The comic?s new special, ?American Boy,? shows that he has the leading-man charisma and hunger. His career will be interesting to watch.

Everyone expected ?The Kholops,? a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.

City Winery?s 50th anniversary screening of the film encouraged some inventive dress up, including tributes to fan favorites like Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The Norwegian drama collected six awards at the event, which was moved to January this year in hopes of increasing its visibility for Oscar voters.

The first episode of 2026, hosted by Finn Wolfhard of ?Stranger Things,? satirized that hit Netflix series and conjured a Harry Potter reboot à la ?Heated Rivalry.?

In Jack O?Connell?s hands, the vampire of ?Sinners? and the cult leader of ?28 Years Later: The Bone Temple? are vicious in very different ways.

?I find it weird when I go away and there are no noises of someone knocking over something or munching at the cat food or playing with a toy at 3 a.m. annoyingly keeping you up.?

Mitski and Flea have new albums on the way, and a classic Prince track is surging on the singles chart thanks to ?Stranger Things.?

A lighter story about an itinerant sword-swinger cuts ?Game of Thrones? down to small pleasures.

With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO?s ?A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? is the first test of whether the ?Thrones? formula works on a human scale.

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer alive and nurture the next generation of creators.

The artist reflects on how the chaotic eight years since his last release ? including three kids and two trials ? led to his latest album, ?Don?t Be Dumb.?

Erica Schmidt?s discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.

Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman?s ?What to Wear? at BAM is a visually rich, textually odd work ? and a hot commodity.

Another ice-skating romance premieres, and a reboot of ?Star Search? comes to Netflix.

The latest and most humorous offering in the ?Game of Thrones? universe follows the hulking, lovable Ser Duncan, who may or may not be a real knight.

A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions in a career that spanned seven decades.

In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, the musician dedicated his song ?The Promised Land? to Ms. Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month.

She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.

Chantal Anderson breaks down how she captured this year?s Golden Globe winners backstage on an assignment from The New York Times.

After the institution?s board declared it the Trump Kennedy Center, a lot of signage around the building is in the midst of a makeover.

A self-taught musician, he wore flashing goggles while playing the violin. But his real skill was as a painter, and his portraits offered an eerie commentary on the times.

The bargaining unit, which includes curatorial, conservation and retail departments, could represent about half of the Met?s work force.

The oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Washington venue during its nationwide tour.

The singer called the accusations ?completely false? in a statement released after Spanish prosecutors said they would investigate.

In this month?s picks, hijacked bullet trains, comet creatures and time loops in the British countryside.

Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show ?Eat the Rich.?

Spring performances of ?Treemonisha? and ?The Crucible? will be held at George Washington University.

From a Wim Wenders masterpiece to a Stanley Tucci gem, these films all revolve around the possibility of fresh starts and new beginnings.

Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.

Whether you?re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

The director Brittany Shyne?s film is slow-moving and lyrical in its focus on the seasonal rhythms of the work, even as it shifts to policy concerns.

The ?Late Night? host said there was no way President Trump drank milk, ?unless someone tricked you into thinking your Diet Coke came from a cow.?

Viewers got extra intimate this week with the hard physical realities of life in the emergency ward.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play grizzled cops looking at each other sideways in this Netflix crime thriller that has all the concepts but not much else.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.

Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.

A self-taught artist, he also spent more than half a century creating forensic sketches and reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies.

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of ?Company,? ?Titanic? and ?Six Degrees of Separation? and from many movie and TV appearances.

?Sons of Echo,? in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don?t have a monopoly on bad taste.

Other picks include ?Bat Out of Hell: The Musical,? a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and ?Lazarus,? featuring the music of David Bowie.

Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.

A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band?s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.

There?s much more to Sally Wainwright?s series about middle-aged punk rockers than the music.

In ?Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,? she got to play a few things she never had in her varied career: a space captain and a woman over 400 years old.

The 1929 silent film returns in a shimmering, sensitively scored restoration that brings out the lurid and the romantic in Erich von Stroheim?s story of orphan-meets-prince.

When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document what he had witnessed.

The heavy metal pioneer known for his lightning-fast shredding and snarling vocal style is going out his way, with a final album and tour.

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive ? and intentional ? than many critics appreciated.

A grieving widower finds his problems are just beginning when his wife returns in the form of a household appliance in this gloriously funny, shape-shifting debut feature.

This detour-heavy film moves across time periods to follow girlhood mischief, desire and abuse on a German farm.

Benjamin Flaherty discovered some disturbing tendencies in the addiction recovery industry. His documentary is upsetting and revelatory.

Speaking in French (but cursing in English), the actress plays an American psychiatrist abroad who stumbles into unexpected intrigue.

Rival gangs in Los Angeles join forces when a bloodsucking unit of the police department invades their community.

A filmmaker who can?t secure an interview with the A.I. executive turns to technology for a solution.

The artist isn?t known for her drawings, but in a new show these cryptic, sometimes unsettling works speak volumes.

By condensing the logic of the action, this anime adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka?s light novel undermines the story?s excitement.

The latest installment in the zombie saga is all about evil and good, and whether any of it exists.

?You got to hand it to that auto worker for getting under Trump?s skin,? Stephen Colbert said after the president appeared to flip off a heckling worker at a Ford plant.

In 1970, he founded London?s Young Vic, an adventurous ?people?s theater? (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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