They anointed themselves the "most accessible orchestra on the planet," and have gone some ways toward justifying that superlative. Tickets are cheaper than at other orchestras; my press sea…
By rewording the ads to appeal to the respondents' underlying psychological disposition, the researchers were able to influence and change their opinions. According to Sumner, "Using psychog…
Bambi Linn, ninety-two, and Brittany Pollack, twenty-nine, discuss dancing the same role on Broadway, seventy-three years apart. Michael Schulman writes.
How is it that human thought is so deeply different from that of other animals, even though our brains can be quite similar? The difference is due, Andy Clark believes, to our heightened abi…
"As a composer, I believe that the best gift I can offer our troubled world is music. Some composers choose to address the political issues of their times directly in their music. But, altho…
"It's a big question, when the word 'real' makes sense. An interesting possibility is that the whole distinction between real and unreal is misguided."
Rebecca Mead on Callisto, which functions like the "Shitty Media Men" list, without the vulnerability of a Google doc. Â
A field of advice columns that lob texts at people's troubles has flowered recently, from the Times' "Match Book" to Lit Hub's "Dear Book Therapist" to the Paris Review Daily's "Poetry…
Emily Wilson's presence on Twitter is quietly revolutionary, a new kind of experience for readers, poets, translators, and really anyone who likes to watch knowledge take shape in an open fo…
Amanda Petrusich on Rebecca Miller's new HBO documentary, "Arthur Miller: Writer," which offers an intimate look at the playwright's work in the theatre, struggle with McCarthyism, and insat…
Michael Schulman writes about Marianne Elliott as she wrestles with a notoriously difficult play, and with Tony Kushner.
Andrew Marantz meets the co-founder/CEO of the fourth-most-visited website in the United States, looks at just what it took for the company to move past free-speech absolutism, and how the s…
A revival of Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning play comes to Studio 54.
The adaptation, which is in previews now, features an updated script by Tina Fey.
"In the past decade, film criticism has become better than ever, by which I don't mean that every critic writing is better than those of the past but that criticism is better over all"more c…
Patricia Marx on why Jo Ann Veneziano, an accountant from New Jersey, has seen "Sweeney Todd" a hundred and thirty-seven times.
New York City Ballet and New York Theatre Ballet honor the choreographer's centenary.
Michael Schulman writes about Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar, and her speech demanding that more women tell their stories in the movies.
Adam Gopnik on a new memoir that shows how the composer brought back the masses by returning the musical to an earlier form. Â
Alex Ross on the company's tacky "Semiramide" and glorious "Parsifal."
Hilton Als on "Jerry Springer: The Opera" and "Black Light."
Revisiting an imperfect but useful litmus test in light of #MeToo
The latest staging, by Phelim McDermott, evokes Coney Island in the nineteen-fifties.
The two big New York-based ballet companies perform at Lincoln Center, and Dance Theatre of Harlem returns.
Most of the theatre season deals with the lives of mere Muggles.