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The actor and environmentalist considered hiring a ghostwriter for help with his memoir, then realized as he was writing things down, “This is too much fun.”

Hear tracks by PinkPantheress, the Rolling Stones featuring Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga, and others.

The man, a former gang leader named Duane Keith Davis, has said the four shots that killed the rapper in 1996 came from the vehicle he was riding in.

A judge ended a nearly 20-year-old conservatorship that had given a couple broad authority over the affairs of the former N.F.L. player Michael Oher.

In this month’s selections, extraterrestrials roam and the Earth wanders.

This month’s picks look at the art of directing, the joy of walking and the complexities of racial identity.

The dizzyingly diverse program ranges from the quiet “Here” to Michael Mann’s psychological portrait of a carmaker, “Ferrari.”

On Popcast, a conversation about the singer-songwriter’s approach to stardom, his dogged work ethic and his artistic coalition with fellow dissidents.

Recently restored, “The Batwoman” (1968) stars Maura Monti in the title role. The actress’s own story could be a movie, too.

The 10th movie in this horror series gives the fans what they want.

After a photo of the pop superstar at an N.F.L. game last weekend went viral, snack and condiment companies raced to capitalize.

The actor conveyed the gravitational force of mortality, tugging the men he played so commandingly toward a void beyond meaning, our critic writes.

The writer-director John Carney, whose feature “Once” made musical waves, returns with another charming songwriter tale.

The first feature from Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) arrives in a remastered version on streaming services.

In Rudy Valdez’s poignant but shortsighted documentary, the guitarist’s magic comes alive in performances and childhood recollections.

Over 230 pieces went under the hammer, including sculptures by Rodin. The French actor — now dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct — once played the artist in a movie.

As part of its push to stage more contemporary works, the company has turned to one of the most widely produced operas of the 21st century.

The term may be popular in an age of blurring lines between platforms, but the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue creative work.

Breaking down Doja Cat’s surprising new album, “Scarlet,” plus: Swift’s foray into football and Hasan Minhaj’s fibs.

The conductor, an acclaimed Wagnerian, was named to replace Barenboim, who stepped down in January after three decades because of health problems.

For years, the director puzzled over an adaptation of “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Then he let the characters say things they weren’t meant to.

How hotshot directors are reimagining “Cats,” “Evita,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Sunset Boulevard.”

She aided in the rediscovery of Oscar Micheaux and others who were telling stories for Black audiences early in the last century.

A singer, songwriter and virtuoso musician, he was a founder of the clean-cut group the Association and wrote one of its biggest hits, “Cherish.”

Usher is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, inspiring a playlist of fantastic “yeah” tracks.

Wildly original comedy-dramas, hair-raising horror and modest examinations of male tenderness are among the highlights of this month’s off-the-grid streaming recommendations.

The New York rap duo of Billy Woods and Elucid tackle inequality, aging and anxiety on their sixth album, “We Buy Diabetic Test Strips.”

How will the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures put on its star-studded fund-raiser this year, amid the polarizing strike? Very carefully.

Follow the winding roads to Mountain View, Ark., home of the Ozark Folk Center, and you’ll be rewarded with fiddles, banjos, guitars and a passion for music.

The group founded in 1967 has carried on after the death of its longtime leader, Edgar Froese, but his impact on its music is still resonating.

The Florida rapper’s latest hit LP bumps Olivia Rodrigo’s “Guts” to No. 2 in its second week of release.

Carlos Acosta’s first major commission as the leader of Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates a local band and the hard-rocking genre it invented.

By and large, women and girls are the victims of violent crimes, not the perpetrators. But not always. Here are four picks across TV, film and podcast that turn the tables.

SeokJong Baek began his opera career as a baritone. This season at the Metropolitan Opera, he’ll perform in “Nabucco” and “Turandot” as a tenor.

The Writers Guild of America got most of what it wanted. With actors still on picket lines, however, much of Hollywood will remain shut down.

At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

“It’s an honor of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list,” the eight-time Grammy winner said.

In conservative South Korea, few L.G.B.T.Q. entertainers have ever come out. The young members of QI.X don’t see the point of staying in.

The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry.

Twelve designers, architects and others reflect on the movie and TV homes, from SoHo lofts to houses on the park, that inspired them to move to the city, and informed their aesthetics.

Hear tracks by Holly Humberstone, Byron Messia, Laurel Halo and others.

This month’s picks include an Argentine documentary about reproductive justice, an uproarious Tamil riff on superhero movies, a visual essay about Ireland and Britain, and more.

This death-row tale, adapted by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, opens the season of the Metropolitan Opera, as part of its push for newer works.

The East Village venue wasn’t just a performance space — it was Rivers’s home. On the saxophonist’s centennial, Jason Moran and other artists celebrate his legacy.

