Arts & Life

Photo Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” is among the nominees for this year’s New York Dance and Performance Awards. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Nominees have been announced for this year’s New York Dance and Performance Awards — affectionately known as the Bessies, the dance world’s …

Photo Michael Landes and Ophelia Lovibond in “Hooten & the Lady.” Credit Joe Alblas/Sky Productions, via CW “Hooten & the Lady” goes for Indiana Jones-like adventure but doesn’t quite succeed. And “30 for 30” examines the combustible chemistry behind “Mike and the Mad Dog.” What’s on TV HOOTEN & THE …

His ascent through the ranks of the classical ballet world, though hardly without obstacles, would be the envy of most in Mr. Underwood’s profession: Early in his teenage training with the ballet teacher Barbara Marks at Suitland High School Center for Visual and Performing Arts in Maryland, he was awarded …

Liberals, on the other hand, regarded Mr. Glazunov as an obscurantist, xenophobe and anti-Semite, in thrall to the darkest forces in Russian history. He preferred to think of himself as a patriot. “The mad insects and dogs of the democratic press say ‘Russia for Russians’ is a fascist slogan,” Mr. …

“Not every oligarch can say that he has developed himself into a genuine pop star,” said Boris Barabanov, a music critic for the Russian newspaper Kommersant. “Emin found his own repertoire that allowed him to get rid of the image of a singing billionaire.” Continue reading the main story But …

Photo Lawyers for James Franco sent a cease-and-desist letter to a New York theater that planned to stage a play called “James Franco and Me.” Credit Nina Westervelt for The New York Times When Kevin Broccoli wrote his two-man play “James Franco and Me,” he had vague hopes that the …

Photo Ophelia Lovibond and Michael Landes, right, in “Hooten & the Lady.” Credit Joe Alblas/Sky Productions, via CW Has there been a worse title for a new television show this year than “Hooten & the Lady”? Is it a “Harry Potter” sequel starring Hedwig the owl’s heroic offspring? Has the …

Photo From left, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Jae Suh Park, Fred Savage and Billy Eichner in “Friends From College.” Credit David Lee/Netflix “Friends From College” is very different from the work you did on “Key & Peele.” How would you describe it? It’s a bunch of …

Photo Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, who hosted the “Mike and the Mad Dog” radio show for 19 years, taking to the airwaves of WFAN in New York in 1989. Credit ESPN Films “Mike and the Mad Dog,” the latest offering in ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, is more of …

Photo A glass window by Frank Lloyd Wright, circa 1904-1905. Credit University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries / Martin House Restoration Corporation; Photograph by Rob Destrubé Hundreds of windows that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the early 1900s for the Martin House Complex in Buffalo, N.Y., have ended up scattered …