Arts & Life

Photo The playwright Mike Bartlett, whose “Albion” will be part of the Almeida Theater’s 2017-18 season. Credit Tom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — A new play by Mike Bartlett, the author of “King Charles III,” and a stage adaptation of “The Twilight Zone,” the 1960s television series, …

Photo Duane Jones in “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), a black-and-white zombie shocker that was a horror movie game-changer and was part of the inspiration for Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” Credit Continental Distributing Inc., via Photofest George A. Romero, the maverick film director who died Sunday, brought zombies into …

Photo Rami Malek, who is set to play Freddie Mercury in a coming Queen biopic, in 2016. Credit Philip Montgomery for The New York Times The long-gestating, controversy-laden biopic about the rock band Queen is finally moving forward — or so says the band. A post on the band’s official …

Photo From left, Nick Helm, Samuel Anderson and Jonny Sweet in “Loaded,” on AMC. Credit Hal Shinnie/Ch4, via AMC Don’t think of “Loaded,” a funny series that starts Monday night on AMC, as “Silicon Valley” with British accents, though the pocket description might suggest that. Four British guys with a …

So the news is not great. Yet I find myself optimistic, unable to shake the sense that something is changing — that in a year that began with women’s marches erupting around the globe, female theater makers are less willing to tolerate the stubborn status quo. Continue reading the main …

Photo Trying to find herself: Lucie Pohl in “Hi, Hitler,” at the Cherry Lane Theater. Credit Champion Hamilton Lucie Pohl proves to be a delightful raconteur in “Hi, Hitler,” her one-woman show at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her story, though, ultimately is less engaging than she is, growing more amorphous …

In what way is the book you wrote different from the book you set out to write? It’s quite different. I thought I would write only about the research on the nature of curiosity. What are the mechanisms in the brain? What psychological states does it represent? But as I …

Childbirth issues provide an unexpected link to a second, less satisfying London theater opening this week. That would be the Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Queen Anne,” which premiered in Stratford-upon-Avon (the RSC’s home base) late in 2015 and reopened — partly recast — on Monday at the Theater Royal …

All but one of the nine members of the Syrian cast and crew, a lighting designer who lives as a refugee in Germany, received visas, defying the fears of Lincoln Center officials who had worried that the play would be a casualty of the Trump administration’s order to temporarily ban …

Photo Samuel Anderson, left, and Jim Howick in “Loaded.” Credit Kevin Baker/Ch4, via AMC A cadre of British tech whizzes grapple with their newfound wealth and their mouthy American boss in “Loaded.” And Rachel goes home with the four remaining suitors on “The Bachelorette.” What’s on TV LOADED 10 p.m. …