Over a fascinating and still unfurling Grammy-nominated career that includes recording a half-dozen studio albums, touring to celebrate the music of David Bowie and, perhaps most famously, co-writing the opening theme to the TV show “Parks and Recreation,” the Latin Grammy-winning singer and songwri..

A moody noir pop-up, “Gemini” is writer/director Aaron Katz’s alluring, self-reflexive Los Angeles-set mystery that also doubles as a pictorial mash note to the city’s gleaming spaces and dreaming inhabitants. At the crux of its titular duality is a showbiz relationship of commonality and convenien..

For her feature debut, Olivia Newman could have made a standard sports drama about a teenage girl breaking into the world of boys wrestling. Instead, in “First Match,” the writer-director tells an unvarnished story that grapples with the complexity of father-daughter relationships and the desperatio..

“Finding Your Feet” would be facedown on the ground if it didn’t have its well-burnished cast of U.K. acting heavyweights, led by Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Another entry in the fast-spreading genre of pensioners-are-people-too comedies, it finds Staunton’s uptig..

Reprise Theatre Company will try for an encore when founder Marcia Seligson brings it back as Reprise 2.0 in June with “Sweet Charity,” directed by Kathleen Marshall. The company, which specialized in producing rarely staged musical theater, ceased operations in 2013 because of a lack of funding. ...

Susan Rice, who served as national security advisor and ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, has been appointed to the board of directors of Netflix, the streaming entertainment company announced Wednesday. Rice becomes the 11th member of Netflix’s board, which is chaired by...