Arts & Life

Photo Members of Doug Varone’s company, Doug Varone and Dancers, at BAM Harvey Theater this spring. Mr. Varone is the latest choreographer chosen for the program Taylor Company Commissions. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Doug Varone, the longtime choreographer and artistic director of the troupe Doug Varone …

Photo Julie Victor in the French musical comedy “Footnotes.” Credit Monument Releasing A Marxist musical comedy might not be your first choice of weekend entertainment, but be assured that “Footnotes” won’t batter your brain with heavyweight labor theory. Rather, this feather-light French confection, written and directed by Paul Calori and …

If Alec Baldwin has any chance of pulling off a serious movie role while he’s so identified with his exquisite “Saturday Night Live” shenanigans, he’ll need a far more sophisticated script than the one he was handed in “Blind.” The film, directed by Michael Mailer, wanted to be a steamy …

LYONS Yeah, poor movie category. But we used to say the same thing about limited series, and now that’s one of the most interesting, robust categories! So who knows. To every Emmy category, there is a season. Also “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” made it in this year. Can we …

Don Winslow Age 63 Occupation A novelist whose books include “The Cartel” and most recently “The Force” Location San Diego County His Favorite Room The office in his house on a 30-acre ranch, which Mr. Winslow and his wife bought years ago, when he worked as a private investigator. His …

Photo Mura Masa, 21, is releasing his official major-label debut album. Credit Nolan Feldpausch There’s a world of plink and ping in the songs of Mura Masa, the producer whose major-label debut album, “Mura Masa,” arrives this week; he already has a catalog dating back to “Soundtrack to a Death,” …

What’s changed is how many people are watching. “DAMN.,” Mr. Lamar’s fourth studio album, which was released in April, is his first record rooted in the tensions associated with success. He leaned heavily on it at this concert, returning again and again to the album’s most potent mantra: “Ain’t nobody …

Trump Wants You to Know: He’s Not Watching TV President Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning to assure his supporters that he was not spending too much time watching TV — something that made Stephen Colbert a little uneasy. The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many …

I know all this because my father, Todd Cohen, is the Rising Storm’s bassist. When I was a child, he often spent Saturday afternoons playing along to Beatles or Rolling Stones records on his old upright bass. I knew he had been in a band, but the idea was more …

The race to the nominations has been fiercely competitive. To secure Emmy votes, networks and studios went on a lavish spending spree in recent months to market their shows at a moment when there are more TV shows than ever. Many Hollywood executives said that award jockeying for the Emmys, …