Photo Kevin Spacey doing a Bill Clinton impression at the Tony Awards. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Maybe it’s time for another hostless Tony Awards. Sunday night’s broadcast of Broadway’s annual celebration of itself had trouble figuring out what to do with Kevin Spacey, the evening’s host, making use …

Photo Carrie Preston, left, and Niecy Nash in the first episode of “Claws.” Credit Wilson Webb/TNT Perhaps you’ve been waiting for a mash-up of “Steel Magnolias” and “Breaking Bad.” TNT apparently thinks so, because it’s giving you one: “Claws,” a nail salon thriller that begins its 10-episode first season on …

Photo Stephen Colbert, left, and Kevin Spacey at the Tony Awards. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times In a tap-dancing, costume-changing opening, Kevin Spacey began the Tony Awards with parodies of several nominated musicals, with surprise appearances from Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal. In a medley with modified …

Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Residential and commercial buildings stand in Chengdu, China, on Monday on April 10, 2017. Other cities that qualified were Wuhan, Chongqing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Xi’an, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Dalian and Ningbo. Two cities — Dongguan and Zhengzhou — made it to the list for …

Photo Cynthia Nixon was awarded a Tony for her performance in “The Little Foxes.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Here are edited excerpts from some of the acceptance speeches at the Tony Awards on Sunday night. Winners paid tribute to parents, friends and educators. A couple made political points. …

Chris Kleponis | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump return to the White House in Washington, DC, after a trip to New Jersey, June 11, 2017. President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, and youngest son, Barron, have moved into the …

Photo Edith Shiffert in 2005 in Kyoto, Japan. Her poetry was influenced by her many years living there. Credit Micah Gampel Edith Shiffert, an American poet whose work was profoundly influenced by the half-century she spent in Japan, died on March 1 in Kyoto, where she had long made her …

Kevork Djansezian | Getty Images Katsuhiro Harada (R), and Michael Murray introduce ‘Tekken7’ video game during Microsoft Corp. Xbox at the Galen Center on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California “We expect (Xbox One X) to underwhelm at retail, as has PS4 Pro, which costs $399,” said Michael Pachter …

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? How difficult it was for me to write about myself in the moment, explaining to readers how I felt about certain situations, the fear, the threat, the moment where you get back to your hotel room or home and you’re …

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO, speaks during Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. After a drop in big technology stocks Friday caused the Nasdaq composite to post its worst week of the year, the shares were likely to come …