Arts
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At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review…
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Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’
In London, the Irish actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in a deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play, “A…
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‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood
A real-life case of infanticide is the basis of Alice Diop’s rigorous and wrenching courtroom drama.
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In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place
Inspired by the pioneering photographer William Christenberry, RaMell Ross moved to the Deep South and found fertile terrain. Now Pace…
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‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis
The Amazon thriller, starring Al Pacino, returns for Season 2 with its sights on the ultimate target: Hitler.
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5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design
“Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.
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Shakespeare in the Park Will Stage ‘Hamlet’ This Summer
Ato Blankson-Wood will star as the aggrieved prince in a modern-dress production directed by Kenny Leon.
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Jon Meacham Grew Up With Civil War Bullets in His Backyard
The presidential biographer was raised on a battlefield, so when he was dispirited by the state of the union, it…
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting
HBO’s video-game adaptation doesn’t reinvent the apocalypse genre. But it injects an undead story with new life.