Arts & Life

Photo Alana Bridgewater, center, and members of the cast of the musical “Spoon River,” a Soulpepper production at the Pershing Square Signature Center that is closing this month. See listing below. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and …

PHISH at Madison Square Garden (July 21-23 and 25-26, 7:30 p.m.; through Aug. 6). New York-area fans of Phish are used to seeing that venerable jam band play multiple shows at Madison Square Garden in late December or early January, as it has for six of the past seven years. …

Comments he made last summer about removing Donald Trump, then a candidate, from the presidency if he won the election were interpreted in some corners as advocating harm. He prefaced the remarks as “a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer,” and denies he meant any form …

“For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination,” Ms. Williams said. “It’s cool to see a woman be like, ‘This is what I want — this is what I don’t want.’ It’s good to see someone making choices for themselves.” Continue reading the main story Over …

Photo All the late-night hosts, including Trevor Noah, took on the news of O.J. Simpson’s victory before a parole board. Credit Comedy Central Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? …

Photo Louis Langrée will lead the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in its first program of the summer on Tuesday and Wednesday; see listing below. Credit Tina Fineberg for The New York Times Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. LES ARTS FLORISSANTS at Alice Tully Hall (July …

Photo Jason Bateman and Laura Linney in “Ozark.” Credit Jackson Davis/Netflix Still longing for the middle-age male angst of “Breaking Bad”? Check out “Ozark,” starring Jason Bateman as an angry money launderer. “Dunkirk,” a BBC docudrama on BritBox, looks back at the World War II escape by British soldiers. And …

Photo The stand-up comedian Joe Pera will try out material for coming TV specials in three shows at Union Hall in Brooklyn next week; see listing below. Credit Lloyd Bishop/NBC Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. MO AMER at Gramercy Theater (July 21, 8 p.m.). Mr. Amer has …

Photo Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in the Oscar-winning “A Place in the Sun,” which will show at the Metrograph on Monday, the first screening in a yearlong partnership between that movie theater and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. See listing below. Credit Paramount Pictures Our guide …

Photo A gelatin silver print from 2000 of Irving Penn’s “Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York, 1949,” included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective “Irving Penn: Centennial.” The exhibition will close on July 30; see listing below. Credit Irving Penn, Condé Nast and Metropolitan Museum of Art Our …