Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment
‘Joker: Folie à Deux’: Don’t come to this musical looking to get happy
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” a sequel that’s most interesting for ideas that are buried in grim entertainment.
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Summer’s over. What was the real meaning of ‘Brat’?
Charli XCX made a pop masterpiece that’s still leaving its mark.
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Gabriel LaBelle keeps portraying the greats. Could he be one?
How did Gabriel LaBelle, star of “Saturday Night,” nail Lorne Michaels? With work, charisma and “dad energy.”
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10 noteworthy books for October
New books this month include fiction from Michael Connelly and Glory Edim’s memoir.
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‘Saturday Night’ goes inside the chaotic ‘Live! From New York!’ debut
Entertainingly pointless, Jason Reitman’s movie is still more fun than the current SNL.
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Matthew Broderick is totally fine being unlikable
“The last few years, I seem to play pretty bad people,” says Matthew Broderick, who stars in “Babbitt” at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company.
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Daniel Dae Kim as a playwright at wit’s end
David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” on Broadway tackles tricky questions of representation, authenticity and who gets to tell whose story.
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Alleged ‘memoir’ from Diddy’s ex-partner Kim Porter pulled from Amazon
Amazon says it was “made aware of a dispute” involving the book, which Porter’s family has denounced as a fabrication.
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The surprising connections between Lincoln and Eisenhower
Two new plays, “Mister Lincoln” with Scott Bakula and “Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground,” reveal connections between the two wartime presidents.
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Dumbarton Oaks exhibit reverses the roles of house and garden
Artist Santiago Montoya designed a series of houses for the historic home — most of which sprout in Dumbarton’s elegant gardens.
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Why ‘Love is Blind’ swiped right on D.C.’s notoriously bleak dating scene
The Netflix reality show’s creator and head of casting tease what to expect from the upcoming seventh season.
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Gavin Creel poured his heart into his final show
Tony Award-winning actor Gavin Creel, who died on Monday at age 48, combined confidence and swagger with unflinching vulnerability.
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National Book Awards finalists announced for 2024
The winners will be named in a ceremony on Nov. 20. Did your favorite book make the cut?
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