Arts & Life

Photo Jennifer Jones and David Farrar in “The Wild Heart.” Credit The Archers and London Films Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s British melodrama “Gone to Earth” — at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, June 21, as part of “Modern Matinees: Becoming Jennifer Jones” — has a reputation often …

And we might not know a thing about them if it weren’t for the little-known artistic experience of Louis Pasteur, says Dr. Gal. Continue reading the main story Hands and cue balls Pasteur was born in 1822 to a French family of modest means. His dad was a soldier in …

They were selected far from the site of the Cosby trial, the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., because of concerns about the effect of pretrial publicity. Pennsylvania judicial officials refused to detail the terms of their sequestration — whether, for example, they can have a laptop computer with them. …

But she said she had an awakening on election night tied to misogyny in her past. And she is undertaking a strenuous effort to prove she isn’t the same frothy Katy Perry as before, making over her look, her music and her vocabulary. For 96 hours, timed to the album’s …

Photo Trevor Noah doesn’t know whether he can rule anything out when it comes to President Trump’s decision-making. 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? What else …

Photo Aisholpan in “The Eagle Huntress.” Credit Sony Pictures Classics A Mongolian teenager tries to break barriers in her nomadic tribe in Otto Bell’s soaring documentary, “The Eagle Huntress.” And Season 1 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” reaches a dark conclusion. What’s on TV THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (2016) 9 p.m. on …

Photo From left, Michael Countryman, Lisa Emery, Corey Hawkins, John Benjamin Hickey and Allison Janney in “Six Degrees of Separation,” which will close on June 18. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The revival of “Six Degrees of Separation” on Broadway, which won neither of the Tony Awards it was …

Photo A scene from “Streepshow!,” with many incarnations of Meryl Streep, at the Connelly Theater. Credit Skye Morse-Hodgson If your knowledge of Meryl Streep’s screen work is superficial, “Streepshow!” could drive you mad with frustration. But then Jay Stull’s new play may have that effect even if you know your …

The author’s mother, Lillian, was a different story. She got sober when Alexie was 7 but stayed mean. Alexie describes her as “dead-salmon cold” and “army-ant intense.” She was, in his telling, a pathological liar. Lillian’s death in 2015 seems to have been a primary catalyst for this garrulous and …

Photo Debargo Sanyal, left, as a cat, and Curran Connor as a dog in Leah Nanako Winkler’s “Linus and Murray,” at Ensemble Studio Theater. Credit Gerry Goodstein Two sisters bake a tuna casserole to honor a friend in Series B of the latest Ensemble Studio Theater one-act play marathons, now …