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He helped create Buckwheat, Mister Robinson and other characters Mr. Murphy played on “Saturday Night Live,” and was a writer of films like “Coming to America.”

A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.

“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.

New works, “The Post Office” and “Constance: A Confession,” and a revival of Barber’s “Vanessa” show companies attempting to capture these nebulous times.

Julie Mehretu and John Jasperse are collaborating at the Marian Goodman Gallery: “How do we bring something to each other’s work that feels productive?”

Listen to Kurt Vile’s poetic rock, Nia Archives’s electric earworm and a new tune from Mike D.

The writer and illustrator William Steig lived several lives before his book about a surly ogre became a Hollywood hit.

This season “Saturday Night Live” found new ways to satirize the Trump administration and said goodbye to one of its most valuable cast members.

Tall and self-possessed, with an air of wit and sophistication, she was superb in works by Mozart and Strauss, and was also a wide-ranging recitalist.

The fast success of this play, about the children’s author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.