Arts

His own job, he said, was to encourage and enable, clarify and refine, and not to dictate. He had ceased preplanning, or “blocking,” movement onstage as a young director in 1946, when...

An early scene in the new Broadway play “The Kite Runner” is mostly spoken in Dari, the Afghan dialect of Farsi, though the action depicts a distinctly American art form.“This town ain’t...

LONDON — Draped in a crisp white kimono and a translucent veil, Madama Butterfly kneels beside an American officer as they wed in a religious ceremony. The priest celebrates their nuptials while...

LVIV, Ukraine — Some morsels of news are so grim and absurd that they sound like they were conceived in the warped imagination of bored satirists. Like the headline from Belarus a...

(Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)New to Amazon Prime‘The Terminal List’ Season 1Starts streaming: July...

UNTIL JUSTICE BE DONE: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, by Kate Masur. (Norton, 496 pp., $20.) In this “cleareyed” and “revelatory” book, as the Times critic Jennifer...

This week, while some of the world’s top tennis players were in action at Wimbledon, and war continued to rage in Ukraine, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips held their traditional summer week of...

A new comedy by Steph Del Rosso starts as a satire of conservatives, then takes aim at progressives. Too bad the jokes barely cut either side.

Taron Egerton channeled a pop god in the Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” winning raves — and a Golden Globe — for his portrayal of how a shy piano prodigy blossomed into an...

Stephen Colbert referred to the court’s year of bold calls as “a real roller-coaster ride, in that I am nauseous and scared we’re all going to die.”“I’ve never personally performed a vasectomy,...