Romantic Baroque, Baroque Romance
Seong-Jin Cho’s Handel Project
Not Your Mother’s Tartuffe
At Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Molière’s masterpiece gets a 21st-century makeover
In the Rehearsal Room
A new play about Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud offers a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes politics of the theater
Rodney Smith’s Leap of Faith
A new book of nearly 200 images, many never before published, chronicles the photographer’s trajectory from a student of theology at Yale to one of the great artists of our time
Reality TV Gets a Makeover
The new series Jury Duty, from veteran Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, blurs the line between documentary, sitcom, and Truman Show–esque drama
Lord of the Spins
Fred Again, the world’s most popular D.J., is hip, hot, and very posh
Sibylline Spirit
The Tiburtina Ensemble of Prague brings Hildegard von Bingen to Morningside Heights
In the Heart of Combat
Bernard-Henri Lévy is out with the sequel to Why Ukraine?, bringing his viewers to the front lines during a turning point in the war
Time in a Bottle
Brian d’Arcy James channels Jack Lemmon in the new musical Days of Wine and Roses
America, à la Carte
An exhibition of vintage menus at New York’s Grolier Club celebrates the first 100 years of dining out in America
One Hundred Years of Avedon
Ahead of Richard Avedon’s centennial exhibition, Derek Blasberg reflects on the man who revolutionized fashion photography, and the mark he left on the genre as a whole
Amy Taubin’s “Carte Blanche”
The golden-age Village Voice critic and actress recalls the days of Warhol’s Factory and SoHo before tourists, as her film program debuts at New York’s MoMA
The Once and Future Ring, Part I
The Atlanta Opera’s livestream of Das Rheingold is just the beginning
Power Player
In her debut season at the Metropolitan Opera, Nathalie Stutzmann, a former star contralto, makes sound in the “silent” role of maestro
Where Stage and Screen Collide
Benjamin Millepied, a former ballet principal and the choreographer for Black Swan, turns Georges Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen, on its head in his film debut, starring Paul Mescal
Pushing the Envelope
Boston Baroque stages Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck’s ultimate “reform opera”
The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Ahead of her show at the Queens Museum, the South African multimedia artist Tracey Rose discusses apartheid, psychedelics, and the inspiration behind some of her most radical works
And the Oscar Goes
to …
In Good Night, Oscar, pianist and actor Oscar Levant’s startling appearance on Jack Paar’s Tonight show plays out onstage
Goodnight Vienna
An updated version of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, a comic opera about a Viennese love triangle, finishes its run at the Metropolitan Opera
Hoedown on Broadway
An unheralded new musical is bringing crowds flocking back to New York’s theaterland
