Donald Shoup, a professor of urban studies whose provocative and occasionally amusing 734-page treatise on the economics of parking sparked reforms in thousands of cities, helping reduce traffic, create green space and make cities more walkable, died on Feb. 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. The cause was a stroke, his … Read more
Cynthia Erivo, the Tony Award-winning actress whose Oscar-nominated performance in the “Wicked” film has brought her wide recognition, will host this year’s Tony Awards. The American Theater Wing and the Broadway League — the two organizations that present the awards — announced on Wednesday that Erivo would host the ceremony on June 8 at Radio … Read more
Ordinarily, the actor-writer-musician Todd Almond is a pretty unflappable stage presence. But normal rules do not apply when you discover at intermission that Bob Dylan is in the audience of the performance you’re giving of a musical that’s saturated with his songs — and your harmonica solo is coming up. “I don’t know if you’ve … Read more
Mr. Stern’s life was as colorful, confusing and sometimes chaotic as his art. He was born Gerd Jacob Stern in Oct. 12, 1928, to a Jewish family in the Saar, a German-speaking region administered by France and Britain under a mandate from the League of Nations. After the Saar was incorporated into Nazi Germany in … Read more
Lawyers for Sean Combs filed a motion on Tuesday night seeking the dismissal of one of the sex trafficking charges he is facing, arguing that the hip-hop mogul is being unfairly prosecuted based on his race. Mr. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn … Read more
Our “Read Your Way Around the World” series has brought readers book recommendations from writers in Paris, Cairo, Seoul, Buenos Aires and 40 other literary destinations. And at every step of the way, readers have responded — arguing for their favorite books in the comments sections, debating with each other and often surprising us with … Read more
The Metropolitan Opera, which has championed contemporary opera in recent years as it works to attract new audiences, announced on Wednesday that it would bring three modern titles to its stage in the 2025-26 season. The company will open the season in September with the New York City premiere of Mason Bates’s “The Amazing Adventures … Read more
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 stolen artifacts over the past … Read more
Luckey wanted to be a singer from childhood. Born in 1960, she grew up in Neptune Township, N.J., and sang in her church choir. At 18, she moved to New York to try to make it in music and met William Garvey, with whom she recorded “Goodbye Horses,” and Dan Agren, who was her backup … Read more
Jack Quaid can guess what people must think of him: Entitled. Overconfident. A jerk, no doubt about it. “Who I am comes with a certain expectation,” he said over breakfast — black coffee, fruit plates — on a Thursday in late January. Quaid, 32, is the son of the actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. … Read more