Arts & Life

Photo From left, Conleth Hill, Peter Dinklage, Nathalie Emmanuel, Emilia Clarke, Liam Cunningham and Kit Harington in “Game of Thrones.” Credit Macall B. Polay/HBO Emilia Clarke scraps a failing plan to conquer her enemies in “Game of Thrones.” And Ian Ziering and Tara Reid’s fight against sharks gets personal. What’s …

Photo Tony Hale and Heather Burns in “Brave New Jersey,” a comedy about a small town in crisis mode in 1938. Credit Gravitas Ventures Fake news travels fast, even in the fictitious New Jersey town of Lullaby in the 1930s. That rural town was light-years away from the Manhattan home …

Photo Pascal Cervo in a scene from “4 Days in France,” the director Jérôme Reybaud’s feature debut. Credit Cinema Guild There’s a peculiarly spellbinding quality to “4 Days in France” that is partly attributable to its premise. This feature debut of the writer and director Jérôme Reybaud opens with a …

Slide Show Slide Show|25 Photos Shopping for a Cause Shopping for a Cause CreditDolly Faibyshev for The New York Times The Watermill Center hosted its summer benefit and auction on July 29 in Water Mill, N.Y. The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance held its annual shopping charity known as Super …

Photo Danny Burstein, in red, plays Bottom in Lear deBessonet’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. …

Photo Bryan Fogel in “Icarus.” Credit Netflix In “Icarus,” Bryan Fogel sets out to test doping in cycling and ends up embroiled in an international scandal. And the movie “Rachel Getting Married,” Jonathan Demme’s loving tale of family dysfunction, comes to Hulu. What’s Streaming ICARUS on Netflix. After learning that …

Photo The International Contemporary Ensemble. Credit Armen Elliot The Mostly Mozart Festival is presenting “Schubertiade Remix,” a radical re-creation of the legendary musical soirees in Vienna featuring Schubert and his fellow artists, often hosted by prosperous admirers of the struggling composer. (Monday, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m., free, David Rubenstein Atrium, …

Photo The Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia LaFourcade is coming to Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Credit Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times America’s music has always benefited from a permeable Southern border, and free concerts in the coming week celebrate interchanges and connections across the Americas. A concert at Lincoln Center Out …

Photo Japanese actors from the 19th-century, done in woodblock by Utagawa Kunisada. Credit Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)/William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, lovers of Japanese woodblock art: Let’s get ready to rumble! In this corner, the prince of portraits, the …

Photo The founders of the Corkscrew Theater Festival: Thomas Kapusta, left, artistic director, and Alexander Donnelly, producer. Credit Jason Moody Photography With the New York International Fringe Festival, normally the biggest fish in the pond, on hiatus for 2017, a number of opportunists have leapt forward with new summertime options …