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In this drama directed by and starring Thomas Salvador, an urbanite plunges into treacherous conditions.

A selection from Hyperion’s now-streaming catalog, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky and Yunchan Lim’s Liszt are among the highlights.

Day 1 brought challenges but not “Challengers,” the film that had been scheduled to open this usually starry event until it was delayed by the strikes.

Listener and viewer questions on some recent releases, also including Renee Rapp, Earl Sweatshirt and Zach Bryan.

The indie rocker found herself writing about what she had long suppressed on “Rabbit Rabbit,” due Friday.

The director Emma Seligman narrates a sequence from her film featuring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.

The director Emma Seligman narrates a sequence from “Bottoms,” featuring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.

This month’s picks include a look back at a presidential primary, a remembrance of the victims of a hate crime and an intriguing visit to a Northwest Atlantic island.

With David Geffen Hall open, Lincoln Center’s leader is working to diversify programming, staff and audiences and engage the city. But some worry about what’s being lost.

Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office dropped its investigation, citing a lack of evidence for allegations that Mr. Lindemann had drugged young women in order to have sex with them.

A conversation about how the concert relates to Beyoncé’s stadium show, the role of dance in Swift’s spectacular and more.

Hear songs from Beyoncé, Alvvays, Mdou Moctar and more.

A writer struggled with being present. This Brazilian drum helped her pay attention.

New films from David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay and Michael Mann will make up for the absence of stars kept away by the Hollywood strikes.

On Fire Island in New York, ardent fans described their affection for the Broadway star while waiting to see her perform at a Cherry Grove nightclub.

He was one of the original children profiled in “Seven Up!,” a 1964 British documentary, and reappeared in subsequent installments for more than a half-century.

The song by Oliver Anthony Music played a role at the Republican primary debate, though the musician clarified he doesn’t identify with “people on conservative news.”

“Getting In,” a new book from David Kennerley, collects the edgy advertisements for parties at clubs like the Palladium and records a culture forged from defiance.

Four picks across television, film and podcast that will take American viewers and listeners to places with vastly different systems and understandings of justice.

A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests.

The conductor led the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in their first performance together since he ran afoul of the Venezuelan government in 2017.

The members of the Strokes tribute band Juicebox, like the crowds they draw, are predominantly Latino.

As a founder of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, he was at the center, if not in the forefront, of the Haight-Ashbury acid-rock explosion.

A cinema chain in Britain is welcoming dogs to select screenings. They don’t need their own tickets, and they don’t need to turn off their cellphones.

The Jewish ceremony can be the setting for a sharp look at growing up. But it has too often been used for glosses that ignore the rite’s deeper meaning.

The famed Amateur Night at the Apollo enters its 89th year, and audiences are as outspoken as ever.

This month’s picks include a Mexican resort thriller, a British time-travel caper and a coming-of-age drama from Costa Rica.

As war in Ukraine continues, so does the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, with a version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony tailored to the moment.

Best known internationally for her breakout performance in the 1959 film “Black Orpheus,” she challenged racial stereotypes over a seven-decade career.

Sandler family members (plus Idina Menzel) lean on each other in this Netflix comedy about growing up.

The PlayStation video game’s realistic cars and racetracks helped Jann Mardenborough find his calling as a professional driver.

Teddy Abrams, the 36-year-old music director of the Louisville Orchestra, has embedded himself in his community, breaking the mold of modern conductors.

A popular racing video game series gets turned into an underdog sports drama in this big-screen adaptation.

In Charlotte Regan’s feature-length debut, a girl wise beyond her years reconnects with her father, an immature drifter.

​A​n amateur tribute with millions of views​ has set off controversies — not about copyright, but about racist texts and the point of fan films to begin with.

The nostalgic ballads and catchy pop songs he wrote paved the way for an international career. He sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.

What mastermind keeps convincing Liam Neeson to make these tough-daddy thrillers?

A saga of high school football players taken advantage of by a dubious start-up is played for entertainment in this flawed documentary.

They are a reminder of the countless histories that don’t exist there — and the work demanded to sustain them.

The Hollywood writers strike entered its 113th day on Wednesday, as the studios made a new offer to the Writers Guild of America. The public disclosure of the Aug. 11 proposal was an unusual step and suggested an attempt to go around union leadership and appeal to rank-and-file members. Writers Strike The offer includes a 3% wage increase over three years, up from the previous offer of 2%. It also includes a new formula for calculating residuals, which would give writers a larger share of the profits from streaming and other new media. The WGA has not yet responded to the offer, but it is expected to discuss it at a meeting of its board of directors on Thursday. The union has said that it is willing to return to the bargaining table, but it has also said that it is prepared to continue the strike if the studios do not make a fair offer. The strike has already had a significant impact on Hollywood, with many TV shows and movies being delayed or cancelled. The studios have estimated that...

One of jam’s most definitive bands is still attracting new recruits, and younger generations are finding comfort in its community.

