Arts
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‘Insecure’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 6: Dreams and Ghosts
Season 5, Episode 6: ‘Tired, Okay!?’ This week’s episode begins with a fever dream that ends with Issa recreating a viral meme. She is ...
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Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying.
Sara Bareilles and Jennifer Nettles have been friends for over a decade, and Nettles had long been itching to step into Bareilles’s musical ...
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Kiki and Herb Will Be Back Where They Belong for Christmas
Kiki and Herb, the glamorous and harrowing cabaret duo created by Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, never performed as reliably as the Radio ...
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Impromptu Sondheim Wakes Fill Piano Bars With Tears and Tunes
LaShonda Katrice Barnett had just finished a nice rooibos at a tea salon when she overheard some people at a nearby table. “They were all on ...
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Stream These 7 Productions That Celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s Work
Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist who died on Friday at age 91, had an unparalleled influence on contemporary theater. Revivals of two ...
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Get to Know Sondheim’s Best in These 10 Videos
Songs are there to serve the story and the show, Stephen Sondheim insisted. That’s not to say that his poignant duets, skittery patter songs and ...
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Alice Waters Helps a Museum Cater to the Tastes of Art Lovers
LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic shutdown, it has assembled a lineup of big names that it hopes will draw ...
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The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear
One of the greatest American composers, clearly the greatest lyricist — and, by virtue of those two rarely linked greatnesses, the essential ...
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Days Before Dying, Stephen Sondheim Reflects: ‘I’ve Been Lucky’
ROXBURY, Conn. — Stephen Sondheim stood by the gleaming piano in his study, surrounded by posters of international productions of his many famous ...
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On Their Small Shoulders Rest Some Big Films
Jude Hill, clad in a white button-up shirt with a cheeky grin, is just as charming in real life as he is in “Belfast,” Kenneth Branagh’s new ...