Entertainment

How for much longer can Taylor Swift maintain at No. 1 with “The Tortured Poets Department”? This week she is atop the Billboard 200 album chart for a sixth consecutive time, after a monster debut in April and a collection of challenges — every handily fended off — from Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and the […] More

An elliptical halo of skinny, concentrated gentle floated within the capacious drill corridor of the Park Avenue Armory on a latest morning, above a round house designed to dissolve your sense of house and time. At the middle was Kathinka Pasveer, the widow of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, performing his digital music at a console. […] More

“My blood speaks Spanish to me,” Angélica Garcia sang in “Red Moon Rising,” a monitor on her 2016 debut album, “Medicine for Birds.” Garcia, who was born in California, was residing in Virginia; the album leaned towards indie-rock and Americana. But the lyric turned out to be prophetic. She was already eager about the legacy […] More

Cleopatra Coleman started with pink, swirling it towards pink with a fine-tipped brush. An oval appeared on the paper, after which smaller marks joined it — ears, eyebrows, a line for a nostril. “I all the time draw this girl,” Coleman stated. “I don’t know why.” This was on a vivid May morning and Coleman, […] More

For those that nonetheless get pleasure from a cable subscription, here’s a number of cable and community TV reveals, films and specials that broadcast this week, June 3-9. Details and occasions are topic to alter. Monday BELOW DECK MEDITERRANEAN 9 p.m. on Bravo. The unique “Below Deck” wound down its season final week with a […] More

Molly Sweeney can establish dozens of vegetation by contact, catch a lie in a well-recognized voice and dance ecstatically by way of a crowd with out disturbing a hair. Because she misplaced a lot of her eyesight when she was 10 months outdated — besides, crucially, her capability to discern mild from darkish — Molly […] More

Audra McDonald has been dreaming of “Gypsy” since she was a 10-year-old in Fresno, Calif., with a small half in a dinner theater manufacturing of the musical. She performed one of many kids in a vaudeville act known as “Uncle Jocko’s Kiddie Show,” and ever since, she mentioned, “Gypsy” has remained “very a lot alive […] More

THE PLAYBOOK: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War, by James Shapiro Per week earlier than Election Day 1936, when a landslide vote would maintain Franklin D. Roosevelt within the White House for a second time period, the antifascist play “It Can’t Happen Here” opened nationwide: 21 productions in 18 […] More

A weird factor occurs when the actors Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez are out and about in public collectively, utilizing mobility aids to get round: she a scooter, he a wheelchair. Inevitably, she mentioned, strangers method, presuming that the 2 are someway in misery. “People will likely be like, ‘Are you OK? What’s happening?’” […] More

So many films and tv sequence have proven us the distress of a stand-up comedian bombing and the enjoyment of a comic killing. But skirting cliché, the entertaining third season of “Hacks,” which simply concluded, dramatizes a extra novel and pointed onstage second: the disaster of success. Coming off a triumphant particular, the comedian Deborah […] More

The different camp faces greater hurdles. You won’t have even heard of the unique, and so the productions can’t rely on the viewers’s reminiscences. These exhibits additionally take without any consideration that followers who do know the underlying story are able to encounter it in a brand new approach. “The Notebook,” primarily based on a […] More

It was heartening, although, to see a highlight on the violist Cynthia Phelps in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E flat, a double concerto that additionally showcased the violinist Sheryl Staples, all the time a welcome soloist. Violists don’t get sufficient love as it’s, and Phelps was among the many first, brave gamers to carry out […] More