New perspectives on how history is made
His name is Henry Walter Bates. He's finally getting the credit he deserves.
It is different from anything you’ve ever seen.
You want true history? How much truer can it get than this?
The painting, by Grant Wood, is a triumph. The tragedy is that he is only known for that work. A new exhibit at the Whitney may change that.
It’s about a 1932 Mafia Christmas and it couldn’t be more fun.
It’s a riposte to Afro-pessimism and Afro-defeatism.
In a new play the immigrants' struggle – and the moral complexity of their lives – takes center stage.
This year’s Oscars show we haven’t grown out of our love for them.
Clooney showed with his movie about Edward R. Murrow that he can’t be trusted to tell history straight.
Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" won a Pulitzer in 1928. And now it's been turned into a play. It doesn't work.
It is a good look at television history, but it’s not exactly "Madame Butterfly." The language is obscene.
A review of "Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics," a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
See "American Hero." It will make your soul shudder.
An exhibit at the Morgan Library in New York City features Tennessee Williams.
"Miles for Mary" is an often very funny play about corporate and organizational meetings (we’ve all sat through them) that go nowhere and set the participants against each other.
For many Americans, this will be the first time they have seen “good Muslims” fighting the terrorists.
Experience what it was like to live like the people in Downtown Abbey.
They're on display now in a wonderful exhibit at the Met.
Now playing on 42nd Street!
In the latest NY production starring Robert Fairchild he is part monster, part ballet dancer and all gorgeous.
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