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A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell's anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë's ruthless text will always have the last word.
Emerald Fennell's brazen take on the classic has both exhilarated and infuriated viewers. What does an adaptation owe to its source material?
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths.
The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town.
On a visit to New York, the actor reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on "Colbert" that went viral.
If you're on your phone: Clara and Desmond are spies, and they are meeting at a church in Paris. Their names, again, are Clara and Desmond, and they are spies.
The event's theme: Fugitives.
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.
