Photo The actor and stand-up comedian Mario Cantone will make his Café Carlyle debut next week. Credit Kevin Yatarola Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. MARIO CANTONE at Café Carlyle (June 20-23, 8:45 p.m.). Probably most famous for his turn as Anthony on “Sex and the City” and …

Now the exhibition organizers were asking Ms. Shaw, an author of books and essays on race and culture, to dig deeper into Wyeth — “a mythic figure in Chadds Ford,” said Audrey Lewis, the Brandywine curator and an organizer the show, but one whose paintings of black subjects still intrigue …

Photo Brandon Collwes in “Tenderizer,” choreographed by Sally Silvers, at Roulette in Brooklyn. Credit Paula Court A good book or festival could now be assembled about the works of art that have been inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock. There are, for example, the opera of “Notorious,” the play …

Mr. Lee said in an interview that in an early part of the work, “Establishing,” the piano’s middle D gave him “these two particular overtones that just dance back and forth,” creating “a wonderful little melody above the single strike of a note.” During the section’s higher D notes, Mr. …

As Wall Street digests Amazon’s $13.7 billion offer to buy Whole Foods Market, Jim Cramer flagged some key events and reports on the horizon that could further sway the market. “It’s tough to come back to earth after trying to explore the implications of the most disruptive, most game-changing takeover …

The S&P 500 closed the week essentially unchanged, the Dow Jones industrial average rose slightly and the Nasdaq Composite was just a hair negative. As crude oil turned in its fourth straight week of losses, Miller Tabak equity strategist Matt Maley discusses three key themes he is watching for next …

In the same vein, but with a much different subject, he was planning to slow down “Trio A,” a work defined by its anti-virtuosity and refusal of the spectator. (Even when facing front, the dancer never looks directly at the audience.) Each seven-second phrase, recorded at 1,000 frames per second, …

Bettman Collection | Getty Images Leaders of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada during NAFTA treaty signing in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 7, 1992. Pact didn’t formally go into effect until 1994. With NAFTA modernization negotiations around the corner, Canada’s winning strategy is essentially staying quiet says a former Canadian prime …

Darrow’s tale of his mighty vindication of the Sweets and their co-defendants culminates with a heroic Greek athlete pose and the declaration “This time we won!” Then he hustles on to another anecdote. But what may have been the end of the story for Darrow wasn’t for Dr. Sweet and …

Energy IPOs picked back up late last year, as major oil exporters agreed to cut production, buoying prices firmly above $50 a barrel. That bolstered U.S. drillers, who had already driven down the cost of producing oil from U.S. shale fields using a process called hydraulic fracturing to free oil …