John C. Reilly has been a staple of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, starred in serious and satirical biopics, made a legend of a man-child stepbrother, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for his haunting turn as Amos — “Mister Cellophane” — in “Chicago.” But the character closest to …
At the Eurovision Song Contest, one rule stands above all others: no politics. That order is enforced by the competition’s organizer, the European Broadcasting Union, an opaque federation of nearly 70 public service broadcasters, based in Geneva. It scrutinizes performers’ lyrics, their outfits and even their stage props in hopes …
With her pink headband, denim overalls and permanent smile, Ms. Rachel has become a mainstay in the households of preschool-aged children who are drawn to her good cheer and singalongs. Parents revere her pedagogical practicing of skills like waving, clapping and pronouncing consonants. The former music teacher’s YouTube videos became …
Eight times a week at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan, the entire, harrowing arc of a classic tragedy is delivered in 4½ minutes that are as exhilarating as they are upsetting. All the textbook components of tragedy according to Aristotle are vigorously at work here: self-delusion and self-knowledge, pity and …
Walter Theodore Rollins: the “saxophone colossus.” Jazz’s Prometheus, its Siddhartha and its heavyweight champ. Or, as Nate Chinen once put it in a New York Times review of one of Rollins’s marathon-like concerts, “the great unflagging sovereign of the tenor saxophone.” Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era …
On the SoHo corner where Prince and Elizabeth Streets meet, dog walkers, errand runners and lunch breakers squinted through the April sun at the part man, part beat-emanating automaton approaching them. Ari Miller, 25, known by his artist name AriAtHome, is a New York-based wayfaring musician who turns heads with …
On a brisk morning a few weeks ago on the roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the artist Jennie C. Jones was previewing “Ensemble,” her suite of elegant, angular sculptural works for the museum’s annual Roof Garden commission, which opens on Tuesday. Three sculptures glistened in the sunlight, …
Michael Hurley, a singer and songwriter whose music — an idiosyncratic kind of folk mixed with a variety of other styles — made him a revered elder to younger artists like Cat Power, Devendra Banhart and the band Yo La Tengo, died on April 1 in Portland, Ore. He was …
Matteo Lane April 5 at 8 p.m. at Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan; msg.com. A man of many talents, Matteo Lane used to live in Italy working as a painter and an opera singer before he returned to Chicago to start his comedy career. Since …
Cristóbal Tapia de Veer did not have an entirely pleasant stay at “The White Lotus.” Mr. Tapia de Veer, a 51-year-old composer who was born in Chile, joined a video call on Monday from his home in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec, a gong the size of a beach ball …
