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
Born to Sing Verdi Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto
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
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
December 17, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
December 16, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
December 16, 2021
Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk
Charge of the Minutemen Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour
Opera Pick of the Week From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
December 10, 2021
Miami Vice Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)
December 7, 2021
And Five, Six, Seven, Eight! Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!
Leading with the Chin Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence
Making Trouble A searing satire of the Black experience in the largely white New York theater, Trouble in Mind sees the light 66 years after it was written
