This spring, Whitney White directed the ensemble drama “Liberation” Off Broadway, then the two-hander “The Last Five Years” on Broadway. Just days after that musical opened, she stood in an upstairs room at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, rehearsing “Macbeth in Stride,” her adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, which begins …
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 …
speaker 1 Love now and — speaker 2 Did you fall in love last night? speaker 3 Just tell her I love her. speaker 4 Love is stronger than anything you can see. speaker 5 Feel the love. speaker 6 Love. speaker 7 And I love you more than anything. …
On the set of the third season of “The White Lotus,” which shot for seven sticky months in luxury hotels in Bangkok and Koh Samui, Thailand, the writer and director Mike White had a repeated note for the actor Patrick Schwarzenegger. “You’re not walking rich enough,” White would yell across …
The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art, photographs and memos. They are studded with the celebrated names — E.B. White, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Rachel Carson — that filled this most …
Season 3, Episode 1: ‘Same Spirits, New Forms’ Take a moment. Focus on your breathing. Calm your mind. Let the sounds of the external world fade away. Did you just hear gunshots? Ignore them. Embrace the now. Find in your minds what is timeless. Pay no attention to the corpse …
In the days after Donald J. Trump was re-elected president one of his most high-profile stops was at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event at Madison Square Garden. Mr. Trump’s appearance in the front row was notable, as was the presence of some of his closest confidantes, like Elon Musk, who …