Arts

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...

Dear readers,When a friend forwarded some fresh ridiculous news about billionaires recently — you might have heard it’s a gangbusters time to be one — I scoffed the scoff of the comfortably...

Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and a longtime...

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube3. Johnny London: “Drivin’ Slow”Two years after the studio opened, Phillips launched his own label, Sun Records, out of the same building. Though Sun would...

In the trilogy’s second book, “Small World” (1984), Morris Zapp, a slick theoretician delivering a lecture at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the all-nude go-go bars of Berkeley,...

About every four years, Steve Kornacki becomes a reluctant internet celebrity.The comedian Leslie Jones has called him “the sexiest nerd on TV.” People magazine agrees. His go-to outfit — glasses, a white...

London theater keeps busy all year round, even during the supposed dog days of January, when other theater capitals are in the doldrums. Try telling that to the creatives who are keeping...

Video game graphics have become hyperrealistic over the past four decades. But in recent years, visual upgrades have had diminishing returns. The industry, which was hit with layoffs and studio closures this...