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Novel collaborations with countries of origin allow objects in private U.S. collections to be repatriated and head for the Met on loan.

The poet and lyricist Gulzar has profoundly shaped the idea of tender romance in India through his verse and songs in more than 150 musicals.

Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state’s most beloved stories.

On “Danceteria,” releasing nearly a year after Dave Ball’s death, the synth-pop duo retreats into the grit and joy of downtown New York in the 1980s.

Robbie Fairchild’s dance-theater work premiering at Fall for Dance posits that Shakespeare poured the pain of same-sex longing into “Romeo and Juliet.”

When she started her new novel, Julie Orringer didn’t know that it would mirror the taxing medical challenges faced by her husband.

After opposing the Ukrainian war and settling in Latvia, Chulpan Khamatova now comes to New York to star in a dark comedy by Ionesco.

Joseph Herscher’s Rube Goldberg contraptions are viral hits online. A new live show adds a layer of choreographic complexity.

The 19th-century Long Island home that Peter Schlesinger shared with his late husband, Eric Boman, nearly defies the passage of time.

In the 1960s, having discovered a deep affection for the material, the artist Stephen Antonakos transformed his SoHo home into a kaleidoscopic fever dream.

These epic, star-spanning adventure stories blend interstellar action with political allegory and romantic drama. Here’s where to start.

A series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson airs. Three movies come to streaming.

Hal and John’s replacement Lantern, a flashy, image-obsessed former gym teacher, doesn’t seem like the best guy to repair the brand.

“Roll the Calls,” the new book by the Hollywood mogul, is an entertaining and expletive-filled read that surprisingly pulls some punches.

“I Play Rocky” and “Being Heumann” were the runners-up for the People’s Choice Award, which can be predictive of best picture at the Oscars.

The rapper unpacks the lyrics to more than two dozen of his songs and shares insights into his life with Rick Rubin, in a docuseries airing on HBO.

The comedians, who bought the decommissioned Staten Island Ferry in 2022, tested its sea legs at a one-night-only event sponsored by Snapple.

Back onstage, Sheeran acknowledged “mistakes” over the departure of supporting acts, and discussed the “horrific” attack on Israel and the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.

Fights, feuds and insults are all in a day’s work for Ari Emanuel, who offers an unvarnished look at his rapacious career in a new memoir.

Sotheby’s sold the rock at auction last year for $5.3 million. The government has now seized the 54-pound hunk of space debris — the largest meteorite from Mars ever auctioned.

After 18 years traveling Inwood and Washington Heights, the People’s Theater welcomes a $40 million permanent address.

The rising director Louisa Proske makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with the season-opening “Macbeth,” a large-scale production that came with a ticking timer.

Sheik’s song “Barely Breathing” spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1990s. But the success only propelled him closer to Broadway.

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

Films by Jesse Eisenberg, Lee Chang-dong and Hirokazu Kore-eda make up for an uneven program.

Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”

Courts have upheld the museum’s title to the paintings once looted by the Nazis, but a lawsuit seeks to press forward with the claim under a new California law.

Riley Green measures milestones, Grand Theft Audio VI flaunts collaboration, Kate Nash chooses to shout and more.

In Toronto, small jokes and big worries show how relations between the two countries affect not just politics.

The 90-year-old artist Lee Ufan on the importance of his morning stroll.

The director and writer Simon Stone updated the classic work to reflect the world we live in with this Korean-language adaptation at the Park Avenue Armory.

For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.

Now that his sons are out of the house, the actor said, “our dogs are now actually our kids, and they sit and watch TV with us.”

From “The Social Reckoning” in October to “Dune: Part Three” in December, these are the films we’re looking forward to.

Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman had bitter fights with her brother. With “My Brother David,” she tries to set things right.

The best-selling author Nina Simon recommends mystery novels where blood is thicker than murder.

In translating synth pop to a theatrical format in the “American Psycho” musical, Sheik matched what he did with rock in the acclaimed “Spring Awakening.”

On “A Different World” he helped define an era. With a Netflix reboot, he helps pass the torch to a new generation.

She understood teenagers before pop culture knew what to do with them, depicting them in cartoons as romantics, snobs, dreamers and social climbers.

The court, in a case involving the Art Institute of Chicago, said New York investigators should not have used a penal law that they have cited in more than 100 seizure cases.

This month’s picks include a British prison thriller, a Brazilian drama, an animated film from Japan and more.

“The Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves.

The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.

The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.

In adapting the old plot, the director-writer Simon Stone transports the story to a modern Korea from Russia in the early 1900s.

Missy Mazzoli, whose “Lincoln in the Bardo” opens at the Metropolitan Opera this fall, writes politically urgent, musically eclectic works for a new generation of operagoers.

The rising pop star talks songwriting with her BFF Gracie Abrams, knowing when to log off and the difference between being weird (yes!) and awkward (no way).

The boss fights in Control Resonant feel less like reflex challenges than visual spectacles that play with space and performance.

From Jim Jarmsuch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes” to David Byrne’s “True Stories,” this month’s films illustrate the power of storytelling.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

Yes, John Wilson’s weird but fun movie is nominally about the stuff sidewalks are made of, but as always with his work, it’s about so much more.

To film Hitler’s rise to power, the makers of “Babylon Berlin” relied on silent songs, postproduction tricks and tall barriers to stay within German law.

The studio Laika combined 3-D printing, motorized wings, nearly 12,000 glued feathers and years of animation to create the General.

In short stories and her racy new novel, Deesha Philyaw takes on women, piety and the clergymen who make, and break, the rules.

Nearly a week after opening night was canceled while patrons were in their seats, the musicians agreed to a four-year contract. The deal still needs to be ratified.

“If you want him to take the threat of A.I. seriously, it’s real simple: Tell him ChatGPT is about to release the Trump-Epstein files,” Kimmel said.

In Lena Khan’s dramedy, competitive Bollywood dance becomes a way for two friends to reckon with who they were before college, and who they’ve become.