- Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleansby Jesse Green on 25 Apr 2025
A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.
- Trump Administration Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Statuesby Jennifer Schuessler on 24 Apr 2025
Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Review: As New York’s Opera Scene Empties, Another Rises Upstateby Zachary Woolfe on 24 Apr 2025
R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak landscape for Baroque work.
- ‘Game Changer’ Is a Fun and Unpredictable Game Showby Margaret Lyons on 24 Apr 2025
Now in its seventh season, the show puts its comedian contestants through a weird and wide-ranging variety of funny and endearing challenges.
- Andrea Nevins, Who Made Touching Films on Quirky Topics, Dies at 63by Clay Risen on 24 Apr 2025
Her documentaries, one of which received an Oscar nomination, explored subjects like punk-rock dads and Barbie dolls.
- 8 Standouts at the AIPAD Photography Fairby Will Heinrich on 24 Apr 2025
This year’s colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting capsule history of the medium.
- After ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Malfunction, Nicole Scherzinger Sings With Bullhornby Michael Paulson on 24 Apr 2025
The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.
- ‘The Trouble With Jessica’ Review: Dinner Party or Crime Scene?by Beatrice Loayza on 24 Apr 2025
This British black comedy, starring Indira Varma, centers on a group of wealthy middle-aged friends with fraught histories.
- ‘Until Dawn’ Review: They Keep Dying, You’ll Keep Shruggingby Erik Piepenburg on 24 Apr 2025
Based on a video game, this movie is done in by mediocre monsters and muddled time loops.
- ‘Havoc’ Review: Tom Hardy Is Primed for a Fightby Robert Daniels on 24 Apr 2025
Tom Hardy is a crooked cop looking to make amends in Gareth Evans’s action-packed film.
- Detroit Art Institutions Resist Political Challenges to Diversityby Leslie Wayne on 24 Apr 2025
Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black voices will not change.
- Masahiro Shinoda, Leading Light of Japan’s New Wave Cinema, Dies at 94by Ash Wu on 24 Apr 2025
His films tapped into the fantasies of disgruntled youth by embracing brazen sexuality and countercultural politics. But unlike his peers, he did not shun tradition.
- Yale Will Teach a Course on Bad Bunny’s Cultural Impactby Alex Vadukul on 24 Apr 2025
With a new fall offering, Yale becomes the latest university to offer a course on the cultural impact of the Puerto Rican star.
- A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Woundsby Michael Kimmelman on 24 Apr 2025
The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.
- With ‘Étoile,’ Amy Sherman-Palladino Gives Ballet Another Whirlby Roslyn Sulcas on 24 Apr 2025
Her “Bunheads” and other ballet shows were canceled quickly. This new series, created with her husband, centers on fictional companies in New York and Paris.
- Ben Affleck on ‘The Accountant 2,’ Hollywood and Learning to Line Danceby Reggie Ugwu on 24 Apr 2025
The director and the writer of the surprisingly successful “Accountant” franchise join Affleck to discuss its origins, getting ahead in Hollywood and learning to line dance.
- Overlooked Letter Rewrites History of Shakespeare’s Bad Marriageby Ephrat Livni on 24 Apr 2025
New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
- The N.B.A.’s Hidden Game: Arranging Courtside Celebritiesby Emmanuel Morgan on 24 Apr 2025
Atlanta is a movie production hub and the home to prominent rappers, so the Hawks have dedicated resources to recruit famous faces like Anne Hathaway and Gucci Mane.
- Juilliard Plans $550 Million Drive to Go Tuition Freeby Javier C. Hernández on 24 Apr 2025
The goal is to make the school’s programs more accessible and to ease the burden on graduates pursuing careers in the arts.
- Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studioby Rachel Sherman and Mohamed Sadek on 24 Apr 2025
Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.
- ‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: A Whole World Insideby Alissa Wilkinson on 24 Apr 2025
A gorgeously intimate debut feature explores the lives of Chinese immigrants in a massage parlor in Queens.
- A New Requirement for Oscar Voters: They Must Actually Watch the Filmsby Derrick Bryson Taylor on 24 Apr 2025
The new rule, announced this week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was greeted with laughter and disbelief that it had not been required all along.
- Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’ Wont Be Shown in Georgiaby Beatrice Loayza on 24 Apr 2025
The director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s new movie, “April,” shines a light on the complicated situation for women seeking abortions in Georgia.
- ‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirtby Laura Collins-Hughes on 24 Apr 2025
Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.
- ‘Andor’ Shows How a Resistance Is Built, One Brick at a Timeby James Poniewozik on 24 Apr 2025
In the best of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, returning for its final season, fighting fascism is more than just a joyride.
- In Philadelphia, Art Shows by Women Teem With Eros and Audacityby Deborah Solomon on 24 Apr 2025
Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
- A Brazilian Artist’s Plates Come to Upper Manhattanby Celia McGee and George Etheredge on 24 Apr 2025
New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her first solo museum exhibit in New York.
- ‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemmaby Manohla Dargis on 24 Apr 2025
In this, her second feature, the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili takes on the risks faced by an obstetrician who performs kitchen-table abortions.
- Ai Weiwei Installation Coming to Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Islandby Zachary Small on 24 Apr 2025
The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.
- ‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Droll Delightby Natalia Winkelman on 24 Apr 2025
Amalia Ulman’s playful second feature follows an American television crew that lands in rural Argentina.
- ‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Roadby Glenn Kenny on 24 Apr 2025
The comedy duo celebrates a partnership that they just can’t quit in this celebratory documentary.
- 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to in April 2025on 24 Apr 2025
An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights.
- ‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Putting It All on the Lineby Alissa Wilkinson on 24 Apr 2025
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi lead a melancholic drama about love and longing in the 1950s.
- ‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Revenge of the Killer Nerdby Manohla Dargis on 24 Apr 2025
Affleck returns as a brilliant C.P.A. who moonlights as a mysterious, gun-toting fixer and gets help from his little bro, played by Jon Bernthal.
- Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the Cityby Hilarie M. Sheets on 24 Apr 2025
An ambitious citywide exhibition will feature 20 public art commissions at outdoor venues and partnering museums.
- A Peanuts Museum Exhibition in Miami Teaches Childrenby Shivani Vora on 24 Apr 2025
The Miami Children’s Museum marks the moment with an exhibition that includes Snoopy, Lucy and more that will travel across the country for almost a decade.
- Adam Pendleton’s New Show, in D.C., Demands Deep Thoughtby Pierre-Antoine Louis on 24 Apr 2025
The new show at the Hirshhorn Museum, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen,” plumbs the past, the idea of presence and the possibilities of what painting could be.
- The Sculptor Otobong Nkanga Reflects on All The Land Containsby Dale Berning Sawa on 24 Apr 2025
Otobong Nkanga’s boundary-breaking and prize-winning art is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
- Henry Clay Frick Built His Collection With Passion and Patienceby Milton Esterow on 24 Apr 2025
Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose renovated Fifth Avenue mansion recently reopened.
- Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Elon Musk’s Plan to ‘Get Out of DOGE’by Trish Bendix on 24 Apr 2025
“Musk says that he will dial back his work with the government so that he can spend more time with all 10 of his families,” Kimmel said.
- Review: From Kyle Abraham, Saxophones and Sculptural Shapesby Brian Seibert on 24 Apr 2025
On a program of New York premieres at the Joyce Theater, Abraham’s contribution stands out and so do his dancers.
- Marco Grassi, Who Brought Old Paintings Back to Life, Dies at 90by Adam Nossiter on 24 Apr 2025
As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters.
- Theo Von Dismantles the Interview Showby Jon Caramanica on 24 Apr 2025
The comedian and podcaster is one of the defining conversationalists of media’s new MAGA-friendly mainstream. But he can be harder to pin down, politically and culturally, than his bro-cast peers.
- Sandra Poulson Shares Her Favorite Artworksby Yaniya Lee on 23 Apr 2025
Sandra Poulson discusses Louise Bourgeois, Angolan humor and cheap wood.
- At the American Museum of Natural History, a Look to Outer Spaceby Alina Tugend on 23 Apr 2025
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is making the most of it.
- Review: Little Adds Up in the Elusive ‘Grief Camp’by Elisabeth Vincentelli on 23 Apr 2025
Les Waters’s production for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, despite the limitations of the play’s often maddening script.
- Jelly Roll Should Be Pardoned for Drug and Robbery Offenses, Board Saysby Emmanuel Morgan on 23 Apr 2025
The Tennessee Board of Parole unanimously determined that the country star should be pardoned, but the decision is in the hands of the governor.
- Museum Told to Surrender Schiele Drawing to Heirs of Man Killed by Nazisby Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg on 23 Apr 2025
A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp.
- These Are the Artists on the Turner Prize Shortlistby Alex Marshall on 23 Apr 2025
This year’s nominees for the prestigious art award include Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi painter, and Zadie Xa, a Canadian installation artist.
- ‘North of North’ Is a Warm Arctic Comedyby Margaret Lyons on 23 Apr 2025
Set in a fictional Inuk community in Canada, this Netflix comedy shows abundant tenderness for its characters but also surprising depth and edge.
- Maggie & Terre Roche’s 1975 LP Is a Revelation. Why Is It Forgotten?by Dwight Garner on 23 Apr 2025
“Seductive Reasoning,” a flop that preceded the Roches’ debut, has a fluctuating sonic palette, contributions from Paul Simon and the sisters’ most brilliant songwriting.
- ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: An Origin Story for the Broadway Stageby Elisabeth Vincentelli on 23 Apr 2025
This Broadway production delivers lots of spectacle as it winds back to the teenage years of Henry Creel, an antagonist from the Netflix series.
- ‘Modern Love’ Podcast: You’re Probably Thinking About Boundaries All Wrongby Anna Martin, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Christina Djossa, Amy Pearl, Sara Curtis, Jen Poyant, Lynn Levy, Gianna Palmer, Daniel Ramirez, Elisheba Ittoop, Pat McCusker, Sonia Herrero and Carole Sabouraud on 23 Apr 2025
KC Davis, a therapist and author, on her new book, “Who Deserves Your Love.”
- With ‘Floyd Collins,’ Jeremy Jordan Finds Another Challenge Onstageby Elisabeth Vincentelli on 23 Apr 2025
In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic restrictions.
- At a Pennsylvania Museum, an Artist’s Glass Dome Provides Sanctuaryby Sarah Archer and Hannah Yoon on 23 Apr 2025
As the artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Judith Schaechter created a giant dome to spark joy. It’s now on view outside Philadelphia.
- A Philadelphia Museum Looks at the Food Fights Over School Lunchesby Shannon Eblen on 23 Apr 2025
A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years.
- A Silicon Valley Museum Weighs Tech’s Promises and Perilsby Alec Scott on 23 Apr 2025
Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach.
- Video Game Reviews of 2025by The New York Times on 23 Apr 2025
Our critics’ favorite games include the manic co-op adventure Split Fiction, the folklore-inflected South of Midnight and the tactically challenging Stone of Madness.
- Kimmel Likens the Selection of a New Pope to ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’by Trish Bendix on 23 Apr 2025
The late night host also described the papal conclave as determining “who will be handed the keys to the popemobile” on Tuesday.