The play casts Mr. Hall and Lindsay Crouse as doctors reflecting on a pharmaceutical trial in which its two research volunteers have fallen in love. The production, which runs through July 8, brought Mr. Hall to the seaside city of Gloucester, Mass., to work with his co-stars and the play’s …

Scott Olson | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO It’s well-known that Facebook paid a hefty sum to buy messaging app WhatsApp. But in the process, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently outbid a rival who had fallen ill, according to a new report in Bloomberg Businessweek. Tencent, the maker of …

Photo Naomie Harris in “Moonlight.” She has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Credit A24 LOS ANGELES — As it races to leave behind its days as an exclusive club primarily for white men, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the …

Photo Karen Pittman in “Pipeline,” written by Dominique Morisseau. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Dominique Morisseau has one of the most penetrating voices to emerge from the last decade of American theater, combining poetic vernacular with a probing social conscience that brings to mind Arthur Miller and August Wilson. …

Photo The drummer Art Blakey, above, will get a tribute from Tony Allen. Credit G. Paul Burnett/Associated Press The fluid, multidirectional heft of Tony Allen’s drumming helped define the sound and gravitas of Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band, which pioneered the Afrobeat style in the 1960s and ’70s. Mr. Allen …

ouis Ascui | Fairfax Media | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square Mizuho Securities analyst Thomas McCrohan called Square “the Telsa of payments,” encouraging investors to buy shares of the payment processing company. Drawing a comparison to the young and innovative automaker, the analyst said Square is approaching payment …

Through the characters he has played in nearly 50 years’ worth of Monty Python television shows and films — devious shopkeepers; an aspiring lumberjack; an adventurous knight who just wants a bit of peril — Mr. Palin, 74, has cultivated a reputation for being a sympathetic, likable guy. “Remember Me” …

Despite a relatively robust economy and a markedly low level of unemployment, inflation remains muted both in the United States and around the world. Why? While granting that demographic shifts are part of the equation, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, Rick Rieder, argues that technological innovation tamps …

Photo One of the Kurt Cobain paintings that will be displayed in Seattle; it was used for the cover of “Incesticide,” Nirvana’s 1992 collection of B-sides. LOS ANGELES — The visual arts division of United Talent Agency opened a project space in Los Angeles last year, prompting questions about whether …

Getty Images President Donald Trump, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos attend a meeting of the American Technology Council in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. “Very few taxpayers report it, even when systems are in place to make …