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
That these characters are, as Hunter puts it, “versions of me had I not found offramps” does not make them less dramatically valid. In a way, as he has been discovering ever since, it makes them more so. If “A Case for the Existence of God,” from 2022, is about the struggle to have children, … Read more
Doctors and nurses who love Max’s “The Pitt” remember the moment they realized it wasn’t like other medical shows. Caitlin Dwyer, a charge nurse in Milwaukee, took note of a character’s decision — counterintuitive but medically correct — not to defibrillate a patient with a particular type of heart failure. Dr. Elizabeth Rempfer, an attending … Read more
Just to apply for the visa, he has to travel to another country, in Jordan, because the U.S. has no way for Palestinians who are living under occupation in the West Bank to apply. It’s like two weeks left and we don’t know will he even be able to travel. And if he travels to … Read more
For Kelsey McKinney, the author of the new book, “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” spreading a good story occupied a morally gray zone throughout her childhood. McKinney, who is also the former host of the podcast, “Normal Gossip,” talks with Modern Love’s Anna Martin about navigating the ups and … Read more
‘Pedro Páramo,’ ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ and More Streaming Gems
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Rat Race New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, has had a challenging start to his week, with four of … Read more