On a recent blustery afternoon, Jez Butterworth, whose extraordinary play, “The Ferryman,” opened, in November, on Broadway, after a sold-out run in London’s West End, sat with his hands cupped around a pint of Guinness, wearing a blue sweater, a Read More …

Click:cnc machining center Like all enchanted isles, the Academy Awards derives its magic from illusion. As I was leaving the Dolby Theatre late Sunday night, amid a swarm of women in gowns and men in tuxedos (and Billy Porter in Read More …

It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read “A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940,” by Iris Origo, which is being published this week by New York Review Books. And, if there ever is a Read More …

There was a period this fall when anyone who set foot in my apartment would have approximately thirty minutes before getting The Question. “Have you seen ‘The Shop?’ ” I would ask. I would go on to describe LeBron James’s new Read More …

Season 1 of “Homecoming” (Amazon) supplies two fine roles to Julia Roberts—or, rather, one superb role, that of the disappointed American hero Heidi Bergman, on two time lines. In the first, a conspiracy thriller, the younger Heidi wakes to the Read More …

As I write these words, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical-theatre television comedy starring and co-created by Rachel Bloom, is halfway through its final season. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” remains effervescent and lovable. In Season 4, Rebecca Bunch is mending torn relationships and deprogramming Read More …

Back in the nineteenth century, when many of the ballets that we think of as the backbone of the art were being made, there were composers who specialized in writing music for dance. When the French-born, St. Petersburg-based ballet master Read More …

In late September, I travelled to Indian Township, Maine, the largest of three Passamaquoddy reservations, for the tribe’s annual ceremonial-days festival. That far northeast, the state is all water-edged hills and long stretches of humanless, single-lane roads, and it was Read More …

Just a few weeks after its release, “Twerk,” by City Girls and featuring the superstar rapper Cardi B, entered Billboard’s Hot 100 in the ninety-second slot. The occasion marked a milestone for City Girls, a Florida-based duo made up of Read More …

There was no telling when or whether Lauryn Hill would show up to her own concert at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Monday night. Given her history of cancelling or arriving late, to buy a ticket to a Read More …