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June 16, 2024, 10:37 p.m. ET June 16, 2024, 10:37 p.m. ET Lindsay Mendez, Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe within the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along.”Credit…Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Merrily We Roll Along,” lengthy thought-about one of the vital storied flops in Broadway historical past, discovered redemption on Sunday when it gained […] More

Elinor Fuchs, whose impassioned insights into modern theater — first as a critic prowling the avant-garde scene in New York, and later as a professor at Yale — made her one of many main students of the fashionable American stage, died on May 28 at her residence within the West Village of Manhattan. She was […] More

Sitting exterior a bar within the Greenpoint part of Brooklyn one latest Sunday afternoon, Julius Rodriguez spoke with attribute straightforwardness describing music that’s something however. The composer and bandleader, who has performed with the rapper ASAP Rocky and style-bending artists like Kassa Overall and Meshell Ndegeocello, articulated the central problem of his work, an amorphous […] More

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Janis Joplin: “Ball and Chain (Live)” Though Big Brother and the Holding Company and its lead singer Janis Joplin had been a few of Monterey’s greatest breakout stars — the band obtained a file cope with Columbia on the power of its efficiency — their preliminary […] More

Indeed, the songwriter and producer Dan Tannenbaum, referred to as Bekon, recalled that within the studio Hozier “would usually say, ‘Oh, I don’t know, there’s lots of people doing that proper now’” in response to “overly industrial” strategies. Tannenbaum, who has writing and manufacturing credit on “Too Sweet” and a majority of the tracks on […] More

“The Heart of Rock and Roll,” a brand new jukebox musical powered by the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, will shut on Broadway on Sunday. The present is the second to announce plans to shut within the wake of this 12 months’s Tony nominations, becoming a member of “Lempicka” on the listing of […] More

The punk rock pioneers selected freedom — and chaos — over main labels. Pulling the plug whereas issues are nonetheless working is one closing act of rebel. By James H. Martin Photographs by Max Slobodda June 18, 2024 “It’s like going to your individual wake.” Mike Burkett, identified solely within the punk rock world as […] More

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the earlier evening’s highlights that permits you to sleep — and lets us receives a commission to observe comedy. Here are the 50 finest motion pictures on Netflix proper now. The Wrong Ron During a rally on Saturday, former President Donald Trump bragged about passing a […] More

When she first broke by way of within the early Nineteen Sixties, the bewitching French pop star Françoise Hardy, who died on Tuesday at 80, was initially lumped in with the yé-yés, the commercially minded rocking and twisting French singers of the period. She later got here to see a lot of her early recordings, […] More

Angela Bofill, a New York-bred singer whose sultry alto propelled a string of R&B hits within the late Nineteen Seventies and early ’80s earlier than strokes derailed her profession within the 2000s, died on Thursday in Vallejo, Calif. She was 70. Her loss of life, on the residence of her daughter, Shauna Bofill Vincent, was […] More

The critical hassle began on Christmas Eve, upstate with household. The Puerto Rican facet doesn’t alternate speaking and listening — every is completed in spirited unison. I used to be talking too loudly over different tales and my very own glass of wine, preventing a head chilly and getting gravelly. My boyfriend, Benjamin, caught my […] More

Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor. For two months now, Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” has dominated the Billboard album chart, keeping off challenges from Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and the Ok-pop group Ateez, usually with the assistance of particular “variations” that includes additional tracks. This week, “Tortured Poets” logs its eighth […] More