Atypical star vehicles, ensemble indies, high-powered genre pictures and gripping historical documentaries are among the highlights of this month’s offbeat picks.

For a decade, the last recordings of the psychedelic pop auteur behind Sparklehorse seemed lost or simply unusable. His family found and finished them.

For decades he helped shape Rhode Island’s venerable folk and jazz events, presenting stars and unknowns alike. One colleague called him a “test pilot of jazz.”

The show, which was capitalized for $20 million, will end its Broadway run on Sept. 3 after 123 performances. Its producers say they are planning a national tour.

“Here You Come Again” and “On Cedar Street” are very different new musicals about people who are unmoored and seek companionship to make it through.

Oliver Anthony Music’s song expressing frustration over working-class struggles shot to the top of the Billboard chart after a wave of support from conservative commentators.

A new musical adaptation of a popular novel by S.E. Hinton will begin performances in March.

For around 14 years, the Detroit hardcore collective has kept its members’ identities secret. For “Perfect Saviors,” it’s breaking with its longtime sound — and opening up.

As contract talks stall, the vote, supported by 95 percent of Philadelphia Orchestra players, raises the possibility of a tense standoff.

As contract talks stall, the vote, supported by 95 percent of Philadelphia Orchestra players, raises the possibility of a tense standoff.

Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.

An appeals court in California determined that lawsuits by two men who say Jackson molested them as children can proceed.

Stewart Thorndike sets her gory tale at a hotel reminiscent of the Overlook. The director says her movies are “mirroring” male stories she grew up loving.

Eerie coincidences make the composer’s final work, “Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold,” seem like a requiem written for himself.

“The Blind Side” played on sports fans’ penchant for too-tidy narratives, our columnist writes. A legal battle between the N.F.L. player and the family depicted in the film seeks to answer questions the dramatization looked past.

In partnership with Herb Alpert, he turned a small independent label into a powerhouse with a roster full of superstars.

A newly out transgender man meets with his estranged father, his ex-boyfriend and his sister for the first time since his transition in this drama.

Michael Cera’s latest misfit is a poker addict unable to communicate with his sisters in Dustin Guy Defa’s keen-eyed dramedy.

Two women nurture a reanimated child in this grisly gynecological horror movie.

The plot is boilerplate and the superhero is not particularly compelling. At least his family members steal the show.

Tracks by Morgan Wallen, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift and more have dominated this summer — or at least attempted to.

In Oz Rodriguez’s coming-of-age film, a martial arts-obsessed teenager is determined to throw his first punch.

A teaser for the Netflix biopic has ignited a new round of criticism that the family described as a misunderstanding.

A series of films about the annual CrossFit Games, enthusiastically embraced by the niche fitness community, have become surprise hits on streaming platforms.

Ms. Scotto, a leading Italian soprano, sang more than two dozen roles at the Metropolitan Opera and was a charismatic and demanding stage partner.

The property, which was the home of Dick an Dyke’s character in the 1968 film, is listed for 9 million pounds, or $11.4 million.

The shuttered ArcLight theater complex, whose striking Cinerama Dome evokes a Technicolor past, is a symbol of a movie industry in turmoil, even in its own backyard.

For more than 20 years he’s taught generations to let loose on the dance floor. He’s not stopping anytime soon.

The metal institution is on the road supporting its 11th album. Drawing on four decades of songs, the drummer Lars Ulrich keeps fans, and his bandmates, on their toes.

For one trans viewer, Greta Gerwig’s hit offers both a too-pat idea of gender and a complex view of humanity.

Fans are rushing to collect all 13 of the Brooklyn Public Library’s limited-edition cards, which feature imagery from each of the rapper’s solo albums.

Michael Oher, whose life was depicted in the 2009 film, says in a lawsuit that he was never fully adopted by the family that took him in and was swindled into signing away his decision-making powers at 18.

Melvin Barcliff, who rapped under the name Magoo, was a teenager in Virginia when he joined a hip-hop scene that still influences music today.

If studios greenlight more movies about toys, they’ll be missing the point. Greta Gerwig’s hit is about smart filmmaking, not brand awareness.

Louis Langrée led a week of concerts to conclude his two-decade tenure with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.

The festival is a bright spot on the August calendar, with casual yet tightly plotted concerts of modern and contemporary music.

The rapper’s latest solo album is the first hip-hop release to spend more than a single week atop the Billboard 200 in over a year.

Behind the scenes, he furthered the careers of numerous entertainers, as well as some athletes and politicians.

Pop’s middle class enjoys loyal online fan bases. For these artists, pop stardom isn’t a commercial category, but a sound, an aesthetic and an attitude.

A nostalgic crowd turned out to see an all-star lineup on Friday at Yankee Stadium, not far from the genre’s birthplace.

Denounced in some Middle Eastern countries for undermining traditional gender norms, the hit movie is finding an audience in Saudi Arabia, illustrating the region’s shifting political landscape.

