Arts

Broadway shows usually come with a back story about the yearslong slog it took to get them there. Not so with Heidi Schreck’s new translation of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” which arrived at...

The show, hosted by Nev Schulman and Kamie Crawford, begins its ninth season on MTV. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s soccer series on FX is back for Season 3.

A dozen or so lightbulbs — all hanging from the ceiling, at eye level with the cast — frame scenes in ingenious ways. For intimate conversations, characters frequently gather around a single...

When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of the stairsAnd all my cares just drift right...

Landing by helicopter at a women’s prison where the Vatican has mounted its pavilion for the Venice Biennale international art exhibition, Pope Francis on Sunday told the women incarcerated there that they...

Complex 20th-century scores like Stravinsky’s 1946 Symphony in Three Movements held no terrors for him. A 2022 recording with the BBC Philharmonic demonstrates his mastery of the work’s turbulent polyphony. When he...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.For years, David Marchese’s Talk column was one of the most popular features...

Dear readers,Not long ago at a book party (yes, they still exist), I fell into conversation with a well-known poet (they also still exist) who told me that, at her editor’s urging,...

Starter episode: “Raised to Present Well — Dr. Kate Truitt”As the name suggests, this series offers a variety of practical and problem-focused techniques that listeners can use in their daily lives, with...

The free expression organization PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival after a wave of participants withdrew, spurred by a boycott campaign led by writers who say the group’s response...