Lucy Nicholson | Reuters The Ground-based Midcourse Defense element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system launches during a flight test from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., May 30, 2017. The former director of a U.S. intelligence program that helped Ronald Reagan improve America’s missile defenses has lashed out …

Photo Yang Mi in “Reset,” a tense sci-fi thriller directed by Chang. Credit Well Go USA Rule No. 1 for overstressed mothers engaged in top-secret research that might make them the target of an enemy: Don’t let the babysitter leave your child alone. That is the first mistake Xia Tian …

Getty Images The New York Mets celebrate after defeating the Chicago Cubs in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field on October 21, 2015, in Chicago. Every July 1, Bobby Bonilla has a reason to party, even if his former team doesn’t. That’s because the New …

But inevitably “Midsummer,” being Shakespearean, is political too: squabbles among the fairy royalty — Oberon (Richard Poe) and Titania (Phylicia Rashad) — are what turn the world of the play upside-down in the first place. Still, I trust that the regal Ms. Rashad will not appear in Melania Trump garb, …

Photo Re-enactors portraying members of the First Rhode Island Regiment, a unit that accepted black soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Credit J.M. Wasko Our guide to cultural events in New York City for families with children and teenagers. COMMUNITY DAY OPEN STUDIO at the Noguchi Museum (July 2, 11 a.m. …

Photo From left, George H.W. Bush, President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the documentary “The Reagan Show.” Credit Gravitas Ventures and CNN Films For anyone (like this critic) who came of age in the 1980s, “The Reagan Show” will be like a quick trip through a time warp. It …

“It wasn’t the most exciting material, but they had a sale, there was strong interest and it was profitable,” he added. “Christie’s didn’t compete for the money that was out there.” Photo A triptych of 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat canvases, 8 feet high and combining areas of overpaint with the artist’s …

“We spent all our time trying to figure out the wording,” said one of the jurors, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy. “It all came down to the wording.” Continue reading the main story Much is unclear about what happened in the jury …

“Originally I was thinking about the material, how to make something that does not bend seem as flexible as paper,” Ms. Saban, 36, said in her lilting Argentine accent. “But looking back I see a connection to earthquakes — the way they cause city streets to buckle or a floor …

Photo Aaron Loux, left, and Sam Black in Mark Morris’s “Numerator” at Tanglewood. Credit Christopher Duggan/Mark Morris Dance Group LENOX, Mass. — Though born almost 40 years apart, the composer Lou Harrison and the choreographer Mark Morris, both from the West Coast, became one of the great artistic partnerships. Harrison, …