Jasperse’s engrossing “Tides” was a thrilling opener to a festival that often feels like a home for first drafts.
Category: Arts
Reality TV Wades Into Cross-Generational Dating Pools
Bravo’s “Love Hotel” and ABC’s “Bachelor in Paradise” are widening the age range of prospective love matches.
Review: Yunchan Lim Embraces the Journey of Bach’s ‘Goldbergs’
The 21-year-old pianist turned the great set of variations into the story of a young man’s maturation from innocence to experience.
Rick Atkinson Makes the American Revolution Come Brilliantly Alive
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
A Graphic Novelist Digs Up His Childhood, One Ginseng Root at a Time
Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.
Immigration Has Always Been Complex. Just Ask the People Who Built U.S. Railroads.
In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’
A rehearsal of “The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, was just a few days old this month when the tenor who plays Donald J. Trump began to sing. “They are animals! Monsters …
My Life With Uncle Vanya, the Self-Pitying Sad Sack We Can’t Quit
What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?
New York City’s Creative Churn: The View From the Dance Floor
Ever wanted to do the Lindy Hop as it was swung at the Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s? To rock your hips through the mambo like dancers at the Palladium Ballroom in the ’50s? To pose as if in a vogue battle of the ’80s? All in a museum? Now’s your …
‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life
On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.