Photo A scene from “Streepshow!,” with many incarnations of Meryl Streep, at the Connelly Theater. Credit Skye Morse-Hodgson If your knowledge of Meryl Streep’s screen work is superficial, “Streepshow!” could drive you mad with frustration. But then Jay Stull’s new play may have that effect even if you know your …

Toby Melville | Reuters Flames and smoke billow as firefighters deal with a serious fire in a tower block at Latimer Road in West London, Britain on June 14, 2017. A huge fire engulfed a 27-storey block of flats in central London on Wednesday injuring a number of people. Massive …

The author’s mother, Lillian, was a different story. She got sober when Alexie was 7 but stayed mean. Alexie describes her as “dead-salmon cold” and “army-ant intense.” She was, in his telling, a pathological liar. Lillian’s death in 2015 seems to have been a primary catalyst for this garrulous and …

Photo Debargo Sanyal, left, as a cat, and Curran Connor as a dog in Leah Nanako Winkler’s “Linus and Murray,” at Ensemble Studio Theater. Credit Gerry Goodstein Two sisters bake a tuna casserole to honor a friend in Series B of the latest Ensemble Studio Theater one-act play marathons, now …

China Daily | Reuters The first C919 passenger jet made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is pulled out next to a Chinese national flag during a news conference at the company’s factory in Shanghai, Nov. 2, 2015. China’s factory output grew 6.5 percent in May from a …

Photo “Kesh Alphabet,” an installation by Emily Floyd in the foyer of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Credit David Maurice Smith for The New York Times SYDNEY, Australia — After four years of uncertainty and controversy, a proposed expansion to Sydney’s premier art museum, the Art Gallery of …

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, June 13, 2017. President Donald Trump has “no intention” of firing special counsel Robert Mueller, a White House spokeswoman told reporters on Tuesday. “While the president has the right to, he …

Photo From left, John Earl Jelks, Carlo Albán, Johanna Day, Michelle Wilson and Allison Wright in the play “Sweat,” which will close on June 25. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Sweat,” Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play about the woes of the American working class, will close …

Photo From left, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Mina Nishimura, Lily Gold and Anna Azrieli in “Let It Linger” by Vicky Shick, at the Kitchen. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times “Let It Linger” is a curious title for a dance by the choreographer Vicky Shick. Letting anything linger is not something …

Gary Hershorn | Getty Images A person walks past the logo of Time Inc. in the lobby of their headquarters in lower Manhattan in New York City. Time Inc. said on Tuesday it is eliminating 300 positions, or 4 percent of its workforce, through layoffs and buyouts, according to an …