Pop Royalty Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown
One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
January 21, 2022
Architecture’s Avant-Garde A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
What Color is Your Parachute? As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
January 14, 2022
Stars and Stripes For three decades, a zebra-patterned banquette at the El Morocco put you at the center of New York nightlife—as long as you were on the right side of the room
Born to Sing Verdi Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto
Blake Slatkin The young music producer has collaborated with Justin Bieber, the Kid LAROI, and Lil Nas X on top hits
Masters of Disguise Stéphan Gladieu’s enchanting photos explore a spiritual West African masquerade of epic proportions
Out of the Blue A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
Alexandre Assouline He grew up watching his parents turn a fledgling publishing company into a coffee-table-book sensation. Now he’s helping to run it
Behind Enemy Lines A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight
Theater Pick of the Week From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
December 17, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
December 16, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
December 16, 2021
Charge of the Minutemen Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour
