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The actor Al Pacino sought to clarify his awkward and abrupt announcement of “Oppenheimer” as the perfect image winner on the Academy Awards, saying in an announcement on Monday that the producers had determined he wouldn’t learn the complete listing of nominees. “I simply wish to be clear it was not my intention to omit […] More

No fashionable British dramatist polarized his countrymen as a lot as Edward Bond, who died on Sunday at age 89. To some, he was an unholy terror, relentless in his doctrinaire socialism and disconcertingly keen on violent theatrical results. To others, he was nearly a secular saint, a author of unflinching integrity in a world […] More

Sometimes you simply want a couple of nice singers. Two weeks in the past on the Metropolitan Opera, an excellent solid in “La Forza del Destino” outshone a brand new, considerably confused staging by Mariusz Trelinski. And now, Bartlett Sher’s good-looking but unconvincing 2016 manufacturing of Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” has returned to the home […] More

Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” was already a chart monster. The album, launched final March, spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1, then notched one other 4 by the autumn, and two extra early this 12 months. Thanks to constantly large streaming numbers, it was the most well-liked album of 2023. Now […] More

When the singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker was 21, she was concerned in a motorcycle accident that knocked out one among her incisors. For some time, she walked round with a pretend, gold-colored cap in her mouth. But after she was in a position to put money into a porcelain tooth, Lenker realized she truly […] More

Since queer characters are at present put on the middle of many extra tales than they was, it’s most likely no shock that many of the makes an attempt to revive the Gay Best Friend are interval items — together with “And Just Like That … ,” which, for all of its up to date […] More

For TV viewers like me who nonetheless haven’t reduce the twine, here’s a choice of cable and community exhibits, motion pictures and specials broadcasting Monday by way of Sunday, March 11-16. Details and instances are topic to alter. Monday LAKEFRONT EMPIRE 10 p.m. on HGTV. This new actual property collection takes viewers to Missouri’s Lake […] More

What enjoyable can you may have with plain brown grocery sacks and empty cardboard cartons? Preschoolers know the right way to derive pleasure from these objects (as does any curious cat). But maybe one of the simplest ways to understand their magical potential is to observe the Paper Bag Players, a New York City youngsters’s […] More

It most likely doesn’t assist that every time he grabs some nitroglycerin to crack a secure, Douglas MacArthur (Ken Marks) — Elmer’s outdated commander at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the place he joined the Army for some time — begins hectoring him in his head: “That’s not the way you do it, maggot!” The present takes […] More

Still, if you happen to’re like me, you could lean extra closely to at least one facet than the opposite. In this regard, Scott Ellis’s manufacturing for the Roundabout Theater Company has not but reached the perfect stability; Ryan, stepping in for an ailing Tyne Daly, has had just some weeks to organize. Her tackle […] More

In different fingers, these mini-dramas could be unbearable, however Peck’s dances, neither ethereal nor arcane, make them candy as a substitute. They typically start with acquainted hand gestures, like fanning flies or dangerous ideas from the pinnacle, then develop into arm actions that in the end pull in the remainder of the physique. In this […] More

In 2003, three many years into her profession, Dominique Blanc skilled each actor’s worst nightmare: The cellphone stopped ringing. Approaching 50, she was one in every of France’s most celebrated performers, contemporary off an acclaimed stage run in a basic tragedy, Jean Racine’s “Phèdre.” But the following, yearslong lack of presents “deeply unsettled me,” Blanc […] More