“Succession” meets Brian De Palma in this delicious family-fortune thriller from France, directed by Sébastien Marnier.

Sylvester Stallone leads an all-star mercenary squadron composed of ’80s-to-aughts brutes in the fourth installment of this franchise.

The singer, who already faces one lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

A conversation about how the musician, who died this month at 76, turned a way of life into a song — and that song back into a very profitable way of life.

James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s eloquently argued experimental film warns of a contemporary Hollywood dangerously obsessed with the past.

This feature debut about a high schooler’s struggle with her cultural identity is promising, even if the allegory doesn’t always land.

In this too-languid drama, a young transgender woman and her family butt heads during a fraught beach vacation.

Christine Yoo’s new documentary follows the inmates of San Quentin Prison in California who train to run a grueling marathon inside its yard.

A grumpy man warms to a good-natured housekeeper in this film directed by Klaus Haro.

Gael García Bernal plays a flamboyant figure taking the world of Mexican professional wrestling by storm in this underdog drama directed by Roger Ross Williams.

The film’s subtitle is drawn from one of the performer’s quotes in his autobiography “Here I Stand”: “I’m a Negro. I’m an American.”

Plus: what it’s like in Sean Combs’s sauna.

The indie-rock singer-songwriter said in a statement on his website that he was expected to recover from the rare neurological condition.

The tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars in “Doppelganger,” a staging of “Schwanengesang” by Claus Guth, making his New York debut.

He also adapted his best-known novel, “Where’s Poppa?,” into the script for a raw Carl Reiner comedy and directed the disco movie “Thank God It’s Friday.”

Stanley Kubrick’s called his first feature, which is getting a new run at Metrograph, “boring and pretentious.” Instead, it is a revelation.

Fifty years into hip-hop’s constant evolution, many of today’s rappers don’t write down their lyrics at all. Here’s how they make songs now.

Hear songs by Willie Nelson, TLC, King Crimson and more.

A Briton with a rich baritone, he charmed audiences, mostly in Europe and America, with sentimental songs, like his signature hit, “The Last Farewell.”

Barrera, the Mexican American producer, has the most nods with 13 ahead of this year’s ceremony, which will be held on Nov. 16 in Seville, Spain.

This documentary from Morgan Neville and Jeff Malmberg reconsiders the troubled career of Mike Veeck, a son of the M.L.B. impresario Bill Veeck.

Yes, it’s a film about a famous middle-aged scientist. But it also captures the primal dissonance of being a young woman.

Build a real music collection. Reintroduce intimacy to the songs you care about.

Many U.S. studios’ blockbusters are filmed in Britain, so the walkouts by actors and screenwriters have caused thousands of U.K. film crews to lose work.

Global performers including Angelique Kidjo, Laurie Anderson and José Feliciano will inaugurate the theater at ground zero.

With its home theater under renovation, the Komische Oper branches out, beginning with Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa” at Tempelhof Airport.

The 20-year-old singer-songwriter’s follow-up to her 2021 debut, “Sour,” has the fourth-biggest opening of any LP this year so far.

This documentary, which Penn directed with Aaron Kaufman, includes Penn’s interview with the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on the first day of Russia’s invasion.

Since striking movie stars are not allowed to promote studio films, filmmakers unexpectedly, and in some cases uneasily, have the spotlight to themselves.

The stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely.

The singer, who appeared on the hit track “Where My Girls At?,” took a “medical leave of absence” from the group late last year; a cause of death was not immediately available.

The Russian star soprano appeared in her first staged opera in Germany since the Ukraine invasion, still under fire for her past support for President Vladimir V. Putin.

The host had defended restarting production on Friday despite the writers’ strike, but changed course on Sunday, saying, “I have listened to everyone.”

The Rolling Stone co-founder’s exit comes a day after The New York Times published an interview in which he made widely criticized comments.

The hero vs. bully template made famous in the ’80s gets subverted in this indie comedy, as well as in Hulu’s “Miguel Wants to Fight.”

The singer, who brings her autobiographical show to Broadway this month, on her longtime love for the Kansas City Chiefs and what she’s looking forward to in New York.

An intense and uncompromising player, he made music that one critic said was more about “motion and spirit” than tonal centers, rhythms and melodies.

Taking over for his father in 1961, he transformed a former vaudeville house in Harlem into a pre-eminent R&B showcase.

Hear tracks by Cat Power, Chris Stapleton, Loraine James and others.

Davidsen, a true dramatic soprano, was the rare singer whose first New York recital came at the Metropolitan Opera House.

The festival’s highlights ranged from Agnieszka Holland’s agonizing “Green Border,” about the migrant crisis, to Richard Linklater’s fizzy “Hit Man.”

