Assignment: Sinatra
Part III
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
Cast to the Rescue
Salzburg’s latest crack at The Marriage of Figaro
Back to Basics
Sixty years on, Lincoln Chase and Shirley Ellis’s hit song “The Nitty Gritty” remains a lesson in style
Assignment: Sinatra
Part II
While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”
Grace Potter
Starting next week, the singer-songwriter will perform ballads from her latest album, Mother Road, written on her Route 66 road trip, around the U.S.
Assignment: Sinatra
A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever
The Barbie Girl Variations
A Spanish cellist in Sweden who moonlights on piano gives Aqua’s golden oldie a half dozen makeovers
Always Beckoning
Beck, laughing wild amid severest woe, is on tour through September 10, with upcoming stops in Texas, Chicago, Toronto, and cities along the East Coast
Au Revoir, les Femmes
A new documentary tells the little-known story of a group of 230 non-Jewish women of the French Resistance who were sent to Auschwitz
Picture’s Up
The 76th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which opens next week, will screen a selection of vintage movies and innovative international films
Little Mermaid in La La Land
From Amsterdam, a fey yet bleak revival of Dvořák’s Rusalka
Swimming with Sharks
A tragicomedy about the making of Jaws, starring Robert Shaw’s son Ian, premieres on Broadway
In Their Heads
Set in an asylum, choreographer Matthew Bourne’s twist on Romeo and Juliet surprises audiences at Sadler’s Wells
Changing His Tune
For decades, Jeff Goldblum has been a beloved actor and a sex symbol. Now, at age 70, he’s also becoming a jazz pianist
Magical Thinking
A retrospective of Remedios Varo’s mystical paintings puts the spotlight on the long-overlooked Surrealist
Stealing God’s Stuff
He is best remembered as the author of the children’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. But is E. B. White also the forgotten prophet of our nuclear doom?
Dutchman in Dry Dock
Asmik Grigorian redeems Bayreuth’s non-seaworthy Der Fliegende Holländer
Best in Grow
In England, the village show presents a ripe opportunity to show off
Go East, Young Man
The native New Yorker Jamie Bogyo is finding his theatrical niche in London’s classy West End
Trinity Rodman
At just 21, the record-breaking soccer star, who happens to be Dennis Rodman’s daughter, is taking the field in the FIFA Women’s World Cup
Horse Sense
Little-known photos by Julian Lloyd hearken back to the Swinging 60s and the electric meeting point of British society, rock ’n’ roll, and, of course, horses