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Mr. Fowler started doing standup at 17 and moved to New York from Hyattsville, Md., about nine years ago. The Comedy Cellar was one of the first clubs to give him a regular slot. Photo The scene near the Grand Street subway station. Credit Andrew White for The New York …

Our critics and reporters offer a glimpse of what’s moved and delighted them on YouTube. Read the rest of our classical music coverage here. AT 2 HOURS 8 MINUTES 44 SECONDS #MeToo Mélisande There have been many dreamlike stagings of Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande,” but few as nightmarish as Barrie …

Photo Valérie Dashwood in “State of Siege” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Credit Ed Lefkowicz The disease of extremism rampages through Albert Camus’s “State of Siege,” a deservedly minor 1948 play revived by the director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota of Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and presented by the Next …

The filmmakers assembled the rest of the cast, including Jonathan Hyde, who played dual roles as young Alan’s aloof father and a hunter who terrorizes the players. JONATHAN HYDE It was a strange shoot. We were in Vancouver through the winter. It’s a wet, cold city. For five months, that …

Nice try. We’re just in hoary old Hollywood, where showing a problem tends to be confused with addressing it. All we know about the family across the way — they’re the Mayerses — is that they’re new homeowners and that they’re black. And boy, are they restrained. When racists scream …

“SMILF” revives the tradition of unruly antiheroines that was Showtime’s signature brand under the channel’s former president of entertainment, Robert Greenblatt. Series like “Weeds,” “Nurse Jackie,” “United States of Tara” and “The Big C” — all created by female showrunners — flaunted characters who kicked against the constraints of conventional …

He fought with distinction and held almost every major office in Britain. He commanded a country in the midst of world war and is credited with inventing the social safety net. He has been called an imperialist and a warmonger. A drunk and a racist. He won the Nobel Prize …

The current leg of his world tour for the album, his third LP, wraps up with four nights at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., starting Tuesday, Nov. 7. The tour will come to a handful of American cities in December, but this stop in the Los Angeles area is most …

When Thomson first proposed an opera about 19th-century America to Stein, his longtime collaborator, she immersed herself in the era’s literature and political speeches, and remarked in a letter that “if it comes off it will be a most erudite opera.” Still, she hoped to write a work that “would …

Jordan Klepper on Political Correctness Video by Comedy Central On “The Opposition,” Jordan Klepper pulled out a gaslight as he tried to justify some of the Trump administration’s public statements. Later, he discussed Mr. Trump’s recent suggestion that “we’re so politically correct that we’re afraid to do anything.” “He’s right. …