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When the choreographer Kate Prince set out a number of years in the past to create a dance present based mostly on the music of Sting, she was not sure what story she would possibly have the ability to inform utilizing his various songbook. Then she noticed pictures of younger Syrian refugees taking determined dangers […] More

There was by no means any doubt that Taylor Swift’s newest launch, “The Tortured Poets Department,” was going to be huge. The query was simply how huge. And the reply is, gigantic. “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift’s eleventh studio album, opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with historic numbers, together with […] More

At a time when Broadway is overflowing with performs and musicals however might use extra ticket consumers, this season’s Tony Award nominations might be introduced on Tuesday, providing a lift to some reveals and dashing the hopes of others. Here’s what you would possibly wish to know in regards to the Tony nominations, which this […] More

Broadway exhibits often include a again story in regards to the yearslong slog it took to get them there. Not so with Heidi Schreck’s new translation of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” which arrived at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater not even 12 months after its inception. Directed by Lila Neugebauer, it’s Schreck’s first Broadway present […] More

The present, hosted by Nev Schulman and Kamie Crawford, begins its ninth season on MTV. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s soccer collection on FX is again for Season 3. More

The office in “Jordans,” an bold however unwieldy new play on the Public Theater, is so white that it’s a bit alarming. I don’t imply to say it’s stuffed with white folks (although it actually is that, too), however fairly that the aesthetic of the house itself catches your consideration: minimalist, trendy, white screens and […] More

Improv comedy grew to become so influential within the first 20 years of this century that you would make an argument it mattered extra to in style tradition than stand-up. Lines commonly ran down the block exterior Upright Citizens Brigade. Students who as soon as would have studied Method performing took courses in “Yes, and.” […] More

The Philharmonic, which Dudamel will lead extra ceaselessly subsequent season earlier than formally enterprise his duties, is already exhibiting indicators of his affect. And he collaborated seamlessly with the night’s soloist, the violinist Hilary Hahn, the orchestra’s artist in residence. A musician of poise and rounded tone, Hahn proved within the Ginastera that she will […] More

In essentially the most heartbreaking scene of Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly,” the title character waits. A teenage geisha married off to an American naval lieutenant, she stays dedicated to him lengthy after he abandons her. He will return, she believes — one wonderful day. When she sees his ship approaching the shores of Japan, she […] More

People within the media have lengthy fearful concerning the impression of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on journalism. The concern is that it makes the press look too chummy with politicians it’s protecting. But what’s the impression on comedy? A high-ceilinged resort ballroom crammed with tv anchors and community executives is a tricky room […] More

‘Mary Jane’ Rachel McAdams makes her Broadway debut in Amy Herzog’s play about an impossibly upbeat mom caring for a gravely sick youngster and navigating the byzantine well being care system. From our assessment: [Herzog] is just not considering locking down that means. Like all nice performs, “Mary Jane” catches mild from completely different instructions […] More

Contains spoilers for Seasons 1 and a pair of of “Guilt.” “Guilt,” a pioneering sequence in Scottish tv — it was the primary drama commissioned by the newly shaped BBC Scotland channel in 2019 — has constructed an viewers nicely past its borders. A melancholy story of household dysfunction introduced as a sophisticated crime thriller, […] More