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Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci
February 18, 2022
Frieze Los Angeles is Back! After a year hiatus and a venue change, the third edition of the art fair will host more than 100 galleries
February 15, 2022
Are Those Socks Bukowski? Celebrated authors don’t have to “go Hollywood” to sell out—they just have to die
Take Me to Dimes Square A young playwright reveals how the pandemic led him to find himself—and his latest play—in the Chinatown stomping ground of New York’s downtown set
Gridiron Giants Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, a look back through the archives of America’s favorite sport
Nuclear Winter of the Soul Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
February 11, 2022
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
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
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
Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?
February 4, 2022
Steve Schapiro Brought the Laughs A fixture on the Hollywood circuit, Schapiro photographed everyone from Mel Brooks to Dolly Parton with humor and class
When the Cat’s Away … The mice run wild in Ben Jonson’s knockabout sitcom The Alchemist
January 28, 2022
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
January 25, 2022
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