Some plays are bouillabaisses, crammed with everything a playwright can put in the pot. Even if it means splattering the stovetop, these stories are going to boil. Other plays are perfectly calibrated consommés. Refined and subtle, they shine at a simmer. The Broadway transfer of Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which opened on Thursday at the Todd … Read more
The road to the Oscars officially started today with the announcement of the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. Among the closely watched categories, particularly in the world of fashion, will be costume design, which offers a vast variety among the five nominated films. The nominees took their audiences on voyages to the magical world … Read more
Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art, who came to national prominence in 2022 after paintings he was exhibiting as the lost work of Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized by the F.B.I. as fakes, died on Saturday in Orlando. He was 59. Kathryn Lee De Groft, his wife of 34 years, … Read more
In theory we don’t play favorites among the books we recommend here — we love all our children equally, there’s something for everyone, et cetera — but indulge me this week in my particular affection for Maria Zoccola’s nifty debut poetry collection, “Helen of Troy, 1993.” By transferring the basic outlines of Helen’s story to … Read more
“If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.” That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in “Famehungry,” a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an entertainer in the digital age. Presented before a live crowd, it is also simultaneously livestreamed on the app. In Wednesday’s show, Orwin performed tasks inspired … Read more
“Lovers Anonymous” is an eight-episode Turkish dramedy about the “disease of love” — treatable at the Love Hospital, thank goodness, under the dedicated care of specialists. Though perhaps the cure isn’t all that wonderful. The show (in Turkish, with subtitles, or dubbed), available on Netflix, centers on Cem (Halit Ergenc), the embittered genius behind the … Read more
The movie trailer hit heavy rotation on N.F.L. playoff broadcasts and elsewhere earlier this month. A pilot played by Mark Wahlberg is flying a federal agent and a government witness in a tiny airplane. But the pilot, it seems, is actually a hit man sent to kill the witness. Chaos ensues. “You don’t watch it,” … Read more
The Tchaikovsky showcased the formidable discipline of the Chicago sound under Muti, with the orchestra’s famous brass section gleaming in the fearsome fanfares that function as the fate motif anchoring the symphony. Here, too, Muti’s attention often went to subsidiary voices. In a transitional moment during the first movement, he brought the chugging rhythmic figures … Read more
The ballerina Ashley Bouder will retire next month after a 25-year career with New York City Ballet, including 20 years as a principal dancer, the company announced on Wednesday. “It’s a little surreal,” Bouder said in an interview. “I’m kind of up and down about it. I’m excited to do it, and to see what … Read more
With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir. Source link