Arts

The first scripted performance in colonial America took place in a Virginia tavern on Aug. 27, 1665. Not a line of it remains, not a character name, not a whisper of plot....

When the Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced in 2018 that he had successfully taken human embryos with genetically edited DNA and implanted them in a woman’s uterus, it sparked international controversy among...

Ariel is officially part of the human world.“The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 Disney animated movie that revolves around a rebellious teenage mermaid fascinated by life on land, is among the motion pictures...

A sought-after character actor for decades, he worked frequently with James Garner. He also wrote and directed.

For “Pelosi in the House,” the documentarian Alexandra Pelosi had what is surely unprecedented access to film her mother, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But that didn’t necessarily make things easy. “You’re a...

After 75 years of ceremonies in New York’s theater district, the Tony Awards next year will move uptown, holding the annual best-of-Broadway awards ceremony in Washington Heights.Tony Awards administrators made the surprise...

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he wanted to clear out American storage of works that had been seized in the postwar era. A 1967 act of Congress allowed for...

But those fixes, however successful, are also compromises. The Bel Air house, fairly hideous and mostly blank to allow for its transformations, necessitates a lot of choral furniture-handling that works against the...

They entered the northeast corner of Central Park one night in 1989 and were later falsely prosecuted for the brutal attack and rape of a woman who was jogging. Now five Black...

In the opening moments of the HBO documentary series “Branson,” Richard Branson looks into the camera to say goodbye.“It’s always strange recording something when you’re alive and healthy,” he said, “knowing the...