris said. To some extent, his father...
George Mraz, a sought-after jazz bassist whose deft, versatile work anchored the recordings and performances of generations of artists, from...
A 3,500-year-old clay tablet inscribed with a portion of one of mankind’s oldest epics was handed over to the Iraqi...
Costanzo also dazzles in solos that showcase his rich yet delicate voice, which glints and swoops like intricately painted blown...
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When I was in graduate school in Manhattan, my friend Bernard and I went to the opera without eating supper.Bernard...
Anita Hill still speaks in the measured tones she did while being questioned before an all-white, all-male panel before the...
“Jeopardy!” has another seemingly unstoppable sensation.On Friday, Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Yale, won his 28th...
The Final Fantasy games have an interactive, role-player format, which immerses gamers in the journeys of its heroic protagonists. These...
Charles G. Sellers, a historian whose work on early-19th-century America helped overturn the postwar consensus that democracy and capitalism developed...
DENVER — Meow Wolf trades on the dark side of American popular culture, in cults and conspiracies, in supernatural beings,...
BASEL, Switzerland — Psychologists call it the “mere exposure effect”: Humans like what they already know, whether people, places, products...
Welcome. You know those albums or songs that you so profoundly associate with a moment in your life that just...
Thubron’s latest, “The Amur River: Between Russia and China,” is hence not entirely new territory for him. Though the Amur,...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to ListenThe Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy’s new book, “Say It...
Past presidents and soon-to-be presidents have long written for the Book Review — Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy....
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A three-judge panel in the Netherlands on Friday found a man guilty of stealing paintings by van Gogh and Frans...
He had impeccable credentials. No one disputes that.Dirk Obbink was an esteemed lecturer at the University of Oxford. He had...
Roger Michell, the British theater and film director best known for “Notting Hill,” the wildly popular 1999 romantic comedy that...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “I’m the conjurer of all my ancestors, 400 years of African people in America,” said Joe Minter,...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “I’m the conjurer of all my ancestors, 400 years of African people in America,” said Joe Minter,...
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From there — as if growing out of that single impurity — dialogue, dreams and hallucinations proliferate. (Labatut’s imagination may...
MAGIC LESSONS, by Alice Hoffman. (Simon & Schuster, 416 pp., $17.) “Hoffman’s book swept me away during a time I...
Bright New WorldTo the Editor: On Brandon Taylor’s review of Sally Rooney’s third novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You” (Sept....
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets...
The science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once decreed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. At the core...
Gira Sarabhai, an architect, designer, curator and historian who helped establish some of the most important design institutions in postcolonial...