Arts & Life

Photo Alan Gilbert, center, playing violin on Thursday night, joined by Johnny Gandelsman and Cristina Pato. Credit Ian Douglas for The New York Times Alan Gilbert is stepping down, at 50, as music director of the New York Philharmonic, leaving an elder statesman’s post without actually being an elder statesman. …

Slide Show Cynthia Nixon, Ben Platt and Kevin Spacey at Tonys After-Parties CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times At the after-party at the Plaza hotel on Sunday night, following the three-hour-plus running time of the Tony Awards, made longer by Bette Midler’s hilarious and defiant acceptance speech and the …

Photo Halsey’s second album, “hopefuless fountain kingdom,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Credit Charles Sykes/Invision, via Associated Press Two years ago, Halsey was an unknown pop singer who, with help from some online tastemakers, had a minor hit with “New Americana,” a sharp-tongued portrait of disaffected millennials …

Photo Samantha Geimer, in court on Friday. Credit Pool photo by Paul Buck The woman at the center of the 40-year-old sexual abuse case against Roman Polanski asked a Los Angeles County judge on Friday to end the legal proceedings in the case. “I would implore you to do this …

Below are edited excerpts from our conversation. What can opera do that spoken plays can’t? When you’re a writer, it’s what Shaw says: All writing aspires to the quality of music. No matter how great the writing is in a play, it’s always going through the prison house of language; …

Best Shout-Out to the Playwright Who Got You a Tony Photo Cynthia Nixon won best featured actress in a play for her performance in “The Little Foxes.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Accepting her award for “The Little Foxes,” Cynthia Nixon struck one of the night’s more political notes …

Even a cursory reading of the play, the kind that many American teenagers give it in high school, is enough to show that it does not advocate assassination. Shakespeare portrays the killing of Caesar by seven of his fellow senators as an unmitigated disaster for Rome, no matter how patriotic …

Photo Elizabeth Marvel as Antony, left, Tina Benko as Calpurnia and Gregg Henry as Caesar in a preview of “Julius Caesar” at Delacorte Theater in Central Park last month. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times New York’s Public Theater lost financial support from two high-profile corporate donors, Delta Air Lines …

Slide Show 2017 Tony Awards Red Carpet CreditDimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Three years into the Great Fashion Experiment that is Anna Wintour’s takeover of the Tony Awards red carpet, I think it’s fair to say that while things are looking, literally, better — there is less kooky costume, and more simple …

The game, as Mr. Rogers and his crew play it now, is simple: The boys roll the dice, and he, serving in the role of Dungeon Master, does the same. The young men’s fate depends on how high they roll, compared with Mr. Rogers, who invents a plot twist on …