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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 [...]

Jeremy Strong’s best actor nomination for his starring role in the widely praised https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/theater/an-enemy-of-the-people-review-jeremy-strong.html could not have come as a surprise. But it did. “It’s always a surprise, actually,” he [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/climate/kathryn-murdoch-climate-change-voting.html 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 climate change [...]

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,” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/movies/lily-gladstone-killers-of-the-flower-moon.html said. Which [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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, [...]

Good friends and “Saturday Night Live” alumnae, the actresses are each headlining an Apple TV+ comedy of wealth and status. Sometimes https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/magazine/maya-rudolph-snl-amazon-forever.html will watch a movie and marvel at how [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Technical artists used a combination of digital and practical effects to slice an oil tanker into pieces in the fifth episode. Here’s how they did it. It begins slowly, almost [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A dance performance of “The Other Side” and a musical adaptation of “Show Way” head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone.html has always seen her books while she [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski '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 [...]

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. [...]

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 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 [...]

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 ''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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

Nominations for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 12. Two days later members of SAG-AFTRA joined writers on the picket lines. This dual strike, finally resolved in [...]

The Primetime Emmy ceremony typically seems long, but it includes just a fraction of the awards that the Television Academy distributes each year. On Jan. 6 and 7, the academy [...]

The “Dead to Me” actress makes a rare public appearance to present the first Emmy, for supporting actress in a comedy series. Christina Applegate made a rare public appearance to [...]

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. [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 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 [...]

Its stars, Jeremy White and Ayo Edebiri, also won for their acting roles. Globe voters said “Yes, chef,” to “The Bear,” which beat out “Ted Lasso” and “Abbott Elementary” to [...]