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For years, Michael Cyril Creighton hoped one of his small TV parts would evolve into something more. With ''Only Murders,'' it finally happened. On a rainy morning in early August, [...]

His performance as a debauched vampire in 'What We Do in the Shadows' earned him an Emmy nod. It has also often had him dangling 50 feet off the ground. [...]

The earth shook as she talked about receiving her first Emmy nod, for her role as Harriet in the Apple TV+ show ''Lessons in Chemistry.'' Literally. A few minutes into [...]

A documentary series by a director of 'Tiger King' tells a wild tale about human-chimp relationships. The actor and activist landed right in the middle. In 1997, Alan Cumming appeared [...]

The actress Cailee Spaeny, the seventh of nine children born to committed Southern Baptists, left school in Missouri at 13. She had found work at a theme park, Silver Dollar [...]

Alex Moffat, an actor and comedian best known for his work on ''Saturday Night Live,'' rarely shouts at deer. But during a tense scene in the new crime comedy ''Bad [...]

Josh Hartnett has never made a movie that his children can see. ''I would love to,'' he said. ''I just haven't been offered anything like that, honestly.'' He is especially [...]

After news broke that President Biden would endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, the internet was rife with clips and memes from the show. Kamala Harris hits […]

What's the going rate for a soul these days? A little more than $200 on weekends, less on weekdays, handling fees included. That's the ticket price for 'Life and Trust,' […]

In an interview, the actor discusses his new series, humble origins and the freedom age brings. 'That gives me a tremendous amount of energy to move forward,' he said. Anthony […]

The acclaimed kitchen hit has allowed Elliott, a comic actor from a famously funny family, to embrace her dramatic side. Abby Elliott knows her way around a comedy. A veteran [...]

Described by its showrunner as ''definitely a fantasy,'' the hit series relies on a team of historical consultants. Does the show take their advice? Mostly. When the first season of [...]

In a park, at night, as a train screams nearby, the teenagers punch, kick and grapple. They roll over and over, gravel sticking to their rain-soaked clothes, in a terrible [...]

The actor's versatility has allowed her to stay relatively anonymous, but that may change with her new docudrama about an N.B.A. scandal. Cleopatra Coleman began with red, swirling it toward [...]

The Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of ''The Comedy of Errors'' is touring some of the city's outdoor spaces. On a small stage, three actors practiced [...]

In an interview, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky discussed the Season 3 finale and if the anything-for-a-laugh ethos is worth it. (Short answer: Yes.) This interview includes [...]

''Silliness is hugely important to me,'' said the writer, whose comedy about a Muslim female punk band has won awards and challenged stereotypes. When the writer-director Nida Manzoor began dreaming [...]

Why have podcasters emerged as the rumpled protagonists of numerous television shows? We'll discuss after the break. Gilbert Power, a public radio veteran and the host of the podcast ''On [...]

O'Hara is an unusual kind of triple threat: a star of Broadway and television who is appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of ''The Hours.'' On the HBO [...]

It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions. The day of the Tony Award nominations is like college acceptance day a bit earlier [...]

In a joint interview, the actors discuss ''Under the Bridge,'' their new true-crime series based on a teenager's brutal killing in British Columbia. ''We've been teenage girls,'' Lily Gladstone said. [...]

The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars. About [...]

Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel's latest family drama. In the first scene of ''Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,'' [...]

The philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch has prioritized donations to environmental causes for more than a decade. She has, she said, a deep understanding of how inhospitable the planet will become if [...]

A new musical aims to restore the reputation, in life and art, of the ambitious yet undervalued painter Tamara de Lempicka. The playwright Carson Kreitzer specializes in difficult women, disparaged [...]

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown. Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright and a master satirist, died [...]

Good friends and ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnae, the actresses are each headlining an Apple TV+ comedy of wealth and status. Sometimes Maya Rudolph will watch a movie and marvel at [...]

Known for playing princes and their modern equivalents, this British actor hopes his steamy new drama, ''Mary & George,'' will change how Hollywood sees him. ''I've often found that the [...]

She's sold more than 25 million copies, but isn't slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase. In the early years of her [...]

The first time that Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot a scene together, they were in a bathtub, mostly naked. McGregor, in a maximally unflattering wig, was sticking his [...]

Currently in two series, ''The Regime'' and ''Alice & Jack,'' this versatile actress has played dozens of characters. What connects them? Not even she knows. ''I really do wish sometimes [...]

Procedural dramas are often relaxing to watch, but the hectic sprint to find and cast new patients, clients and crooks each week is anything but. On a Monday afternoon in [...]

A dance performance of ''The Other Side'' and a musical adaptation of ''Show Way'' head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences. Jacqueline Woodson has always seen her books while [...]

If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another's work. ''Pericles'' is a bit of a mess. [...]

Each season of the ABC sitcom employs about 150 children. Its core curriculum: schooling Hollywood in what a show with child actors can be. Willis Kwakye has attended the same [...]

At the sound of a gunshot, a performer, wreathed in white silks, tumbles from the ceiling. His body somersaults, over and over, faster and faster, until it hangs suspended, just [...]

The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on ''The Crown.'' And now he brings that stoicism to ''The Hunt,'' onstage in Brooklyn. On a morning in [...]

''She saved my career,'' Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter. For 41 years, Joan Lader has rented a slender [...]

The classically trained actor taps into his powers of observation to play a behavioral science professor in the NBC series ''The Irrational.'' Jesse L. Martin can tell when you're lying. [...]

Famous women play the famous women in Ryan Murphy's new period drama. In a group interview, they discuss the series and the burdens of public life. The first season of [...]

The actor and writer will star alongside Donald Glover in a series reboot of the 2005 action comedy that combines marital strife with espionage. ''What would happen if James Bond [...]

The ''Color Purple'' supporting actress was nominated for a Tony for the role on Broadway. Still, she spent six months auditioning for the part in the movie. It was 3:30 [...]

With ''Mean Girls,'' ''Wonka'' and ''The Color Purple,'' why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals? Regina George has a secret. She sings. [...]

There were times, a year ago, in Iceland, on a glacier, in the dark, in temperatures well below freezing, when Issa López thought to herself: ''Who wrote this? What is [...]

No longer at the Public, the annual celebration of experimental theater disperses 17 productions across the city. About half are international works that are getting harder to import. The writer [...]

Streamers and networks are creating live experiences to promote series like ''Squid Game'' and ''Only Murders in the Building.'' But do they amount to anything more than just marketing? On [...]

Once told he would never be a leading man if he came out, Bomer defied such predictions and, in projects like ''Fellow Travelers'' and ''Maestro,'' is getting some of the [...]

Playing a new-money upstart in ''The Gilded Age,'' the actor isn't afraid to go big. ''You can't take it too seriously,'' she said. ''You can't take yourself too seriously.'' Carrie [...]

With the publication of a new book about their influential teen drama, which debuted in 2003, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have learned to love ''The O.C.'' again. ''We didn't [...]

There is something for everyone, even the kids, in ''Mind Mangler,'' ''The Magician'' and ''Mario the Maker Magician.'' Are most minds worth the read? I can picture my personal table [...]