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A Whole Different Beast

Assignment: Sinatra

A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever

Grace Potter

Starting next week, the singer-songwriter will perform ballads from her latest album, Mother Road, written on her Route 66 road trip, around the U.S.

The Barbie Girl Variations

A Spanish cellist in Sweden who moonlights on piano gives Aqua’s golden oldie a half dozen makeovers

Au Revoir, les Femmes

A new documentary tells the little-known story of a group of 230 non-Jewish women of the French Resistance who were sent to Auschwitz

Always Beckoning

Beck, laughing wild amid severest woe, is on tour through September 10, with upcoming stops in Texas, Chicago, Toronto, and cities along the East Coast

Picture’s Up

The 76th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which opens next week, will screen a selection of vintage movies and innovative international films

Little Mermaid in La La Land

From Amsterdam, a fey yet bleak revival of Dvořák’s Rusalka

Swimming with Sharks

A tragicomedy about the making of Jaws, starring Robert Shaw’s son Ian, premieres on Broadway

In Their Heads

Set in an asylum, choreographer Matthew Bourne’s twist on Romeo and Juliet surprises audiences at Sadler’s Wells