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The actress is touring a one-woman show about how animals express themselves. She's also getting Oscar buzz for "Conclave," a film in which she hardly speaks.

A food critic's favorite menu items from a year of dining out.

In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne's iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a famously monstrous stage mother.

The relationship at the heart of a new erotic thriller, starring Nicole Kidman, doesn't explode power struggles; it exists within them.

In his latest film, the director Brady Corbet depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United States after surviving Buchenwald.

Also: A private-school meltdown in "Eureka Day," jam rock comes to town, Richard Brody reviews "Babygirl" and "A Complete Unknown," and more.

This year's standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

Timothée Chalamet's performance is a remarkable act of mimicry that reveals little of the real Bob Dylan.

The Islamic Republic is weaker--on multiple fronts--than it's been in nearly half a century.

With her writing for The New Yorker, Croce put dance criticism and dance itself on the cultural map.