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Audra McDonald Triumphs in “Gypsy” on Broadway
In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to café-society entertainment, simply by acting refined. She made arch...
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which she appeared to promote Tesla’s new A.I....
How Judith Jamison Shaped Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002.New York dance in December is all about “The Nutcracker,” the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the joy they...
The Best Theatre of 2024
In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit...
“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
Not long into “The Brutalist,” the director Brady Corbet plunges us into darkness—a darkness that, although neither formless nor void, marks the film as a creation story. Deep in...
“A Complete Unknown” Shears Off Vital Details in the Life of a Colossal, Complicated Artist
One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on December 25th, simplifies Bob Dylan’s early professional life and...
The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances
For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,”...
The Afterimage of Arlene Croce
Arlene Croce, who wrote the Dancing column in The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on December 16th, at the age of ninety. She was a towering figure,...
Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.2024 in ReviewNew Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and...
The “Nickel Boys” Director RaMell Ross on Making the Most Haunting Scene
RaMell Ross walks us through a pivotal scene in his début fiction feature, “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead. Ross has spent years honing his...
