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
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
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
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
I Do! I Do!
Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas
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
Blake Slatkin
The young music producer has collaborated with Justin Bieber, the Kid LAROI, and Lil Nas X on top hits
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
Bowie’s Back
A never-before-released David Bowie album hits the airwaves
Out of the Blue
A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
Alexandre Assouline
He grew up watching his parents turn a fledgling publishing company into a coffee-table-book sensation. Now he’s helping to run it
Behind Enemy Lines
A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight
Theater Pick of the Week
From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
Opera Pick of the Week
The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces