Mr. Payne, a former member of the boy band One Direction, died after falling from a third-story hotel balcony in October.
Category: Arts
José Andrés Picked a Bad Time to Give His Daughter ‘Charlotte’s Web’
In an email interview, the founder of World Central Kitchen explained why “food is resistance” and named the book which “lit a fire in me that still burns.” SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? A mix! “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor …
With Telescoping Crutches and Hexapod Legs, Dance Goes New Places
What are crutches for? To help an injured or disabled person get from Point A to Point B? Like most mobility devices, crutches are often designed and viewed in a matter-of-fact medical framework. There is a problem to be fixed; the device is the …
Review: Embracing the Humor in Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’
The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits.
‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.
This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.
Dishing With the Stars of ‘Nonnas’
Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro, Talia Shire and Susan Sarandon discuss playing cooks in a new film, aging in Hollywood and the movies that their grandchildren cannot yet watch.
After Wandering, a Trumpeter Hones His Sound at Home
“To get here, it hasn’t been a yellow brick road. Even now, it’s not no damn yellow brick road,” the trumpeter and composer Brandon Woody said on a video call from a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel room. It was mid-March and Woody, 26, was in between tour …
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore Rollins: the “saxophone colossus.” Jazz’s Prometheus, its Siddhartha and its heavyweight champ. Or, as Nate Chinen once put it in a New York Times review of one of Rollins’s marathon-like concerts, “the great unflagging sovereign of …
A Spectacular R.P.G. Has Balletic Combat and Powerful Twists
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, about an attempt to free a Paris-like city from a disturbing ritual, has challenging turn-based combat and an emotionally powerful narrative.
13 Off Broadway Shows to See in May
Hugh Jackman in “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” and Maya Hawke in the title role of “Eurydice” — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.