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Ahmaya Knoelle Higginson first appeared onstage before she was even born. Her mother, Vy Higginsen, a co-writer of the gospel musical “Mama, I Want to Sing!,” was pregnant with Higginson in 1983...

If “Past Lives” doesn’t grab the Golden Bear, the festival’s highest honor for a feature film, my pick would be “Tótem,” the second film from the Mexican director Lila Avilés (“The Chambermaid”),...

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also...

Mr. Whitlock wrote the words for that song and the chart-topping “Take My Breath Away,” central elements in the success of the hit 1986 movie.

Jimmy Warden wanted his bear to have its full 15 minutes of fame — while it was still alive.A few years back, Warden, a screenwriter, stumbled upon the tale of a 175-pound...

A veteran downtown choreographer known for his deft involvement of the audience — the playwright Young Jean Lee once called him “the expert in that field” — Moss builds slowly to the...

Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...

The music is also an amalgam, taking in the influence of Jewish cantillation, traditional choral styles, gospel, mariachi, pop, blues and 12-tone music. (It shares its eclecticism with the 1971 “Mass” by...

This article contains spoilers for the film “The Quiet Girl.”For the first 55 minutes of “The Quiet Girl,” the film’s audience does not know why the titular child has been sent to...

“You should be screaming out and ringing/like the alarm that you ignore,” Franklin J. Fisher declaims in “Irreversible Damage” on “Shook,” the explosive fourth album by his band, Algiers.Portents of apocalypse and...