The New Uncle Vanya’s Aims Are OffSteve Carell & Co. are individually appealing in Heidi Schreck’s translation, but the show itself never comes to life.
BySara Holdren
theater
Staging SufjanHow playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury turned a classic indie-rock album into a Justin Peck–choreographed dance piece that’s now Broadway bound.
ByJuan A. Ramírez
hollywood
The Man Who Gossiped Too MuchFor years, John Nelson anonymously posted blind items skewering the Hollywood elite on the blog Crazy Days and Nights. Then his identity was revealed.
How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
ByAdam Moss
album review
Our Sweetheart of the RodeoBeyoncé’s Cowboy Carter chronicles an artist with a voice pliable enough (and a following large enough) to crash whatever scene she pleases.
How The Matrix Got MadeWith the 25th anniversary of The Matrix, here’s a timeline of how the franchise and pop-culture phenomenon came to be, and what happened next.
ByKeith Phipps
comedy review
Jerrod Carmichael Makes the Camera His GodIn his HBO series, the comedian needles at whether the spectacle of his own personality and pain eclipses his ability to care about others.
The Playwright on HIV Med StrikeThree months ago, Victor I. Cazares decided to stop taking their pills — until the New York Theatre Workshop calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Lucy Sante: Here She Comes NowThe author of ‘Low Life’ and ‘Kill All Your Darlings’ tried to keep a safe distance from herself — and her own desires. Until, at 66, she broke free.