Entertainment

‘A Knight’s Tale’ (Aug. 31)Another period musical, this one from the writer and director Brian Helgeland (an Oscar winner for co-writing the “L.A. Confidential” screenplay), takes a similar swing-for-the-fences approach, scoring its...

Dear listeners,Happy August. It’s the month of out-of-office auto replies, finally breaking heat waves, and — if the songs about August are to believed, anyway — waning summer romances.After an especially brutal...

After the enormous risk of its beginning, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany was for a long time a place where the stagings of Richard Wagner’s operas were encased in amber.When his four-opera...

It was March 2020, and David Hallberg, who had weathered more than two years of injury and physical rehabilitation, was back in the saddle, rehearsing “Swan Lake” with Natalia Osipova at the...

Pee-wee Herman was noisy. He was boisterous. He had a voice that would shoot up several decibels without warning, whether he was inviting his TV viewers to play a game of connect...

I’m mobbing through Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the back of a cab, listening to Lady Wray’s “Piece of Me” for the 12th time in a row, and I’m crying — very, very hard...

In recent years, Irish novelists, and particularly Irish women novelists, have published some of the most compelling English-language literary fiction.Not just Sally Rooney, whose three novels to date have sold millions of...

A POCKETFUL OF HAPPINESS, by Richard E. GrantRichard E. Grant is a wonderful actor and, it seems, a rather wonderful (goofy, talented, loving) man. His new memoir, written in diary form, is...

Some writers go to the ends of the earth in pursuit of a great story. Susan Casey went to the bottom of the ocean.While researching her new book, “The Underworld,” about the...

‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ (1985)Rent or buy it on most major platforms.This films may well be one of the most extravagantly weird comedies of the 1980s — and possibly ever. A breakthrough for...