Arts & Life

Photo Eartha Kitt, foreground, and James Dean in a Dunham dance class in the early 1950s. Credit Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos The choreographer, dancer and social activist Katherine Dunham made headlines in 1944, when, after reluctantly performing for a racially segregated audience in Louisville, Ky., she declared that if the theater …

Photo Shelley Duvall starred in Robert Altman’s “3 Women.” The movie is showing as part of Film Society of Lincoln Center’s exploration of 1977. Credit 20th Century Fox Summer is a ripe time for great repertory cinema in New York. BAMCinématek has a long, comprehensive retrospective of the director Jonathan …

Photo Members of So Percussion at Lincoln Center, from left: Adam Sliwinski, Josh Quillen, Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times It was an unusual sight at a concert by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. On Wednesday, the front of the stage at David Geffen …

Photo Win Butler and the rest of Arcade Fire rolled out the band’s fifth album, “Everything Now,” with a controversial marketing plan. Credit Fred Tanneau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in …

Mr. Mingus knew him first as Sam Rogers or Steve Rogers, the family surname. Even then, Mr. Mingus said in an interview this week, “He could walk into a room with a typewriter and not leave until he finished a play. No revisions, just typing.” When Ralph Cook, a waiter …

Photo Kelly Lynch in the Audience Network drama “Mr. Mercedes.” Credit Brownie Harris/AT&T Audience Network Stephen King’s 2014 novel “Mr. Mercedes” opens with a psychopath plowing a stolen luxury car into a crowd at a job fair. Later, there’s an attempted bombing at a boy band concert teeming with girls …

Photo Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman.” A study found that when female characters were removed from most movies, the plots didn’t change much. Credit Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment, via Associated Press With “Wonder Woman” and “Girls Trip” riding a wave of critical and commercial success at the …

Leading the pretour was Frances Brook, a redoubtable Englishwoman with an authoritative manner and a flowery hat. Though she has been a guide for 42 years, this was her first Austen tour. From a position at the front of the minibus, she interspersed helpful Jane-related information with tidbits from her …

Since the 1980s, he has juggled his own songwriting with a wildly successful career composing scores and songs for films, including the three “Toy Story” movies. The nephew of three prominent Hollywood composers, Mr. Newman has racked up 20 Academy Award nominations and two wins for his music. Photo Randy …

Photo The Danish String Quartet (from left, Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, Asbjorn Norgaard, Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin and Frederik Oland) will play two works by Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday; see listing below. Credit Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times Our guide to the city’s best classical music and …