The best way to watch “The Beatles: Get Back” is to take in as much in one go as possible, but if you don’t have…
View More 6 Big Beatles MomentsCategory: Culture & Traditions
Gen Z Pop Stars Made Their Mark in 2021. Beware, Millennial Forebears.
Upstarts including Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X, Chloe Bailey and the Kid Laroi grew up on the internet, admiring the artists who are now their…
View More Gen Z Pop Stars Made Their Mark in 2021. Beware, Millennial Forebears.How ‘2 Lizards’ and Meriem Bennani Captured the Essence of 2020
With the animated video series “2 Lizards,” Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki captured the essence of 2020. Now, Bennani’s at work on a documentary about…
View More How ‘2 Lizards’ and Meriem Bennani Captured the Essence of 2020U.K. Theatergoers Cover Up Again, After Months Without Masks
Encouragements to mask up are hardening into mandates. But the new rules are coming from the playhouses, not the government.Encouragements to mask up are hardening…
View More U.K. Theatergoers Cover Up Again, After Months Without MasksVadodara-based textile designer Medha Bhatt’s works of art using fabric discards tell stories that resonate with her clients
Each piece is a collage, created with hundreds of pieces of scraps of clothEach piece is a collage, created with hundreds of pieces of scraps…
View More Vadodara-based textile designer Medha Bhatt’s works of art using fabric discards tell stories that resonate with her clientsThe Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate
With the Steven Spielberg film coming soon, three critics, a playwright and a theater historian weigh in on whether the musical deserves a new hearing…
View More The Great ‘West Side Story’ DebateCherished Words From Sondheim, Theater’s Encourager-in-Chief
He wrote great shows, but Stephen Sondheim was also a mentor, a teacher and an audience regular. And, oh, the thrill of getting one of…
View More Cherished Words From Sondheim, Theater’s Encourager-in-ChiefMel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’
The comedy legend responsible for “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” has written a memoir with the cheer and zip of a one-liner.The comedy…
View More Mel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe
Alex Danchev’s biography of René Magritte portrays a subversive artist who had no interest in bohemian life.Alex Danchev’s biography of René Magritte portrays a subversive…
View More Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a PipeHas the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm?
In “Looking for the Good War,” the West Point scholar Elizabeth D. Samet argues that an idealized narrative of America’s actions in World War II…
View More Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm?