Charlie Hebdo Award at PEN Gala Sparks More Debate
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
The debate over a literary honor for Charlie Hebdo may take on greater urgency after the shootings outside a Texas conference.
Paul Appleby, left, as Tom, and Gerald Finley as his nemesis, in a revival of Jonathan Miller’s production of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” at the Metropolitan Opera.
The revival of Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of Stravinsky’s opera included sparkling music laced with a delicious dose of acerbic deviancy.
Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress, said she was hopeful of change when Native American actors walked off a set.
Mainstream portrayals of native peoples remain far from accurate, critics say, and reflect a lack of opportunities for performers.
Timur Vermes with his book “Look Who’s Back.” A movie version is scheduled for release in Germany this fall.
The book’s success is evidence of a generational shift, a sense that 70 years after the Nazis, it’s time to use dark humor to address Germany’s past.
The debate over a literary honor for Charlie Hebdo may take on greater urgency after the shootings outside a Texas conference.
In many ways, the show was business as usual for Mr. Clapton, whose mature performance style has always suggested a master clinician more than a showman.
The band known for revitalized folk-rock traded banjos for electric guitars in their latest album.
Lyrics about openness, flow and mind-body dualism, along with cavernous reverb and heavy-foot midrange tempos, resonate on the band’s new album.
Mr. Prieto, the Cuban-born drummer, and his sextet demonstrate a breadth of style and evoke the jazz of Wynton Marsalis and Henry Threadgill.
“Hunting Season,” whose second season starts on Tuesday, rolls out an expanded format with shows closer to 20 minutes long.
Five young New Yorkers are featured in Ping Chong + Company’s new work of interview-based theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.
Ms. Packer, the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., examines Shakespeare’s heroines in this book, which grew out of her play.
Ms. Kind performed songs from the 1960s and beyond in her return to 54 Below.
Dancers chose stories, mainly from the Carpathian Mountain region, and the choreographer brought them into the present in this work, which had its New York premiere at Lightbox.
The most successful works for this project tend to capitalize on the students’ intelligence without making them fake greater experience than they have.
Artsy and UBS teamed up with the director Oscar Boyson on “A Short History of the World’s Most Important Art Exhibition.”
After appearing in the first eight episodes of “Star Trek,” she was written out of the series and struggled with addiction to alcohol.
New technology allows the nursery rhymes on the talking toys’ cylinders, the first entertainment recordings, to be played without being touched.
Tony Award-nominated actors on the moment they knew they were destined for the stage.
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