This month’s picks will take you on a global tour of terror, with tales of a Taiwanese gay ghost and a Norwegian canine whose owner is a dog’s worst friend.

Movies directed by actors were prominent at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Could the reasons they’re striking also underlie the career move?

In “A Haunting in Venice,” the facial hair is practically a character, and it evolves as needed, thanks to the designer who considers it “a friend.”

The movie about the daring mission to rescue American diplomats from Tehran portrayed a single C.I.A. officer sneaking into the Iranian capital. In reality, the agency sent two officers.

In Berlin, the Komische Oper is experimenting with its performance venues while its theater undergoes a multiyear renovation.

Some showrunners, eager for progress in the Hollywood strike, want the Writers Guild of America to meet with studios. How much sway they still have is in question.

A deep dive into whom the singer’s new songs might be about — and if it matters. Plus: Zach Bryan’s breakthrough and recent arrest.

Alexandre Kantorow, 26, joins an esteemed group of pianists who have won the Gilmore Artist Award, which is given every four years.

A singer who performed alongside Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, he was known for his topical songs, some of which he wrote in minutes.

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in this adaptation of a ghostly mystery from Agatha Christie, with assists from Michelle Yeoh and Tina Fey.

The leaders of the Belarus Free Theater, who fled the country more than a decade ago, are helping more recent refugees to rebuild their lives while putting on a new show.

Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James will reprise the roles they played Off Broadway earlier this year.

A founder of the acclaimed Jazz Passengers, he was also a sought-after sideman who played trombone for both jazz and rock heavyweights.

The prominent Los Angeles nonprofit chose the playwright to oversee its artistic programming at a time of crisis for American theaters.

The music mogul, 53, has a new album, a new (psychedelics-fueled) self-image and a fresh sense of purpose.

Julia Bullock, an artist of sensitivity and intelligence, appeared at the Park Avenue Armory with the pianist John Arida.

The Italian group has become a global sensation — by giving Gen Z a taste of a genre that might have already taken its final breath.

It’s not stage-filling spectacle, but Barrie Kosky’s version of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the start of a four-opera epic, is eerie, vivid and intense.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.

Social justice, romance and gay pride are alive in a sound that would seduce the world.

Appearing together for the first time since 2002, the band celebrated the film in a Q. and A. with Spike Lee at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Appearing together for the first time since 2002, the band celebrated the film in a Q. and A. with Spike Lee at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The play, by Amy Herzog, is about a mother caring for a chronically ill child.

The work, by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and the American playwright George Brant, is inspired by the accounts of mothers whose children were taken during the war.

The new LP by the singer-songwriter Zach Bryan holds at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, after a ticket sale for his new tour and the musician’s arrest in Oklahoma.

“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.

The singer Wang Fang drew criticism after she performed “Katyusha,” a Soviet-era patriotic song, at the ruins of a theater in Mariupol.

The trumpeter will release “Owl Song,” a spare new album, this fall as he takes on a new role as artistic director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.

The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone as a woman who goes on a sexual and philosophical journey. The announcement of its win was met with a roar of applause.

He was best known for his jazz work. But he was also heard on Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” and with orchestras conducted by Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.

The 40th-anniversary restoration of a great concert film is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.

The 40th-anniversary restoration of a great concert film is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.

This month’s picks include films with complex schemes, vengeful spouses and plenty of brawling.

At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female stories.

Lynn Lynn was a musical idol when he volunteered in 2015 to protect the life of Myanmar’s new civilian leader. Forced to flee after 2021’s coup, he has reinvented himself as a film director.

Lynn Lynn was a musical idol when he volunteered in 2015 to protect the life of Myanmar’s new civilian leader. Forced to flee after 2021’s coup, he has reinvented himself as a film director.

Nia Vardalos is back in a noisy sequel that cedes the punchlines, and the plotlines, to the more cacophonous members of the Portokalos clan.

The latest installment in the “Conjuring” franchise continues a formula of frights with a splash of religious world building.

This year’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Bradley Cooper in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men.

The film “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” a gay teen romance set in 1980s Texas and adapted from Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s novel, is tenderhearted but meandering.

The delay of some big titles, like “Dune: Part Two,” has ramifications for coming releases like “May December” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Spinoffs and chillers abound in a month filled with tons of new television. Here’s the best of what’s coming.

This documentary attempts to give a unique look at Queen Elizabeth II by speaking to photographers who took portraits of her.

The country musician has sung about racial violence and made a video depicting a queer love story. His new album, “Rustin’ in the Rain,” was inspired by his roots — and Elvis Presley.

This documentary, subtitled “The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America,” unveils the legacy organization’s habit of covering up cases of sexual abuse.

The drummer helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s and delivered a message of resistance and liberation from the 1960s on. Listen to 13 selections from musicians, writers and critics.