By transmitting his love of live performance, the ?Just in Time? actor has completed his ascendance to full musical stardom.

In the four years since the British singer last released an album, artists like Sombr, working in similar aesthetic modes, have climbed onto the charts.

Bungie was bought for billions after creating the hit video games Halo and Destiny. But will players welcome its confrontational extraction shooter Marathon with open arms?

The actor Chadwick Boseman was a playwright, too. At Shakespeare?s Globe in London, his ?Deep Azure? is drawing attention to a lost talent inspired by the Bard.

Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign.

During its early days, the band came up with songs about a fictional nightclub. After a career filled with ups and downs, it finally returned to ?Trixies.?

Maggie Gyllenhaal?s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley?s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.

The latest Pixar movie centers on pudgy beavers and a spunky teenager determined to save their habitat.

Michel van der Aa?s ?Theory of Flames? originates from a question: ?How can we relate to people if we don?t believe in the same reality??

Andrea Fraser had long felt that she was to blame for the years her mother, Carmen de Monteflores, was overlooked. Now Carmen is 92. Can the Whitney Biennial make amends?

Hollywood careers don?t always begin where you expect them to, as Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor and Emma Stone could tell you.

Maggie Gyllenhaal?s ?The Bride!? imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions.

The Justice Department had John Abbamondi testify at an antitrust trial to support its case that Live Nation has acted as a monopoly, an accusation the company denies.

Doron Langberg used to think their Israeli heritage was incidental to their art. Then the Gaza war brought questions of identity and history to the surface.

The comedian is building a galaxy of collaborators ? Timothée Chalamet, Kai Cenat and Justin Bieber ? and telling us how they fit into his future.

A remake of the 1986 crowd-pleasing hockey movie, starring Ashton James as a promising young Black player, has a lot more on its mind than the original.

This unclassifiable postmodern spoof, from the comedians Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, is a strange, circuitous trip through California wine country.

A loutish teenager is shown the error of his ways in this absurdly gripping psychological thriller.

In this documentary, an ad man who treats life with irreverence tries to approach his death from colon cancer the same way.

A backwoods monster with a twisted doll obsession puts a couple through the wringer in this unflinching exploitation fairy tale.

?This could be the first war ever launched based on vibes,? Jimmy Fallon said.

The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the ?Call Her Daddy? podcast.

A new Bill Lawrence comedy starring Steve Carell and a new mystery starring Nicole Kidman are among this month?s highlights.

A producer, recording engineer and sound mixer, he helped pioneer sampling in rap music, including on the influential album ?The Low End Theory? by A Tribe Called Quest.

For Commes des Garçons, he designed improbable perfumes that conjured burning rubber and cars leaking oil. His uncanny art pieces were equally contrarian.

With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for decades.

Why the country is quick to tear down its modern architectural masterpieces.

Hugh Jackman returns in ?Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes,? Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays Truman Capote, and Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub star in an ?Antigone? riff.

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. The movie is nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture.

A son of Puerto Rican parents who grew up in the Bronx, Barretto moved between jazz and Latin music with relentless creativity. Hear 12 indestructible tracks.

The singer-songwriter?s latest album, ?You?re Free to Go,? has poppier influences undergirding its signature gut punch.

The hit show is wrapping up, but its legacy will live on in a tourism boom and a blossoming local TV industry.

For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville?s novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her Oscar-nominated film, featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

?Please, give the people what they want for once,? the talk show host appealed to President Trump. ?This is our destiny together, you and me. Think about it.?

The National Capital Planning Commission received about 32,000 messages during its public comment period. Suffice it to say: Many people are not happy with the president?s ballroom plans.

The Justice Department lawsuit says the concert giant acts as a monopoly in the music industry, a charge the company denies.

Nick Ut, the freelancer long credited for the award-winning photo from the Vietnam War, says a Netflix documentary questioning his work has defamed him.

The Lazours? intimate new musical about illness and mortality is also about finding solace in other people, and in art.

Listen to Ella Langley?s Hot 100 hit and more songs about a place that?s long been a source of musical inspiration.

He covered Philadelphia with more than 50,000 square feet of madcap mosaics, showcasing his work at the Magic Gardens Museum.

The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano?s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.

Several promising titles are coming this month, including a new series starring Rachel Weisz and the feature-length sequel to ?Peaky Blinders.?

In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.

In the state of Michoacán, industrial agriculture and organized crime threaten a cottage industry.

Benjamin Millepied?s ?Romeo and Juliet Suite,? with its unusual approach to dance coupling and live performance, comes to the Park Avenue Armory.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has placed a huge bet on Klaus Mäkelä for its future. It?s still too soon to tell whether that will pay off.

Yuval Sharon, known for his bold approach to opera, is making his Met debut with what he has called ?the single hardest work? to stage.

This month?s picks include the animated feature films that are competing for an Academy Award on March 15.

The new series, streaming on Prime Video, tells the story of the famous detective?s youth with the trademark swagger of the producer Guy Ritchie.

David Novros has spent years finessing and repainting site-specific artworks in his SoHo space.

The Oscar nominee Autumn Durald Arkapaw?s ambitious collaboration with Ryan Coogler was also risky, starting with the very heavy large-format cameras.

There are plenty of reasons to consider collecting and playing LPs of your favorite music. Saving money isn?t one of them.

The military operation?s name ?is different from its original title, which was ?Operation Epstein-o Distract-o,?? Jimmy Kimmel said.

The new musical from the comedian Amber Ruffin has a wholesome moral and silliness in spades.

The orchestra returned to Carnegie Hall for three concerts, led by Andris Nelsons, in which the playing was inconsistent but also moving.

You?ll rebuild a community in a spinoff that emulates cozy games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa?s new ballet, based on the life of one of the first modern lesbians, is changing how dancers view their traditional roles.

Onscreen and behind the scenes, the movie is about the pursuit of liberation, not just for its characters, but also for filmmaking itself.

Opening a decade after ?Fun Home? debuted on Broadway, the new musical ?Starstruck? has a lesbian protagonist and a female creative team. That still seems radical.

A jury will decide whether the music colossus, which owns venues, represents artists and operates Ticketmaster, is a monopoly, as the Justice Department contends.

A new exhibition in the director?s native Athens showcases his work as a photographer. ?I?d like to take a break from making films,? he said. ?For now, at least.?

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