Genius at Play
Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!”
From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
Oscar Season
Mad, sad, and legendarily bad, Oscar Levant was the showbiz answer to Oscar Wilde. After being forgotten for decades, is Hollywood’s greatest wit ready for his comeback?
A Legend in the Making
An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
As Shakespeare’s “duke of dark corners” in Measure for Measure, Mark Rylance finds real life full of shocking surprises
An Evening with Aristotle Onassis
A new one-man play recounts the turbulent life—from telephone operator to the world’s richest man—of the Greek shipping magnate, Jackie O and all …
The 96-Year Itch
At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due
Roll Over, Walt Disney!
Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia
Brangelina for Gen Z?
Yup, Tom Holland and Zendaya have more than 189 million Instagram followers, and their films made upward of $2.4 billion last year
The Queen’s Gambit
Immersive midsummer madness from the Bridge Theatre, London
Tablescapes of Dreams
A beautiful new decorating book by descendants of Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster pairs archival photos with a newly discovered recipe collection
Ink Different
Recalling an era where Richard Avedon and Bill Cunningham shot for underground independents, Chicago’s Art Institute goes inside the world of alternative magazines spanning the 70s to the 90s
Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci
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
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
Are Those Socks Bukowski?
Celebrated authors don’t have to “go Hollywood” to sell out—they just have to die
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
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
