Music

It’s possible to go from zero singing experience to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. I can tell you, because I just did it.As a longtime audience member, I’ve always been intrigued...

Joyce Bryant, a sultry singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs and raised the hackles of radio censors before setting aside her show business career in favor...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon MusicWas the past year defined by Beyoncé’s “Renaissance,” a nostalgia-minded tour of club music from the recent past as well as the...

“KPOP,” a new Broadway musical both celebrating and exploring the wildly popular Korean music genre, will close on Sunday, just two weeks after opening.The producers had hoped that the large and youthful...

8. Chloe Moriondo, ‘Fruity’“Fruity,” like the best hyperpop, is an anarchic affront to refinement and restraint, an ever-escalating blast of melodic delirium and warped excess. It’s a sugar rush, it’s brain-freeze-inducing, it’s...

The hosts of “Still Processing” on the undoing of Kanye West.

“Stomp,” the long-running show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal garbage can lids to create a gritty percussive stage spectacle, will close in New York on Jan. 8, the show...

Inevitably, too, “The McCartney Legacy” is a graveyard of the once-robust music print press: Melody Maker, Disc, NME — “Enemy!” McCartney once exclaimed. His jousts with journalists give the book some of...

I never venture too far from a theater, but when I did have some time away from New York stages, I was watching TV and movies. In so many of my favorites...

A man who shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker during a violent robbery last year during which two of the singer’s French bulldogs were stolen was sentenced on Monday to 21 years in...