Conan O'Brien Is Ready for the Oscars
The comedian and television host talks about the decline of late night, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner, and why he loves when things go wrong onstage.
The comedian and television host talks about the decline of late night, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner, and why he loves when things go wrong onstage.
Also: the actions and art work of Lotty Rosenfeld, mixed-martial-arts sparring in the play "The Monsters," a cocktail adventure at Oddball, and more.
We think we need space to be creative"but that might have it exactly backward.
Jamian Juliano-Villani's paintings hang in the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Her latest venue? An antifascist-superhero exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera.
For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness's mounting toll.
Also: the primordial silhouettes of Simone Fattal, the indie-folk soundscapes of Florist, Rachel McAdams in "Send Help," and more.
The Canadian actress's oddball utterances became lasting comedic earworms, among them her one-word scream in "Home Alone": "Kevin!"
Will an A.I. restoration of "The Magnificent Ambersons" right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?
In "The Copywriter," by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset.
A new book presents the baseball legend's testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee as a critical psychic injury in the annals of Black celebrity.
In a wry Profile of the British-born art dealer Joseph Duveen, Behrman captures the workings of a canny commercial intelligence wreathed in connoisseurship and charm.
Also: the dream-pop of Hatchie, Elevator Repair Service tackles "Ulysses," the theatre-district pub Haswell Green, and more.
Two plays soaked in technological anxiety.
Not everyone can be Shakespeare. That's why a photo-free dating app is holding a workshop for users to polish their love language.
The cast of the musical, now at Lincoln Center, visits the Morgan Library to check out all the treasures that would have been lost if the plot had gone another way.
In his centenary year, the increasingly revered composer offers an uneasy refuge from the algorithmic din.
Inside a playhouse now owned by A24, a new restaurant offers frogs' legs, a killer cheeseburger, and a heavy dose of haute-theatrical glamour.
Ryan Murphy attempts to comment on incels, celebrity culture, and the age of Ozempic in a new FX series about a drug that makes its users young and gorgeous"at a terrible price.
On a break from playing Oedipus in the new Broadway production, the British actor stops by Federal Hall to chat politics, family dynamics, and being mistaken for Stanley Tucci.
On the most irreversible form of dissent, in art and in real life.
The star of "The Testament of Ann Lee" and "The Housemaid" discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith.
For the concert soloist Steven Isserlis, the perfect instrument is a blessing"and a curse.
Also: Jodie Foster's new movie, New York City Ballet's winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more.
The costume designer Miyako Bellizzi has worked with the Safdie Brothers for years. Picking out Timothée Chalamet's boxers was a new challenge.