Arts & Life

Photo Juan Gabriel Pareja, left, and Andrew Lincoln in “The Walking Dead.” Credit Gene Page/AMC Season 8, Episode 3: ‘Monsters’ A show as determinedly dismal as “The Walking Dead” can’t allow for outright comic relief, but the series has recently found a more broadly leavening influence in Ezekiel, who begins …

There are more than 130 Michelangelo drawings in the exhibition opening next week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer.” They are here on loan from dozens of institutions around the world, and span the artist’s long creative life. But one of the works is a …

Photo A campy new villian like Hela, played by Cate Blanchett, helped “Thor: Ragnarok” beat superhero sequelitis. Credit Marvel Studios, via Associated Press LOS ANGELES — After a four-month absence from theaters, Walt Disney Studios returned over the weekend, releasing “Thor: Ragnarok” to blockbuster results and teaching rival studios a …

Not that people with autism have been utterly absent from the stage. But too often they have been, like the young horse-mutilator in “Equus,” freaks and villains. More recently, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” featured a hero on the spectrum — a role now being played, …

When asked by Mr. Fierstein and the play’s director, Moisés Kaufman, to consider the role, Mr. Urie felt the same way. “I never thought of myself as Arnold,’’ he said. “I thought they were insane.” It was not that Mr. Urie, 37, hasn’t played larger-than-life roles over the course of …

Photo Credit Patricia Wall/The New York Times For anyone who lived through the 1980s, the television series “Miami Vice” is the pastel-shaded, music-driven, drug-saturated image of the city forever seared into memory. At the center of this action in real life was the Mutiny at Sailboat Bay, a hotel and …

James does not have a cochlear implant; he uses hearing aids. Like Rachel, he reads lips. Communicating on the phone with a deaf person is often not ideal, so we used video chat or email to correspond and give creative notes. I went to London to work with James and …

Mr. Baldwin explained he had to make certain that Mr. Moffat wasn’t wearing a wire. “I would never do that with you,” Mr. Moffat said. Mr. Baldwin answered, “That’s what she said. Like, a whole bunch of she’s have said that. Speaking of which, what an idiot that Harvey Weinstein …

Photo William H. Macy in “Shameless.” Credit Paul Sarkis/Showtime “Shameless” returns with more drugs and poverty. Jenny Slate has a guest spot on “Bob’s Burgers.” What’s On TV SHAMELESS 8 p.m. on Showtime. The Gallagher clan has endured deaths, mental illnesses, prison stints, addictions and so much more over seven …

Agang Yargyi, a Tibetan filmmaker who traveled from the western province of Sichuan to attend, expressed admiration for Mr. Feng’s choice of a historical subject, calling it “very daring.” Mr. Agang, 27, has made three short films, including one, “Dream,” that played in film festivals in Finland and Washington. He …