Arts

Chickie Donohue, 81, has been telling saloon stories since his teens, but there’s one he no longer has to tell.It is about his preposterously unlikely trip to Vietnam in 1967 to bring...

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies...

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, Sept. 26-Oct. 2. Details and...

With its something-for-everyone ethos, the Fall for Dance festival, nearly 20 years old, continues to pack the house at New York City Center and two-plus years of a pandemic have made no...

When Joseph Stalin gives your opera a scathing review in Pravda, history is bound to find a spot for you.Such was the case for Dmitri Shostakovich, whose “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” has...

Louise Fletcher, the imposing, steely-eyed actress who won an Academy Award for her role as the tyrannical Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died on Friday at her home...

When the author returned to the draft of “The Furrows” after five years away from it, she had a new experience of grief — her mother’s death — to contend with.“When my...

In 1665, Johannes Vermeer dabbed the last drop of paint onto a canvas in his Dutch studio, completing his masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”On an April day 357 years later, Janine...

THE DOOR OF NO RETURN, by Kwame AlexanderBehind the seemingly straightforward details of history in Kwame Alexander’s new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return” — the first book in a trilogy following...

“I don’t know, that doesn’t sound like the Donald Trump I know,” Jimmy Kimmel joked.“And it’s no surprise — the president is known for inflated assets.” — STEPHEN COLBERT“You can tell Trump...