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When Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s basic manager, requested the director Lileana Blain-Cruz what she needed to stage, she didn’t want any time to consider her reply: “El Niño.” A few years in the past, she had already been employed to direct Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln within the Bardo,” an adaptation of the George Saunders novel […] More

It’s 2024, and Huey Lewis is having a second. Just let that sink in. Lewis was an surprising spotlight of the current Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop,” concerning the star-studded 1985 session the place “We Are the World” was recorded. An everyman rocker, Lewis was amazed (and nonetheless is) that he was rubbing […] More

Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not all the time clear which is which. More

Bob Heil’s profession as a groundbreaking sound engineer who introduced thunder and wealthy sonic coloring to excursions by rock titans just like the Grateful Dead and the Who started behind a pipe organ in a Nineteen Twenties film palace. Mr. Heil, who helped usher rock into its arena-shaking period by designing elaborate sound methods that […] More

Future and Metro Boomin, two of the large kahunas of Atlanta hip-hop, have launched a pair of joint albums within the final month — correctly getting them to market forward of Taylor Swift’s new “The Tortured Poets Department,” which has the music trade braced for gigantic gross sales figures. “We Don’t Trust You,” the primary […] More

THE RULEBREAKER: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, by Susan Page Much of the fabric in “The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters” has been advised earlier than, with persuasive narrative management, by the late tv journalist herself in her dishy 2008 memoir, “Audition.” Don’t let that cease the reader of this […] More

Nine years after we first heard Robert Durst mutter “Killed all of them, in fact,” “The Jinx” is again, with a brand new, six-episode Part Two that premiered Sunday on HBO. And why not? Maybe it feels unseemly, or like outdated information, with Durst having died in jail in 2022 after the unique sequence helped […] More

For TV viewers who nonetheless haven’t minimize the twine, here’s a choice of cable and community reveals, motion pictures and specials broadcasting Monday via Sunday, April 22-28. Details and occasions are topic to vary. Monday THE SYNANON FIX 9 p.m. on HBO. In 1958, Synanon opened their doorways in California as drug rehabilitation middle. But […] More

Lourdes Portillo, the Oscar-nominated Mexican-born documentary filmmaker whose work explored Latin American social points by way of spellbinding narratives, has died. She was 80. Ms. Portillo died Saturday at her house in San Francisco. Her loss of life was confirmed by her buddy Soco Aguilar. No trigger was given. One of Ms. Portillo’s best-known works […] More

In her essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” the novelist Ursula Ok. Le Guin hymned the bag as the correct form for tales: it “is stuffed with beginnings with out ends, of initiations, of losses, of transformations and translations, and way more tips than conflicts.” One of the characters in Lia Romeo’s “Still,” a […] More

Beyond this reminder of Britten, Neuwirth folds in nods to different kinds and works — crisp, courtly echoes of Baroque music; touches of louche, soiled blues; the solemn bells of Wagner’s “Parsifal” — within the eclectic method of Berio’s 1968 “Sinfonia” or Mahler’s symphonies, to offer a way of the burden of historical past on […] More

For Pelt, that camaraderie was key. At the outset of the “Griot” mission, he mentioned, it was clear “what was wanted to actually do one thing like that was a big stage of belief from musician to musician,” one thing he had constructed up throughout his 20 years on the scene, working with esteemed veterans […] More