Review: ‘Familiar,’ a Comic Clash of Assimilation on the Path to a Wedding
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
In Danai Gurira’s fiercely funny new play, impending nuptials expose a culture clash and deep fissures within a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota.
Forest Whitaker as Erie Smith in the play “Hughie” at the Booth Theater.
The play, which had been scheduled to run through June 12, will now close on March 27.
From left: Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery and Hugh Bonneville in “Downton Abbey.”
You enjoyed the Crawleys when they were the hot new thing, then you drifted. But with end times approaching, here’s a crash course in Downtonology.
The Met’s new contemporary-art outpost opens to the public on March 18. Our chief art critics, Roberta Smith and Holland Cotter, got an early look.
“Nasreen Mohamedi” is one of two inaugural exhibitions at the Met Breuer.
The Met’s new contemporary-art outpost opens to the public on March 18. Our chief art critics, Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith, got an early look.
Shaka Senghor
“The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict” and “Writing My Wrongs” paint harrowing portraits of incarceration in America.
Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) in “Zootopia.”
As the first rabbit police officer in Zootopia, Judy Hopps is stuck writing parking tickets, but the ambitious bunny pokes her nose into a missing-mammal epidemic.
Emanuel Figueroa, front left, and Alexa Maetta, front right, New York City high school students, during a rehearsal of “West Side Story” at the Knockdown Center in Queens.
The chorus in Carnegie Hall’s new production includes participants from its Somewhere Project, an outreach program exploring what this musical means to New Yorkers today.
Picasso’s “Portrait de Femme” (circa 1897).
There’s a relative dearth of the sort of aesthetic, conceptual or political extremism that might have shocked casual art fans a few years ago.
Beauford Delaney’s “Untitled” (1948).
There is a strong African-American presence this year, many historical shows and a number of concept exhibitions.
In Danai Gurira’s fiercely funny new play, impending nuptials expose a culture clash and deep fissures within a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota.
This Lucas Hnath drama features a competitive swimmer who makes a surprising revelation.
This collage tribute piece celebrates the French poet Arthur Rimbaud as the man who invented downtown as a state of mind.
The Dallas Museum of Art’s current survey of Jackson Pollock’s black paintings includes a recently acquired sculpture by that artist, one of six that survive.
In a private room in Los Angeles, the star and co-creator of “The Last Man on Earth” belts his way through “Mama Tried,” “Help Me” and “Superstar.”
Starring Christian Bale, Terrence Malick’s film addresses the existential, and erotic, issues of a screenwriter in Los Angeles.
In this horror film directed by Michael Thelin, a girl hired to mind the children in a household turns out to be a dire threat to them.
“The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict” and “Writing My Wrongs” paint harrowing portraits of incarceration in America.
Based on Kim Barker’s memoir, “The Taliban Shuffle,” the comedy depicts the battle-tested experience of a journalist in Afghanistan.
Mr. Thayer developed ideas for concealing troops, battlefield equipment, battleships and submarines. Also, the Jewish Museum explores fake heirlooms.
Roar Uthaug’s disaster movie follows a family and others in a Norwegian village confronting a crumbling mountain and the cataclysm that follows.
A muted dreamscape from the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is best known for his “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”
Mr. Iyer, the 2015-16 artist in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, began his residency in the Breuer’s lobby.
Mr. Sivan bantered easily with his young audience as he performed songs from his album, “Blue Neighborhood,” in a concert at Webster Hall.
An art critic shares his list of which fairs to see (including the Armory and the Art Dealers Association) and how to navigate them.
The country’s culture minister, who is visiting the United States, said that the effort is “what we owe the victims.”
A lawyer and television executive, Mr. Beck persuaded Palau to claim a U.N. seat and then occupied it as its ambassador.
“Barbara Cook: Then and Now,” inspired by a coming book of the same name, begins performances on April 13.
Johanna Schwartz’s film follows musicians in exile after Islamic jihadists banned music in their home country.
The writer was a 24-year-old actor when he had the idea for the British soap opera.
Christopher Leacock, the D.J., producer, label owner and member of Major Lazer, likes to decompress on his couch.
A quiet tale of cultural oppression, in Maori and English, set in the New Zealand of more than 100 years ago.
With the unveiling of a poster and a trailer for the movie “Nina” came new questions about whether Ms. Saldana was the right choice for the title role.
Dawn Porter’s film offers an examination of clinics facing the so-called TRAP laws, or the targeted regulation of abortion providers.
The orchestra, conducted by Mikhail Pletnev at Carnegie Hall, included the “Firebird” Suite and a Violin concerto featuring Stefan Jackiw.
There is a mysterious bloodstain beneath Ava’s rug, and there are criminal charges for assault and indecent exposure to be faced.
Two dancers who discovered their chemistry only after they were no longer with the same company are together in TRIO ConcertDance at the Joyce.
Abner Pastoll’s thriller focuses on two hitchhikers and the eccentric motorist who picks them up.
This documentary covers a movement’s development over more than a century, from the pogroms that drove Jews from Europe in the 1880s to the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Mamoru Hosoda’s fantasy tells of a runaway transported to a world whose mammals include a bear that trains him for a warrior’s life.
In the 1930s reporters were the heroes, but not exactly exemplars of the Fourth Estate.
Aaron Eckhart plays American’s leader visiting London, and Gerard Butler is his Secret Service protector when bloody chaos erupts.
Mr. Chilton, a trumpet-playing fixture on the British jazz scene, wrote a survey of Billie Holiday’s career, definitive biographies and a memoir.
The actor writes about his role in a brutally unforgiving play: A man and a woman confront each other 15 years after their very illegal relationship — when he was 40 and she was all of 12.
Hollywood was guilty of a lack of diversity, and Mr. Rock was deputized to carry out the sentence.
A look at the films, actors and production teams who won at the 88th Academy Awards.
The newspaper drama about the Catholic Church cover-up of sexual abuse by priests snatched top honors over “The Revenant,” considered the favorite by many.
This is it: the red carpet to end all red carpets (until the Tonys, that is).
How “Spotlight” broke the rules, why predictions went astray, and what the diversity debate means for next year.
The musician’s private trove, which had been little more than a rumor, has been acquired for an estimated $15 million to $20 million.
Lingo of the 1920s is back on Broadway. Test your knowledge, with help from Forest Whitaker.
The show, which returned from its winter hiatus on Monday night, remains as fast-paced and preposterous and addictive as ever.
Jimmy McGill has a permanent address in the realm of respectability but remains ready for piecework in the netherworld.
As “Billions” heads into the second half of its first season, viewers should just embrace the show’s lusty delirium.
Richie has seen “Enter the Dragon” one too many times.
Things calmed down in a rebuilding Alexandria but heated up in other ways.
Among tonight’s highlights are Mary’s impending nuptials, Edith’s thwarted romance, and a Mary-Edith showdown.
March 3, 2016
March 3, 2016
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