Arts & Life

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 …

Slide Show Slide Show|26 Photos 2017 Tony Awards Red Carpet 2017 Tony Awards Red Carpet CreditEvan Agostini/Invision, via Evan Agostini/Invision/Ap Broadway’s brightest stars, some dressed by Anna Wintour, will gather at Radio City Music Hall tonight to celebrate the year’s most triumphant productions. The evening will include performances from “Dear …

Photo Andrew Garland and Kirsten Chambers in “Angels in America.” Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times “More life” is the aspiration of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” the blessing its characters fervently hope to gain. But while Mr. Kushner’s play, sprawling over two parts and seven hours, wants more, …

Ms. Gund, together with the Ford Foundation, which will administer the fund, has asked other collectors to do the same, in the hopes of raising an additional $100 million over the next five years. Continue reading the main story The effort is noteworthy, not only for the amount of money …

• The outlines of Mr. Cosby’s defense has been to say that he gave her only Benadryl and that the sexual encounter was consensual and part of a romantic relationship. He has said he will not testify, but his spokesman said Friday that may change. Photo Bill Cosby arrives for …

Photo Glenne Headly in 1997. Credit via Photofest Glenne Headly, whose acting career took shape at the renowned Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago and found its biggest audience in Hollywood with films like “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Dick Tracy,” died on Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 62. The …

Photo Annabelle Wallis and Tom Cruise in “The Mummy.” Credit Chiabella James/Universal Pictures Blame the inexperienced director, Alex Kurtzman, for delivering a mess of a movie. Scratch that: Fault Universal for settling on a script that emphasized action over characters and campy fun. Actually, perhaps a baggage-ladden Tom Cruise was …

Photo A rendering of the copy of the Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo that will be at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The egg-shaped structure will be part of the museum’s exhibition, “A Universal History of Infamy,” opening Aug. 20. Credit Museum Associates/LACMA If all goes as planned …

Photo Adolphe Binder, whose first season programming for Tanztheater Wuppertal will include a revival of Pina Bausch’s rarely seen “Seven Deadly Sins.” Credit Caroline Seidel/European Pressphoto Agency Two new, full-length pieces by Dimitris Papaioannou and Alan Lucien Oyen, as well as a revival of Pina Bausch’s rarely seen “Seven Deadly …

Photo Tatiana Maslany in “Orphan Black.” Credit Ken Woroner/BBC America Tatiana Maslany and her clone sisterhood fight one last battle in the final season of “Orphan Black.” And Ben Affleck plays a mathematics savant with a wicked skill set in “The Accountant.” What’s on TV ORPHAN BLACK 10 p.m. on …