A nostalgic crowd turned out to see an all-star lineup on Friday at Yankee Stadium, not far from the genre’s birthplace.

In between the four operas of the “Ring,” a critic traveled to take in world premieres by Jennifer Walshe and Anthony Braxton.

She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.

After years of being inundated with new shows, some are using a pause in production to finally watch all the stuff they missed when it came out.

He created some of the most controversial — and celebrated — artwork of the punk era, which outraged polite British society almost as much as the band’s music did.

From films with swift swordplay to those with mega-tornadoes, this month’s action picks go big.

The filmmakers didn’t want to disappoint fans of Casey McQuiston’s novel about the romance between a U.S. president’s son and a British prince.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.

Gal Gadot plays an international superspy who teams up with an all-powerful computer in this ludicrous and derivative Netflix espionage thriller.

In this Japanese drama from Koji Fukada, the death of a child alters life for a couple and for the boy’s previously absent father.

This horror movie, based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” is set on a cargo ship unwittingly transporting an evil demon.

Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”

What can pop stars get away with? Plus: the deaths of Sinead O’Connor and Angus Cloud.

In this hybrid film by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, the actress Vera Gemma portrays a complex and vulnerable version of herself.

The music he and his bandmates made stood out by inverting the increasing volume and mania of psychedelic rock. “We just went completely left when everyone else went right,” he once said.

Success came relatively easy — until he tried acting. For a moment, journalism seemed more viable. But now he’s the lead in “Shortcomings.”

Part black comedy, part paranoid thriller, the 1979 movie returns after four decades in a new 35 mm print at Film Forum.

The director Jeff Rowe narrates a sequence from his animated film.

The five-piece punk band from Sweden made a splash in the early 2000s, and their incendiary live shows have never stopped. But new music paused for a decade — until now.

Hear tracks by Wilco, Mitski, maJa and more.

The rapper, now known as Ye, had not performed live since a series of antisemitic comments last year led to rebukes in music and fashion.

The director found himself alone on the promotional tour because his stars couldn’t take part. Still, as a writer, he’s made connections on the picket line.

The rapper’s “Utopia,” his first album since his Astroworld Festival in Houston turned tragic in 2021, opens with the equivalent of 496,000 sales in the United States.

The singer’s family has asked the court to approve a legal arrangement that would govern her medical decisions and finances after relatives objected to the previous care by a longtime friend.

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim.

The historically minded, socially conscious musician offers bluesy, racy, playful tracks on “You’re the One,” her first full album of her own songs.

The Canadian rapper was found guilty in December of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both her feet during an argument.

The producer, writer, director and star has made five imaginative, bewildering low-budget paranormal thrillers, spurring both ridicule and awe.

Nicolas Hodges has carried on with his career as an eminent interpreter of avant-garde music. But it hasn’t been without sacrifices.

Nicolas Hodges has carried on with his career as an eminent interpreter of avant-garde music. But it hasn’t been without sacrifices.

Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out.

No movie in Warner Bros. history has sold so many tickets so fast, the studio said of the movie directed by Greta Gerwig.

The movie has exceeded box office expectations, as China’s female moviegoers celebrate a film that addresses women’s rights head-on.

The pop star’s record-breaking, career-spanning show has dominated the summer, commanding attention and whipping up demand at a level thought unachievable in a fragmented age.

Seeking at least $360,000, the singer accused the storied opera house of discrimination, defamation and breach of contract. The company disputed her claims.

Dinosaurs, androids, darkness and superheroes factor into this months sci-fi picks.

With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike.

Created 75 years ago for the country’s prestigious high school baseball tournament, Yuji Koseki’s “The Crown Will Shine on You” stirs memories as it inspires new ones.

This month’s picks include a stereotype-defying shape-shifter, superpowered shelter pets and the newest “Guardians of the Galaxy” adventure.

The countertenor and his husband, Scott Walters, each face a charge of aggravated sexual assault in Texas.

The addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big “why?” musical with a big wow factor.

Directed by Randall Park, this charming comedy about a Japanese American man’s belated coming-of-age touches upon fascinating questions of identity but fails to dig below the surface.

Chris Kuroda has brought more than 1,750 of the group’s shows to life since 1989, handling one of the most complex gigs in the business: responding in real time, without a set list.

This lively sequel to 2018’s somewhat tepid killer-shark blockbuster greatly improves upon its predecessor by getting gorier, funnier and more stylish.

With the Sinfonia of London, Wilson has explored the variety of music — light and serious alike — that defined his musical upbringing.

This drama about two brothers coming of age in Toronto is imbued with big emotions, but has trouble sustaining its story.

Peso Pluma, Ice Spice, Skrillex, 100 gecs and more.

The country star’s song, now a culture war battleground, is his first all-genre chart topper. The K-pop group NewJeans’ new album edged out the “Barbie” soundtrack on the Billboard 200.

Others are using the service, through which fans can pay for personalized videos, to engage with followers while not publicly promoting work.