Below are edited excerpts from our conversation. What can opera do that spoken plays can’t? When you’re a writer, it’s what Shaw says: All writing aspires to the quality of music. No matter how great the writing is in a play, it’s always going through the prison house of language; …

Olivier Douliery | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Immelt, then-chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co, speaks with an attendee during a meeting with President Donald Trump, not pictured, and manufacturing executives in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Members of President Donald …

Best Shout-Out to the Playwright Who Got You a Tony Photo Cynthia Nixon won best featured actress in a play for her performance in “The Little Foxes.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Accepting her award for “The Little Foxes,” Cynthia Nixon struck one of the night’s more political notes …

Wang Zhao | AFP | Getty Images Travis Kalanick, CEO of the global ridesharing service Uber. The reset has finally come. Uber’s board unanimously accepted the recommendations in a report by former Attorney General Eric Holder following an investigation into the company’s culture. Longtime CEO Travis Kalanick may take a …

Even a cursory reading of the play, the kind that many American teenagers give it in high school, is enough to show that it does not advocate assassination. Shakespeare portrays the killing of Caesar by seven of his fellow senators as an unmitigated disaster for Rome, no matter how patriotic …

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO, holds an iPad Pro after his keynote address to Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. Over the past couple of months we’ve issued a couple of warnings against Apple products. It wasn’t a good …

Photo Elizabeth Marvel as Antony, left, Tina Benko as Calpurnia and Gregg Henry as Caesar in a preview of “Julius Caesar” at Delacorte Theater in Central Park last month. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times New York’s Public Theater lost financial support from two high-profile corporate donors, Delta Air Lines …

Getty Images A visitor stands in front of a painting entitled ‘Masterpiece,’ during a press preview of ‘Lichtenstein, a Retrospective’ at the Tate Modern on February 18, 2013 in London. Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen is back — and he’s spending bigger than ever. An avid art collector, Cohen paid …

Axel Schmidt | Getty Image French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference at the Chancellery on May 15, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. French President Emmanuel Macron’s nascent political party has stormed past its traditional rivals in the first round of voting in parliamentary elections which took place Sunday. The …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians walk past a Gymboree store in San Francisco, California. Gymboree has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The children’s clothing retailer announced the move Monday morning, only a few weeks after it partnered with a turnaround firm, AlixPartners, to assist with …