In its 2025-26 season, New York City Ballet will welcome one dancer, Ryan Tomash, and bid farewell to another, Megan Fairchild, who will depart after 25 years with the company. “Megan is absolutely beloved by every single person here within our institution,” Wendy Whelan, City Ballet’s associate artistic director, said. “She’ll be a huge loss … Read more
No matter how you slice it, Liz Moore has arrived. This month, an adaptation of her blockbuster novel “Long Bright River” started streaming on Peacock. And her next book, “The God of the Woods,” now on the best-seller list for 36 weeks (and counting), will soon hit the million mark in sales — a distinction … Read more
In the run-up to last year’s Eurovision Song Contest final, Joost Klein was amped for victory. Klein, a Dutch pop star, was a favorite to win with “Europapa,” a madcap song in which he raps over a bouncy beat and circling piano riff about a journey through Europe. The track ends in a hyperfast dance … Read more
Do you have a question for our culture writers and editors? Ask us here. Q: What do you say to a friend at the stage door when their show was kind of terrible? Is there a “nonpliment” you’d recommend? There are three basic options here: Tell the truth, as a form of tough love. Find … Read more
History is integral to Danspace Project’s 50th-anniversary season. As part of “Danspace@50: The Work Is Never Done. Sanctuary Always Needed.,” a four-month festival of performances, screenings and conversations, spring programs pay homage to an older generation of dance artists with fresh takes on notable works from their careers. Dances can never really be brought back … Read more
by David Szalay Szalay’s new novel traces the life of a young man in Hungary who eventually makes his way to England, following him from troubled youth to immigrant success to tragic fall. Each chapter provides glimpses of the major stages of adulthood — first love, marriage, parenthood — interwoven with intervals of aimlessness, reinvention … Read more
Who exactly is in charge here? Is it the strutting general or his self-effacing ensign? The man celebrated for his “free and open nature” or the sociopath who keeps stockpiling secrets? That question has been occupying the minds of theatergoers and readers since Shakespeare’s “Othello” was first performed in London in the early 17th century. … Read more
Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, March 31-April 6. Details and times are subject to change. Certain circumstances of being a woman. In 2020 Nikki Boyer hosted a podcast in which she … Read more
Given what we have seen of Saxon this season, I am not sure he is the kind of guy who would give such a self-aware speech, saying things like, “If I’m not a success, I’m nothing, and I can’t handle being nothing.” (I can, however, believe that Tim would answer his son’s very real concerns … Read more
