Masters of Disguise
Stéphan Gladieu’s enchanting photos explore a spiritual West African masquerade of epic proportions
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
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
Bowie’s Back
A never-before-released David Bowie album hits the airwaves
I Do! I Do!
Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas
What Color is Your Parachute?
As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
Architecture’s Avant-Garde
A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants
Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
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
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden age, and a film for our times
When the Cat’s Away …
The mice run wild in Ben Jonson’s knockabout sitcom The Alchemist
Steve Schapiro Brought the Laughs
A fixture on the Hollywood circuit, Schapiro photographed everyone from Mel Brooks to Dolly Parton with humor and class
Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes
Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?
Mexico, According to Graciela Iturbide
“In a way, I really see the world in black and white”: an interview with the photographer, whose shots of Mexico and its diaspora go on show at Paris’s Fondation Cartier
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
The Bernadette Corporation, a radical 90s artist collective, made films and a fashion line for the downtown set, then largely disappeared. Now Metrograph is bringing them back
Come to the Cabaret
It’s a night of re-invention and immersion with Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley in a new revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s decadent musical
Nuclear Winter of the Soul
Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
