Arts

WASHINGTON — It is not easy to upstage the stars at an event whose headliners include U2, Gladys Knight and George Clooney. But one of the biggest ovations here at the Kennedy...

Ambitious theatrical stagingThe Belgian collective FC Bergman’s show “300 el x 50 el x 30 el” was incredibly intricate: A camera on a circular rail tracked what happened inside each dwelling of...

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Dec. 5 -11. Details and...

The choreographer Kyle Abraham knows how to make a playlist. His third work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, “Are You in Your Feelings?,” which had its premiere on Friday as part...

“The side of the street I was born on was Brooklyn, and the other side was Queens,” she added, “and so my address was Bernadette Mayer, 5914 Madison Street, Brooklyn-Queens, New York.”Home...

Though it did not have a Dave Chappelle monologue to polarize the discourse for days to come, this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” did what it could to generate some headlines: The host,...

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early 1970s used a self-deprecating and sexualized confessional style to create what is believed to be the first autobiographical work by a woman in underground comics —...

John graduated from high school in Puerto Rico, then returned to New York to attend Columbia. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science and international affairs in 1973 and a doctorate...

For years, Mitzi Perdue looked down at her hand and saw history.The emerald stone on her ring finger told a story stretching back nearly four centuries, to the sinking of a Spanish...

In the United States, none of the five large publishing houses currently fund these outlets. The infrastructure supporting national literary magazines is crumbling, too: There are fewer newsstands, fewer bookstores that stock...