Over the years, Lacombe has captured such iconic performers as Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, and Madonna (during the singer's volatile marriage to Sean Penn).
Actors are, by definition, an exhibitionist bunch. But they can also be deeply protective of a process that requires them to dive inside themselves before resurfacing with pearls of performa…
Best Direction by a Woman"Just Kidding, This Category Will Be Replaced by a Montage from "Annie II: Hip-Hop Don't Stop (Singing About 2morrow) Featuring D.J. Daddy Big Buckz"
The stage of the Delacorte Theatre, in Central Park, was glistening on Monday evening with what remained of an earlier rainfall, while the sky overhead was heavy and gray. These were not the…
On Sunday, just hours after three men launched an assault on London Bridge, British Prime Minister Theresa May stepped in front of 10 Downing Street and told the world, "We believe …
The sculptor Joy Brown creates enormous bronze humanoid figures, and, on a recent Monday night, nine of them arrived in the city on flatbed trucks, to be installed on the Upper West Side. Th…
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As we heard the news from Manchester, it was hard not to feel especially devastated by the age of Ariana Grande's fans: the youngest confirmed victim, Saffie Rose Roussos, was just eight yea…
"I've never been a girl-woman," Elizabeth Marvel said recently. "I've always been a Woman with a capital 'W.'Â " With her deep timbre and penetrating eyes, the forty-seven-year-old actress…
Mark Mulcahy is the kind of musician that people proselytize about; several years ago, I started doing it myself. He's has had a long and varied career"with his band Miracle Legion, begin…
"A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society," Henrik Ibsen wrote in 1878, proving himself, in 2017 parlance, to be a woke bae. He …
When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play "God of Vengeance" at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. L. Peretz, told him to burn it. It's a shtetl tragedy: a Jewish brothel ow…
Among the signifiers of a New York summer"the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair"is the sound of blank verse. Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-August a…
This is a good time to take Florine Stettheimer seriously. The occasion is a retrospective of the New York artist, poet, designer, and Jazz Age saloniste, at the Jewish Museum, titled "Flori…
Imagine writing yourself the role of a lifetime, only to be replaced by a photogenic, puppy-eyed celebrity version of yourself. Such was the fate of Dave Malloy, the writer, composer, and or…
"Twenty years ago, Brooklyn was the Wild West. Now if you want grimy you come here," a bar-side patron explained. He was talking about Monroe, the latest offering in the area, south of Manha…
It seems like a lifetime ago that "Hamilton" swept the 2016 Tony nominations and pointed us toward a bright, progressive future. This year's nominations, which were announced Tuesday morn…
What's sweeter than a rags-to-riches story? Cinderella, Little Orphan Annie, Eliza Doolittle"all made the journey from poverty to the palace, and all have been the subjects of Broadway music…
Bette Midler is such an incredible self-creation"an artist like no other"that finding roles that can harness her enormous energy while allowing room for her wit and her extraordinary skill a…
It's not easy to describe what Randy Weiner does for a living. Some people call him an "impresario," but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum. With h…
What did you do this morning? Perhaps you woke up at your regular time, made coffee in the same machine that you did yesterday, took the same commute to work that you do every day. In adult …
Golden tickets, Oompa Loompas, the great glass elevator: the world that Roald Dahl conjured in his 1964 children's novel, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," was as fanciful as it was menac…
Allison Janney spiralled, cranelike, up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. She stopped in front of a Kandinsky""Black Lines" (1913), a jumble of Technicolor splotches"and gasped. "My gosh, t…
"Beauty and the Beast"