Madeline Denise McCarthy and Matthew Thorn Smith made their acting debuts in 2000 in a TV ad promoting the Yogi Berra Museum Learning Center at Montclair State University in Little Falls, N.J. Both were in first grade. Mr. Smith had run circles arou
During golden hour on the beach in St. George’s, Grenada, on Sept. 1, 2023, Justin Alexander Jackson suggested that he and Monica Corin McNutt take a couple of selfies. After setting a timer on his phone, Mr. Jackson posed for a photo with Ms. McNut
The title of Michael John LaChiusa’s “See What I Wanna See” suggests a single perspective, but the show actually offers a kaleidoscopic approach to the truth. It ravels out one story about a murder and a rape only to follow it up, in Rashomon-like f
If a presidential election is a TV series — and partly it is, like it or not — then the vice-presidential debate is usually a departure episode: an installment that briefly shifts focus to a couple of side characters. It might be memorable or forget
Image Sue Li’s zha jiang mian.Credit...Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Good morning. I’m still smarting over the two really expensive sandwiches I bought the other day at a gourmet shop in the next town over: one o
Gregory Anthony Harrington, a celebrated solo violinist, had experienced years of unfulfilling relationships with women he said couldn’t understand his commitment to music. Kelly Cathleen Downey was also fed up with attempts at relationships: Dates,
It’s natural to feel nervous before presenting your movie at a major film festival. But in late August, when the director Ali Abbasi boarded a flight to the Telluride Film Festivalfb899, he wasn’t even sure if his new movie “The Apprentice” — a fict
What makes Lorne Michaels laugh? That’s no small question. Half a century of aspiring stars have thought hard on it. The answer has launched and stymied many careers while going a long way to defining modern comedy. The hagiographic new movie “Satur
How do we hold our shared history? Like a drink? Like a lover? Or does it slip through our fingers, like water from the bay? “The Wind and the Rain,” a new play by Sarah Gancher (“Russian Troll Farm”), which reclaims the recent past as pageantsure w