The stars of “Giant,” “Fallen Angels,” “The Rocky Horror Show,” “Ragtime” and more prove they’ll go to great lengths to be believable in a role. Read more ...
By Dana Scruggs, Michael Paulson, Alexis Soloski, Nicole Herrington, Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster
A look inside Dataland in Los Angeles, dedicated entirely to A.I.-generated art. Refik Anadol, its founder, says it’s for human dreamers. Will critics be convinced? Read more ...
The painting resurfaced in 2024 and a woman contends in her lawsuit that the work is a portrait of her great-aunt that vanished after the Nazi takeover of Austria. Read more ...
The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration made soon after July 4, 1776. Read more ...
The confusion surrounding the concerts planned for the National Mall highlights the partisan tensions around national celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary. Read more ...
“We are skewering a value system,” the creator Jonathan Tropper said of the series. “But at the same time, we’re making the show aspirational.” Read more ...
Morgan Bassichis, whose solo show “Can I Be Frank?” resurrects an act by Frank Maya, joins others this season who are recreating the works of deceased artists. Read more ...
His best-known works were large, airy tangles that suggested tumbleweeds, nests or tulle. If a window was open, they might sway in the breeze. Read more ...
He had never produced a performance when he was hired as the company’s general director in 1983. But over 31 years (and lots of Wagner) he became beloved. Read more ...
Rébecca Chaillon’s latest show tackles social stigma by featuring only performers she describes as “fat” — a label she also applies to herself. Read more ...
The Bronx-born superstar and the British comedian, who star together in the Netflix comedy “Office Romance,” have more in common than you think. Read more ...
“One thing we know for sure is that Trump is definitely obsessed with size,” Seth Meyers said of the president’s bragging about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Read more ...
The sixth installment of this low-grade franchise takes a predictable and dismaying turn, even if it feels like the right time to bring the series back. Read more ...
This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich files a dispatch from Los Angeles covering Charles Ray’s strangely lifelike sculptures, James Harrison’s flowers and a group show! (Exclamation point will make sense). Read more ...
On Thursday, Fred Rogers Productions started a channel dedicated to the beloved children’s host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations. Read more ...
The center’s general counsel also said that a federal judge’s order meant the president’s name must be taken off outdoor and indoor signage by June 12. Read more ...
Nastassja Kinski was 13 years old when she was shown topless in the 1975 film “Wrong Move.” “I could already tell that wasn’t right,” she told a German newspaper. Read more ...
He quit singing in his early 20s when opera companies objected to his appearance, but after a 12-year absence he revived his career to acclaim. Read more ...
He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author’s most famous works. Read more ...
Vintage ball gowns, potbellied fat suits and diaphanous tunics were among the offerings when the Paris Opera held a public sale of opera and ballet costumes. Read more ...
In his first major solo survey on Long Island, the artist explores his connection to the East End’s natural environment and culture in textile works, prints, sculptures and installations. Read more ...
The stars Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf talk with the show’s director, Joe Mantello, about the exhilaration of collaborating and the trap of sentimentality. Read more ...
All over the world, voyagers are descending, legally and not, into the lower depths. This documentary offers a frustratingly abbreviated look at three of them. Read more ...
“Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural” at the Museum of the City of New York brings together 16 panels of the only surviving W.P.A. mural from a hospital children’s ward. Read more ...
With “Proof of Light,” Kiyon Ross wants to make his alma mater, the School of American Ballet, proud — and the dancers feel special. That’s what he would have wanted. Read more ...
Michael Kosta wasn’t impressed to see that the L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt “got a second-season pickup” after Tuesday’s midterms. Read more ...
The nonprofit Second Stage Theater said it would present a reimagined version of “The Fantasticks” and the Pulitzer finalist “Gloria” at the Helen Hayes Theater. Read more ...
A music executive with longstanding ties to the Jackson family, he worked to make Janet a star and Michael a posthumous commercial powerhouse. Read more ...
Caissie Levy was Broadway’s first Elsa. She starred in “Hair” and “Ghost.” And now, for “Ragtime,” she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award. Read more ...
The artists want their names removed from a public vote to decide the best artist and pavilion, awards that are usually decided by a jury of experts. Read more ...
Two queer friends dreamed of raising a child together. They almost made it real. Read more ...
By Anna Martin, Reva Goldberg, Davis Land, Sara Curtis, Elisa Gutierrez, Lynn Levy, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Pat McCusker
The arts school and camp is still contending with the fallout from its former ties to Mr. Epstein, an alumnus and donor accused of preying on two girls he met there. Read more ...
The league is rolling out music by the composer Nicholas Britell and the rapper Nas that, if successful, could become the sport’s sonic shorthand. Read more ...
Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song primer on his enduring legacy. Read more ...
Scottish Ballet realized it needed to make its nation’s history a bit more explicit to take its “Mary, Queen of Scots” on the road. It comes to Lincoln Center this week. Read more ...
