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Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.
The Czech composer energetically explored form after form.
Spy, murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day, the transgressive Elizabethan dramatist taps into the gravely comical troubles into which humans tumble.
A concert en plein air.
Wilco's front man on his forthcoming solo record"a triple album, but "whittled down from five," as he tells Amanda Petrusich. "I've made single records that feel longer."
The new "Office" spinoff is a love letter to newspapers"if not the reporting inside them.
Also: New York City Ballet and New York Philharmonic kick off their fall seasons, Nourished by Time brings "The Passionate Ones" to Irving Plaza, and more.
On the last day of carnival season, migrant workers keep the rides up and running for joyful kids, while they mourn lost time with their own families.
Tickets are now on sale for the three-day October event, which will feature Jon Stewart, Salman Rushdie, Demi Moore, Lina Khan, Lucy Dacus, Percival Everett, and more.
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden," which was published in The New Yorker in 2014.
Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.
The comedian talks about his new album, a sound-effects record for the modern era, with the staff writer Michael Schulman.
The "Love, Brooklyn" and "Moonlight" actor recommends some of his favorites.
On any given day, brilliant stuff would spontaneously fly out of someone's mouth. A lot of that stuff had to go, to keep the film's motor running.
Columbia Records saw Terry Riley's "In C," now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn't contain the composer's ut…
The latest album from the musical "S.N.L." alum is a compilation of sound effects, including such tracks as "Obligatory Applause at a Speech" and "Tentative Sawing."
We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?
Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?
The "entertainer" Kareem Rahma discusses Kamala Harris's missed opportunity on his show, meeting Andrew Cuomo, and why disagreement is more fun.
At the newly renovated Delacorte, Saheem Ali directs a celebrity-packed production that is comically inventive but rarely stirring.
Plus: the eclectic chaos of Haim, Trajal Harrell struts the catwalk at Park Avenue Armory, "Mamma Mia!" returns to Broadway, and more.
Ethan Coen, working with his wife, Tricia Cooke, endows this neo-noir comedy, about a lesbian detective, with dazzle but little more.
Looking closely at a few of the legendary writer's works.
"You mysterious cruel hand, / you cold dropped and not-yet-dropped rain."
Mitchell captured New York's oddballs and renegades with an understated lyricism that transformed fact into literature.
