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Meaningful, long-lasting connections can take some time to type, however when Nina Conti met her future partner-in-crime, she knew they have been simpatico immediately. “It was a kind of moments the place I felt very grounded as quickly as I noticed his face,” Conti, a British performer and author, mentioned in a video dialog. “It […] More

Rapid-fire punchlines and artful sight gags might not appear the obvious means to convey a brutal historical past of displacement and extermination. But “Between Two Knees,” which opened on the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan on Tuesday, makes use of each in an audaciously sidesplitting comedy that’s an indictment of Native American persecution. The […] More

Whether it’s thought by way of or instinctual, turning your again to the viewers definitely makes a press release. The individual onstage may want to cover from an intrusive gaze, or may be intentionally attempting to recalibrate the character of spectacle and the expectations we place on it. Or possibly it’s all a part of […] More

A big, rectangular display hangs from the highest of the stage on the Theater Royal Haymarket in London. It is, somewhat appropriately, in portrait mode. Beneath it, the Australian actress Sarah Snook (“Succession,” “Run Rabbit Run”), sporting a Johnny Bravo-style blonde quiff, is circulated by a small workforce of black-clad digicam operators who broadcast her […] More

When a stage manufacturing of “The Shawshank Redemption” opened lately in China, it was solid solely with Western actors talking fluent Mandarin Chinese. But which will have been the least stunning a part of the present. That the present — an adaptation of the Stephen King novella that turned one of the crucial beloved motion […] More

As his personal life unfolds, an artist reconsiders his response to Joan Didion’s memoir about loss. More

Segarra’s most conceptually bold album to this point is “The Navigator,” a sort of character-driven folk-rock opera — within the vein of Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown” — about Puerto Rican tradition and the American immigrant expertise. (Working with the actor and director C. Julian Jimenéz, they introduced components of a stage adaptation in progress final yr […] More

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly tradition roundup present on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, contains segments on: Connect With Popcast. Become part of the Popcast neighborhood: Join the present’s Facebook group and Discord channel. We wish to hear from you! Tune in, and inform us what you assume at […] More

No one appeared to know what had occurred to some of the essential bass guitars in music historical past, although within the many years because it went lacking there had been some dramatic rumors. Was the Höfner violin bass, which had accompanied Paul McCartney and the Beatles to worldwide fame, tucked away in a personal […] More

2. No Doubt: “Artificial Sweetener” “The return of Saturn,” Gwen Stefani sings on this angsty new-wave-y rocker, which completely encapsulates a cosmic identification disaster. “Assessing my life, second-guessing.” ▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. R.E.M.: “Saturn Return” A 12 months after No Doubt’s “Return of Saturn,” R.E.M. launched its twelfth studio album, […] More

Randy Sparks, a artistic impresario whose musical ensemble, the New Christy Minstrels, helped to jump-start the folks revival of the early Sixties and launched the careers of performers like John Denver, Steve Martin and Kenny Rogers, died on Sunday at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. He was 90. His son Kevin confirmed the demise. […] More

The civil-fraud case towards Donald J. Trump’s companies in New York, through which he was ordered to pay a penalty of $355 million, was not televised. Neither was his civil trial for the defamation of E. Jean Carroll. Nor — barring an unlikely change in federal court docket coverage — will probably be his looming […] More