‘Nice Work if You Can Get It’ Review: Between Stars

‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ Review: Authoritative and Accessible

Windsor gets a late-1800s update in this warmly genial staging of Shakespeare.

‘An Iliad’ and ‘The Island’ Reviews: The Smell of Blood and Bronze

In Wisconsin, a moving monodrama using Homer’s epic poem and thespian excursions inside a South African prison.

‘Mr. Robinson’ Review: Hide It From the Kids

In NBC’s new sitcom, Craig Robinson and a funny cast hit a few highs and some funky lows.

‘Strike Back’ Review: Got Nukes? Kill You

In the final season of the Cinemax thriller, the good guys battle crazed North Koreans, Russians and Yakuza.

This Recording Could Have Changed the Way We Think About Broadway

Harry Nilsson’s cut of Sondheim’s “Marry Me a Little” had the chance to shape the way audiences thought of musical comedy—if it hadn’t been hidden away.

A Poet’s Apocalyptic Vision

‘The Second Coming’ outlines William Butler Yeats’s fearful vision of the future based on the moral anarchy of the present.

A Wine Jug That’s Fit for a Roman Feast or a Brooklyn Banquet

A complicated manufacturing process gives birth to the elegant, timeless design of a 2,000-year-old jug, which is also the earliest example of a glassmaker signing his work.

An 18th-Century Travelogue Offers Glimpses of Modernity in the Mediterranean

Patrick Brydone’s ‘A Tour Through Sicily and Malta’ is a travelogue from the past that’s fit for the present.

A Sleeper Awakened With Color

Frederic Leighton’s “Flaming June” is on loan to the Frick Collection in New York for the next three months.

At Waterloo, Seeking Glory at the Margins

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” is a Napoleonic novel brimming with political as well as psychological insight.

A Different Sort of Criminal Code

George V. Higgins’s ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ looks at the ways bad men make peace with their misdeeds.

‘Tangerine’ Review: Beyond the Margins

Sean Baker’s film shot entirely on an iPhone follows a pair of black transgender prostitutes on Christmas Eve in Hollywood.

‘Cartel Land’ Review: Blurring the Line Between Hero and Villain

Matthew Heineman’s documentary takes a bleak but sharp-eyed view of efforts to combat Mexico’s drug cartels on both sides of the border.

‘Minions’ Review: More About Millions

The begoggled, capsule-shaped, banana-colored scamps who stole the show in two installments of the popular “Despicable Me” get their own movie.

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‘Magic Mike XXL’ Review: Hoping Buff is Enough

Channing Tatum returns in this romp about the Kings of Tampa, a troupe of male strippers on one last road trip.

‘Amy’ Review: An Artist at War With Herself

Asif Kapadia’s documentary is a moving look at the talented and troubled Amy Winehouse.

‘Tea Time’ Review: Bonds of Friendship

For the past 60 years five women have sustained their monthly ritual of taking tea together.

‘The Bomb’ Review: The Weapon That Ended the War

Seventy years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at the creation of the world’s most destructive weapon.

‘Tut’ Review: Not So Good To Be Pharaoh

Spike’s miniseries about Egypt’s famous pharaoh has great hats, dancing girls, some gore, and a saggy script.

‘White People’ Review: Let’s Talk About Race, or Not

MTV’s ‘White People’ tries to get young Caucasians to see themselves as others see them but ends up in a muddle.

In the Dark About New York’s 1977 ‘Blackout’

A PBS documentary provides fashionable rationalizations for the looting that erupted during the 1977 New York City blackout.

‘Married’ Review: To Have and To Hold and To Annoy

Nat Faxon and Judy Greer’s contentious but entertaining union endures in the second season of this FX show.

‘Real Angry Birds’ Review

In this stunning Nat Geo WILD program, alluring avians cope with the demands of survival.

‘Vera’ Review: Not Your Usual British Detective

One appeal of this middle-aged copper with a tart tongue is that we know so little about her.

‘The Spoils Before Dying’ Review: High Dive Into the Wacky Pool

IFC’s miniseries hilariously parodies cinema noir and every bad art film you ever saw.

‘Out in the Night’ Review: Hot-Button Issues

Revisiting a late-night altercation between seven lesbians and a man who accosted them outside a Greenwich Village movie house.

‘The Winter’s Tale’ Review: Staying Festive

At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Davis McCallum stages a youthful, fresh and lucid version of one of the Bard’s more problematic plays.

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Review: Let Them See You Sweat

Tennessee Williams’s classic gets an update to the ’60s in William Brown’s solid staging.

‘The Guardsman’ Review: All the World’s a Stage

When an actor suspects his wife of cheating, he disguises himself as a dashing guardsman and tests her fidelity.

‘Amazing Grace’ Review: How Sweet the Set

A high-budget production looks at John Newton, the British slave trader turned abolitionist who wrote the words to the iconic hymn.

George Bernard Shaw Gets a Love Fest in Canada

At the Shaw Festival, ‘The Twelve-Pound Look,’ ‘Sweet Charity’ and ‘You Never Can Tell’ tackle romantic relationships of all kinds.

‘The Weir’ Review: Peaty Profundity

The Irish Repertory Theatre remounts the production that Terry Teachout calls ‘a profound meditation on the twin themes of loneliness and community.’

Putting the Endearing Zaniness of Community Theater On Stage

When a 14-year-old boy wanders into a small-town theater in Douglas Carter Beane’s autobiographical comedy, the players leap at the opportunity to make the teenager one of their own.

A Play That Lets You Pick the Ending

Peterborough Players stages ‘A Garden Fête,’ letting audiences vote on what ending they’d like to see in this section of the multipart farce ‘Intimate Exchanges.’

Hollywood’s First Great Art Collector

Edward G. Robinson, who had roles in ‘Little Caesar’ and ‘Double Indemnity,’ called his trove ‘one of the greatest collections of French Impressionist art ever assembled by an American.’

Tom Stoppard Thinks You’re Dumb

Is the award-winning playwright a snob, or are audiences less intelligent than they used to be?

Film Music’s Forgotten Man

Roy Webb is still waiting for his close-up.

Strike Up the (Pit) Band

The rise, fall and temporary comeback of the Broadway overture.

A Book That Reminds You How Unimportant You Really Are

George Grossmith’s sad little comic masterpiece, ‘The Diary of a Nobody,’ reminds readers of a harsh truth: Most of us, no matter how well we may think of ourselves, are unimportant to the rest of the world.

Are All Art Collectors a Little Bit Crazy?

The eccentricities of art collectors are well documented, but what makes them go to such great lengths to indulge their obsession?

Trying To Get on Broadway? Don’t Write a Play

Theater might not be dead, but Broadway is proving less and less open to staging new plays.