Arts

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...

Mel Shapiro, an award-winning theater director whose collaborations with the playwright John Guare included their critically acclaimed musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and the Off Broadway premiere...

Members of the American Historical Association, the country’s largest group of professional historians, approved a resolution on Sunday evening condemning Israel’s military action in Gaza. It argued that the destruction of most...

The bar wasn’t set very high for the Golden Globes on Sunday night. After last year’s host, Jo Koy, memorably bombed, the emcee this year, Nikki Glaser, could hardly do worse. But...

The 82nd Golden Globes spread the love on Sunday night, handing out trophies to a range of films and TV shows led by the movie “Emilia Pérez,” which took home four. The...

Jan. 5, 2025, 8:27 p.m. ETKieran Culkin, left, and Jesse Eisenberg portrayed cousins taking a heritage tour of Poland in “A Real Pain.”Credit...Searchlight Pictures, via Associated PressKieran Culkin earned his second Golden...

CARAMANICA At Coachella in 2023, you brought out José Feliciano. I wonder when you think of the Puerto Rican music of the ’70s and the ’80s, what do you hear in common...

PLAYWORLD, by Adam RossBefore “adulting,” there were grown-ups: a word even more squiggly, if you think about it, and one that in Adam Ross’s new novel, “Playworld,” takes on monstrous dimensions.As quite...

Richard Foreman, the relentlessly teasing, deliberately mysterious avant-garde playwright and impresario who founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, won a bookshelf full of Obie Awards and received a MacArthur fellowship in his late 50s,...

Jeff Baena, the director and screenwriter who co-wrote the dark comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” and who directed films including “Life After Beth” and “Horse Girl,” died on Friday at a residence in...