When the Cleveland Orchestra brought Mahler’s Fifth Symphony to Carnegie Hall in 2019, its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, lowered his baton and paused before the Scherzo.An unassuming young man walked from the horn...
Read moreThe Broadway season that just ended, the first since the pandemic shutdown, will be remembered for many reasons — the persistence of Covid, the death of Stephen Sondheim, the dwindled tourism and...
Read moreThe fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is a terrific host, but this production at the Guggenheim Museum is awfully shaggy for an avian story, our critic writes.
Read more“Dancer” was released the same year as Kramer’s brazen satire, “Faggots”; both were cautionary tales about the moth-to-flame nature of gay nightlife, and both reach their climax on Fire Island. But where...
Read moreAs this origin story suggests, the heart of this book resides in the friendship among the four women and the ways they supported and influenced one another. Anscombe, the most brilliant and...
Read moreSince his first feature, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” in 1988, the British writer and director Terence Davies has made a handful of films that can be described — owing to their emotional...
Read moreDear Readers,The other night I watched “Game 6,” a movie written by Don DeLillo and released in 2006. It features Robert Downey Jr. as a theater critic named Steven Schwimmer who goes...
Read moreTHE SUMMER FRIENDA MemoirBy Charles McGrathWhen I was a kid, my family wasn’t big on vacations. Money was tight, and we mostly limited ourselves to day trips, all five of us packed...
Read morePaul Gunther, an impassioned and trenchant champion of the arts and architecture in New York’s nonprofit preservation organizations, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 65.His death, in a hospital, was confirmed...
Read moreKimberly Burr testified Friday that she was 14 years old when Bill Cosby invited her into his trailer on a film set in Los Angeles in 1975 and started kissing her.Ms. Burr...
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