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A puzzle with a few clues loose.

The comedian gets vulnerable in "Night Thoughts," his first standup special in twelve years. But the real star of the show might be his elderly cat.

Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm.

June Squibb sparkles opposite Cynthia Nixon in a futuristic drama, and Michelle Williams loses her way in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winner.

Fifty years after his death, the work of the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist still appears in every issue.

Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience.

Despite our best efforts, we were going to be, in the end, two more thirtysomethings from Brooklyn getting married in the Hudson Valley.

Bradley Cooper's latest film, about separated spouses played by Laura Dern and Will Arnett, is scrappy but soul-nourishing.

Also: Murray Hill's holiday variety show, Kara Young and Nicholas Braun in "Gruesome Playground Injuries," James L. Brooks's anti-romantic comedy "Ella McCay," and more.

The artist was shunned by the art world for being too vulgar. Her new show embraces the female body, with muses like Lizzo, Padma Lakshmi, and Jane Fonda.