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The annual National Prayer Breakfast “is supposed to be a normal, nonpartisan event,” Seth Meyers said, “but, of course, Donald Trump is incapable of being normal.”

The summer festival, held annually since 1967, will not take place as usual on the National Mall, which will instead host the president’s Great American State Fair.

Robby and Langdon finally collide, and the vibe is predictably tense. That sabbatical can’t some soon enough.

Highlights include the hall’s first “Ring,” cycles of sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart and a birthday celebration for Steve Reich.

The final installment in the trilogy reboot of “The Strangers,” a genuinely terrifying 2008 home invasion film, brings the masked nonsense to a close.

The final New York performance will be July 26, seven years after it opened; international and touring productions continue.

Morning show hosts have shown a vulnerable, candid side to their audiences before, but not like this.

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Keith Haring’s rollicking murals, John Duff’s gritty inventiveness and a group show focused on the human body.

The Galician director Oliver Laxe delivers a mesmerizing thriller about a man’s search for his lost daughter, set amid raves in the punishing Sahara.

After an unpopular name change, and its firing of the director responsible for it, the museum is working to rehabilitate its image.

A recent production of “Othello” proves that small creative flowers can grow between the dreary slabs of cultural concrete laid by the Communist Party.

The theories laid out by the aerospace engineer Gentry Lee in this new documentary may blow your mind.

Nobody put too much thought into reinventing the gonzo variety classic for its revival. That’s what makes it a delight.

As head of the New York Foundation for the Arts, he oversaw almost $23 million in grants and helped bring arts education to struggling schools.

Ten actors wear the crowns in Karin Coonrod’s production, which is rich with twilight revelation, at La MaMa in Manhattan.

Puerto Rican football players are thrilled that Spanish will resound at the Super Bowl. “The stage is bigger than the N.F.L. itself,” one lineman said.

Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here’s where to start.

This group show is less self-conscious than slicker surveys, but its offerings are just as worthwhile.

A new London production of the playwright’s masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.

Mr. Flower Fantastic, guest designer for the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show, lets his art speak for itself, never showing his face.

Listen to our experts’ selections from one of jazz’s great labels, with tracks from Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Gato Barbieri and more.

Luc Besson’s extravagantly silly twist on the timeless monster, played by Caleb Landry Jones, is deliciously operatic but ultimately a letdown.

Late night hosts were skeptical of a $7 million opening weekend for the new Amazon film about the first lady.

More than half the exhibited artists were from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia, giving visitors an opportunity to discover fresh voices.

Marvel’s character-driven show on Disney+ provides an intriguing alternative to the company’s big-screen spectacles.

In “DWI: Drinking With Instruments,” musicians played some thorny new music twice: the first sober, the second under the influence.

A group exhibition at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn takes an idiosyncratic look at the global textile trade.

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?

The rare murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing.

Shot in Iraq, this period piece depicts a young girl’s efforts to prepare for a celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

A shy young man is captivated by a hunky biker in this bold, funny and achingly tenderhearted B.D.S.M. romance.

This nearly three hour historical drama became Japan’s highest grossing live action film of all time, and for mostly good reason.

A nonbinary teenager pays a visit to their grandfather, a gay professor, in this intergenerational story that slips from sweet into cloying.

The Spanish actor Carmen Maura shines as a widow forced to sell her childhood home in Morocco in this film by Maryam Touzani.

The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.

She was a ubiquitous presence at London theaters and claimed to have inspired the name — and final words — of Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois.

After a stroke four years ago, the actor has changed how he approaches performances, including the one he’s become an awards favorite for.

The actor Harry Melling shed his image as Harry’s cruel cousin, Dudley Dursley — and his clothes — to star in the queer romance “Pillion.”

His tenor anchored generational hits like “Joy to the World” and “One” by one of pop music’s commercial powerhouses of the early 1970s.

The gift from Daria Wallach, a retired leader in the financial services industry, is to endow the company’s artistic director.

Miss Piggy began as a bit player, but a sassy attitude and a karate chop carried her to the pinnacle of pop culture. A new Muppets special premieres on Wednesday.

The architect Bruce Goff built a mind-blowing array of eccentric, occasionally campy buildings, which are featured in a joyful new show.

Watch these selections that highlight the range and evolution of Black film.

Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reminds us that photography has always had a complicated relationship with the truth.

McCurdy’s new book is a work of fiction, but writing it helped her work through some complicated memories from her own life.

This triumph of low-budget filmmaking will shimmer for a week at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Opera Philadelphia’s latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond.

Mona Hatoum’s work riffs on themes of conflict and displacement to highlight the instability of our times.

A new documentary, “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model,” about the TV series from the 2000s aims to lift the veil on the show. These moments helped define its thorny legacy.

“There’s so much in the pomp and circumstance and the rules of the world that comes through dance,” said Tom Verica, a director of the Netflix series.

The English band recorded a year of improvised sessions, then cut-and-pasted them into six songs. The result alienated its label, but enchanted fans for decades.

“Man, that is a real who’s who of ‘Who?’” Kosta mused about Turning Point USA’s concert as opposed to the halftime show led by Bad Bunny.

A new series from the creator of “Derry Girls” and an inside look at the world of competitive ice dancing are among the highlights this month.

The administration’s announcement to shut the center for a major overhaul led to a swirl of confusion and anxiety among performers and patrons about its future.

Standouts from the preshow ceremony including Turnstile, I’m With Her, Durand Bernarr and more.

A master of the grand gesture, he was as theatrical as his rooms, which were inspired by French chateaus and Italian palazzos. As he put it, “Why be ordinary?”

The museum says a Jewish collector received a fair price for the work in 1941. The heirs say sales from that time are considered to have been forced and void under French law.

A new work by the director Lorraine de Sagazan looks at a high-profile case that will soon be heard in a French court.

Not so fast. A new special from Raanan Hershberg shows how charged times can make for funnier jokes involving anxiety over Israel, Gaza and antisemitism.

In David Cale’s “The Unknown,” the actor plays 11 characters including a writer suffering the horrors of writer’s block and an unraveling mind.