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Dead Men Do Tell (Funny) Tales: Operation Mincemeat

A genuinely funny musical about one of World War II’s oddest espionage gambits. By Sara Holdren

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The Pitt Recap: Code Triage

Just when you think this show can’t possibly keep one-upping itself, it goes and delivers an episode like this. By Maggie Fremont

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Jonathan Majors’s Controversial Career and Comeback

The actor stars in Magazine Dreams two years after his arrest and subsequent sentencing for domestic violence. By Jennifer Zhan

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Who Needs Intimacy Coordinators?

In the aftermath of Me Too, the profession was deemed a necessity. Now, some actors are casting doubt on its value. By Fran Hoepfner

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What About Katie? Adolescence ignores her story to its detriment.
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I Don’t Know Why, But Snow White Is Totally About Lefty Infighting In a tale as old as time, a sheltered princess meets a rakish dirtbag leftist who radicalizes her by negging her about her privilege.
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Adolescence Doesn’t Have the Answer Less a mystery than a simmering social portrait, the Netflix series chases the question of why and finds little more than despair.
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We See You, Andrew Scott The actor creates a full, heartbreaking world inside his solo performance of Vanya.
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distressed assets The Studio Behind Magazine Dreams Is Hollywood’s Home for Canceled Movies After Searchlight Pictures dumped the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding drama, only one studio dared touch it — the same one that rescued The Apprentice. By Chris Lee
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theater review The Buena Vista Social Club Gets Bigger and Smaller on Broadway Revising Cuba’s past with a trimmed book, but more thrilling dance. By Jackson McHenry

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You’ll Have to Wait Un Poco for Coco 2

Remember Miguel, because it’ll be a couple more years before we see him and Dante again. By Alejandra Gularte

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Why Ben Stiller Ended Severance With Mel Tormé’s ‘Crazy Drug Trip’

The director explains what drew him to some of season two’s key needle drops. By Devon Ivie

break room gossip Is That What You Expected? And Other Severance Questions With this show, sometimes the answers can take you deeper down the rabbit hole than any of the questions ever did. By Brian Grubb
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Adolescence Doesn’t Have the Answer Less a mystery than a simmering social portrait, the Netflix series chases the question of why and finds little more than despair. By Nicholas Quah

since she been gone Kelly Clarkson Made It Back for Her Show’s 1,000th Episode The queen of covers is back in Studio 6A and no song is safe. By Tom Smyth
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Selena Gomez Transports Herself Back to Waverly Place

She haunts a studio lot in “Younger And Hotter Than Me.” By Alejandra Gularte

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John Mulaney’s Playhouse

In his new live talk show, the comedian is allowed to do whatever he wants. What exactly is that? By Kathryn VanArendonk

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The Buena Vista Social Club Gets Bigger and Smaller on Broadway

Revising Cuba’s past with a trimmed book, but more thrilling dance. By Jackson McHenry

theater review We See You, Andrew Scott The actor creates a full, heartbreaking world inside his solo performance of Vanya. By Sara Holdren
theater review A Storied Black Family Faces Itself in Purpose A household very much like Jesse Jackson’s has a brutal, if overdetermined, birthday celebration. By Jackson McHenry
sure Donald Trump Claims He ‘Never Liked Hamilton Very Much’ Anyway After Lin-Manuel Miranda chose not to stage it at the Kennedy Center under Trump’s new board. By Jason P. Frank
coming soon How Sweet It Is (to Get a James Taylor Jukebox Musical) Written by Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts and directed by Tony winner David Cromer. By Jason P. Frank

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A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go Mad Jack O’Brien’s new Ibsen adaptation could use a couple more brainworms. By Sara Holdren

mask 4 unmasked Orville Peck to Go Mask Off for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club The masked cowboy will be an unmasked emcee. By Jason P. Frank
another suitcase another show Don’t Cry for Rachel Zegler, Argentina Zegler will play Eva Perón in the West End production of Jamie Lloyd’s Evita. By Jason P. Frank
theater review Mescal and Ferran in Streetcar: Yes, Yes, Magic! Rebecca Frecknall’s production at BAM has it all. By Sara Holdren
theater review How Do You Measure a Career? The Jonathan Larson Project. A revue of the Rent creator’s trunk songs and offcuts isn’t profound, but it’s moving all the same. By Jackson McHenry

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book review The Gay Dirtbag Lives On Kristen Arnett’s specialty is queer women in Florida who are Going Through Some Stuff. By Sam Worley
books Torrey Peters Speaks Lumberjack The Stag Dance author on exploring transness as a feeling through logger slang. “I was like, I just want to write these weird words.” By Andrea Long Chu
metafiction vibes “It’s Pretty Human, But It’s Still Bad.” Analyzing OpenAI’s ‘metafictional literary short story’ with an open-minded English professor. By Emma Alpern
books Cynthia Ozick Is Undiminished Nearing 97, she’s universally praised, freshly republished, and (maybe even) more widely read than ever. She’s also a world-class emailer. By Linda Hall
cheat sheet Say ‘I Do’ to the Divorce Memoir Everyone’s writing about the end of their marriage, for better or worse. By Emma Alpern

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the work of art Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself. By Adam Moss
art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan