Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail.
Category: Arts
Poems That Lean Into Calm and Joy Amid Life’s Chaos
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.
‘Andor’ Shows How a Resistance Is Built, One Brick at a Time
In the best of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, returning for its final season, fighting fascism is more than just a joyride.
Jeremy Jordan, Searching for Challenges Onstage
In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic restrictions.
Maggie & Terre Roche’s 1975 LP Is a Revelation. Why Is It Forgotten?
“Seductive Reasoning,” a flop that preceded the Roches’ debut, has a fluctuating sonic palette, contributions from Paul Simon and the sisters’ most brilliant songwriting.
Climate Activists Interrupt New York City Ballet Performance
Protesters interrupted an all-Balanchine program on the company’s spring season opening night, which coincided this year with Earth Day.
Theo Von Dismantles the Interview Show
Is Theo Von podcasting from the right or the left? That depends from where you’re looking. When he sat with Donald Trump last summer in the run-up to the presidential election, he led a surprisingly affecting and humanizing conversation about drugs …
‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Review: An Origin Story for the Stage
This Broadway production delivers lots of spectacle as it winds back to the teenage years of Henry Creel, an antagonist from the Netflix series.
Death, Taxes and Ben Affleck: ‘The Accountant’ Gets a Sequel
In the movie class of 2016, “The Accountant” was a wild-card. It told an original story for adults, breaking from the family-friendly intellectual property derivatives that crowded the top of the box office charts. And though it resembled a durable …
Lorde Planned a Surprise Show in New York. Surprise: There Was No Show.
The singer summoned fans to an impromptu performance in Washington Square Park Tuesday night. She neglected to get a permit. But there was one more surprise to come.