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After captivating audiences as the glamorous Astrid in “Crazy Rich Asians,” Gemma Chan was sent quite a few scripts with dignified but unhappy wives. She sensed trouble ahead. “There’s a danger of being typecast,” she said. “But I’m still a work-in-progress pushing back on that. I want to do something different and show something different … Read more

The hottest play on Broadway was written more than 400 years ago. Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal face off in Shakespeare’s “Othello” is so strong that many center orchestra seats are selling for $921, helping the show break box office records. During its first week of previews, its average ticket price was … Read more

A corner of New York hasn’t seemed quite itself since the Frick Collection shuttered during Covid for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment. For a while the museum that luxuriates in Henry Clay Frick’s Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue decamped with its old masters and other art to Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum … Read more

Lawyers for Sean Combs argued at a court hearing on Friday that a leaked security video showing Mr. Combs assaulting his former girlfriend was “deceptive,” and said they would request that it not be allowed as evidence at his upcoming trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. That video, recorded at a Los … Read more

Bon Iver featuring Danielle Haim, ‘If Only I Could Wait’ Doubts and yearning — and electronics and distortion — threaten to overcome Justin Vernon, who performs as Bon Iver, in “If Only I Could Wait” from his coming album, “Sable, Fable.” He wonders, “Can I incur the weight? / Am I really this afraid now?” … Read more

Dear listeners, Early March is such a tease, occasionally giving us a fleeting preview of desperately desired springtime — only to snatch it away with yet another dreary, blustery, 30-something-degree day. You know the saying: “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Since we’ve finally almost reached that fabled calendrical turning point in the … Read more

Before the lights go down at the start of “Terrestrial: The Sprout,” Germaine Ingram enters, looking regal and wise. She mounts a thronelike platform and about 70 minutes later, at the work’s end, she rises and sings powerfully deep notes and then vanishingly high ones. In between, she holds court by sitting and watching. “Terrestrial: … Read more

‘The Paragon’ Stream it on Amazon Prime Video. The last time a dryly zany comedy from New Zealand involving fantastical shenanigans made me laugh this much, it was the original “What We Do in the Shadows.” Michael Duignan’s new film may not quite reach that level, but it is still very funny. A former tennis … Read more

Herman Graf, a major and intrepid figure in independent publishing who sold copies of Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” to bookstores after it was embroiled in a legal fight over whether it was obscene, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Flushing, Queens. He was 91. His nephew Paul Lichter said the cause … Read more

At the same time, what does that sense of optimism even mean if it is predicated on Ben’s suffering? Can they all really look forward to a future as he wastes away? At this point, keeping him breathing is not kind. When they all realize he has been on something of a hunger strike, Misty … Read more