Arts & Life

From its inception, the Cornelia Street Café has claimed a liberated identity, equally linked to the worlds of folk music, literature, Off Off Broadway and jazz. The club opened on the Fourth of July weekend in 1977, in what had been a broken-down storefront. Three artists — an Italian-Canadian visual …

It takes a while to realize that Mary is not who she seems to be, or rather is far more complicated than she first appears. “You’ve got me,” she tells Hannah, comforting her after they hear the news about their mother. “You’ve got Mary.” But it would be a mistake …

Photo A scene from “To the End of the Land,” which is part of the Lincoln Center Festival this month and is backed by the Israeli government. Credit Gerard Allon More than 60 artists, including a Pulitzer Prize winner and other prominent writers, actors, directors and playwrights, have signed an …

Photo Laurie Metcalf in Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2.” She won a Tony Award for her performance in the play, which she will leave on July 23. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Laurie Metcalf, who won a Tony Award for her lead role in Lucas Hnath’s play …

Photo Myriam Mézières and Jean-Luc Bideau in Alain Tanner’s “Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.” Credit Citel Films With the opening of several new repertory screens in New York City comes a welcome bonus: retrospectives of foreign filmmakers whose work animated the city’s film culture decades ago. …

Photo The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will perform at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Credit Zach Hilty/BFA The vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, working with the innovative opera director Christopher Alden, comes to National Sawdust in Brooklyn with a staged version of a Handel rarity: the 1708 …

[ ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Back. Here’s Where We Left Off. ] Season 7 will be largely about bringing together primary characters that either have been long separated, or who have never actually met. At the top of the heap sits Cersei, who over six seasons lost her father and …

Mr. Charmatz said the idea for “10000 Gestures” came to him while watching one of his own pieces, “Levée des Conflits Extended,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2013. “The idea of “Levée” was that it was based on limited gestures, so you were constantly circling …

Photo Damson Idris in the FX series “Snowfall.” Credit Michael Yarish/FX “Snowfall,” the latest entry into the golden-age TV genre of drug dramas, has its premiere on FX. And “The Boss Baby,” in which Alec Baldwin lends his gravelly voice to an animated infant character, is streaming on iTunes. What’s …

Photo Marcella Lewis, left, and Catherine Ellis Kirk of Abraham.In.Motion. in “Dearest Home,” at the Kitchen. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times A man approaches, almost near enough to touch. He’s wearing next to nothing, and you can tell he’s upset by the stricken look on his face and the …