Classical musicians love to play Brahms. The proof is in the frequency in which Brahms’ chamber music is programmed, and in the smiles on faces as musicians dig into the formal structures, the rich and technically satisfying chordal textures and the reassuring Romantic-period affirmations that...

It’s intermission during Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water by the Spoonful,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning centerpiece of her Elliot trilogy of plays portraying the experiences of a Marine during and after the Iraq war. It’s interesting, a tall young man says, how each actor in each play puts his stamp...

K.D. Lang didn’t futz with the arrangements on her 1992 album “Ingénue” when she brought it to the Theatre at Ace Hotel as part of a tour launched last year to mark the record’s 25th anniversary. And why on earth would she? A canny and sumptuous blend of roots music and pre-rock pop, “Ingénue”...

MoviePass is eyeing a broadening of its app capabilities to create a full-featured movie-going experience by tracking where people go before and after the theater, the company said Monday night. Before going to a movie, film lovers might fancy some refreshments. Or maybe afterward, they want to...

The deal for an investor group to acquire Harvey Weinstein’s former movie and TV studio has collapsed in yet another twist to an ongoing saga that has seen agreements come and go amid the general chaos surrounding the Weinstein Co. A source close to Maria Contreras-Sweet, a former Obama administrat..

"This is my posse," Frances McDormand said as she approached the hulking security men guarding the entrance to the Vanity Fair Oscar party Sunday night. The guards waved the freshly minted Oscar winner and her crew into the bash at the Wallis Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and as...

“You know what she wants to do?” spits Aunt Mattie bitterly at the aspiring Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) in William A. Wellman’s 1937 picture “A Star Is Born.” “She wants to go to Hollywood.” Standing before the Dolby Theatre at Sunday’s Academy Awards, it’s easy to think of Hollywood as a physic..

“I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider.” With that cryptic salvo from the stage at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, lead actress winner Frances McDormand sent much of Hollywood frantically Googling and speed-dialing their attorneys to figure out what...