Party of Five
The Last Dinner Party, a new rock band out of London, is shaking up the city’s music and style scenes
A Whole New Ball Game
How a father and son created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing
Carving Beauty
A retrospective at the Huntington Art Museum celebrates the artist Sargent Claude Johnson, a key figure of the Black Renaissance
Stones on the Beach
Eighteen years ago in Rio, the Rolling Stones played to the largest audience ever assembled for a rock concert. Their creative director recalls the madness
Stanislavsky’s Method
Performed in Paris and set in America, Tony Award winner Richard Nelson’s new play reimagines a day on tour with Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Russian theater troupe
Eternally Revolutionary
A new exhibition honors the late Italian photographer and activist Tina Modotti, who crossed paths with everyone from Pablo Neruda to Frida Kahlo
To Catch a Mona Lisa Thief
How Picasso got framed for stealing Leonardo’s masterpiece
Rachel Kaly
The New York– and Los Angeles–based stand-up comedian turns her mental illnesses into jokes
Anatomy of a Hypochondriac
Red Bull Theater revives the dying Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid
Hot Coals
The German-British artist Frank Auerbach’s charcoal portraits go on show in London
The Princess and the Pie Shop
Sutton Foster bounces from the Encores! Once upon a Mattress straight to Broadway’s hit revival of Sweeney Todd
The Cuteness Curse
There’s a thin line between cuddly and creepy, according to a new exhibition at Somerset House in London
Dominique Morisseau
The Tony-nominated playwright on how her father, a Haitian revolutionary, inspired her familial drama Sunset Baby
Another Universe
A new production of Nelken stays true to the late choreographer Pina Bausch’s innovative work of dance theater
Vivaldi In His Element
Il Giustino lands at Stockholm’s Drottningholm Court Theater
Back from the Dead
The celebrated Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte surfaces in Athens, then in New York
California Cool
A retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum honors the legacy of the midcentury architect Albert Frey
A Less Perfect Union
Flashbacks to the Buckley–Vidal smackdowns that changed our media landscape forever
The Iannucci Treatment
Boris Johnson and his successors, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are skewered on the London stage in a caustic new play by Veep and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci
Shock and Awe
The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective
Keeping Up with the Hösses
Based on a Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest is told from the perspective of an Auschwitz commandant and his family
Phone Rage
In a new column, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is infuriated, incensed, and enraged by the world around him—particularly his new phone service
The Great (Culture) War
In 2023, while some cities celebrated femininity with Taylor Swift and Barbie, others pivoted toward angry country music. Do universal pop-culture trends even exist anymore?
Postcard New England
The early days of skiing in the United States were wild and woolly, with rope tows, aristocratic instructors, and five-to-a-room boarding houses