Entertainment

Funny place, the music business — it devours the young and ignores the old. Or at least that’s how it may appear. Aside from a handful of entrenched executives and a circuit...

On a stormy day more than 34,000 feet above Paris, Air France Flight 1205 prepared to make its descent. Flight attendants began checking seat backs and tray tables, and passengers groggily emerged...

It is a maxim of orchestra management that when you hire a new music director, you should immediately start looking for the next one.Gustavo Dudamel arrives this fall as the New York...

“‘Darknoon’ has always been there,” confides 17-year-old Apolline (Lila Gueneau) as “Eat the Night” opens. She’s talking about the video game that she and her older brother, Pablo (Théo Cholbi), a small-time...

For most people in the movie industry, getting an Oscar nomination is a rare honor. For the songwriter Diane Warren, it’s like going outside to pick up the mail.Over the past four...

When the Scottish playwright David Harrower set out to script a TV adaptation of “The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice” — Jim Swire’s skeptical book laying out who he believed...

‘Grandiloquent’Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org.Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other...

The trailer for Netflix’s ultraviolent series “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s really nothing new under the Western sun.The series, which...

The Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio shot “Oceans Are the Real Continents” in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with a cast of nonactors playing like-named characters they had a hand in shaping....

“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” Marilyn Monroe cooed, but most of us have to settle for rhinestones. That’s long been true of Shelly, the title character played by Pamela Anderson in...