Arts

In 1978, Bob Fosse staged a tribute to his favorite art form with a largely plotless show called “Dancin’” that wound up running for more than four years.The show, with a mix...

Warren Beatty, the famed “Bonnie and Clyde” actor and Oscar-winning director, was accused in a lawsuit this week of sexually assaulting a girl in 1973 when she was 14 and 15.The suit,...

A picture-book version of CARMEN (Cuento de Luz, 36 pp., $18.95, ages 7 to 10), written by Margarita del Mazo, translated by Jon Brokenbow and illustrated by Concha Pasamar, leads us to...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG, by Bob DylanCome with me, and let’s stand in the rain of the clauses and sub-clauses in Bob Dylan’s devious new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.”Dylan...

Disease, dying and death are usually depicted as wretched or bloody onstage. We’re meant to cry or recoil.As you might guess from its title, though, “You Will Get Sick,” which opened on...

In novels, essays and literary criticism, she wrote about women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages. She also wrote six memoirs.

Draft up a list of today’s most inventive and respected players in the realm of what tends to be called improvised music (or creative music or free jazz) and you’ll inevitably name...

On the weekend before the 2022 midterm elections, “Saturday Night Live” turned to James Austin Johnson, its resident impersonator of President Biden, to assess how Democratic candidates might fare at the polls....

Aaron Carter, the singer and actor who briefly became a teenage sensation in the early 2000s and who was known for the hit song “I Want Candy,” was found dead on Saturday...

Dear readers,Being read aloud to is one of the activities I cherish most. It is a miniature version of what you might experience at a concert, a religious service or a sports...