EditorialFrom left: Chris Sullivan, Scott Foley and Katie Finneran in “The Thanksgiving Play” at the Helen Hayes Theater in Manhattan, March 24, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialTarra Conner Jones, left, as Nell Gibbs, with Liz Lark Brown, who plays all the white mothers in Michael R. Jackson’s new musical, “White Girl in Danger,” at the Tony Kiser Theater in New York, March 30, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialThe making of a short film for Larissa FastHorse’s play “The Thanksgiving Play,” at St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf in New York, Feb. 5, 2023. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)
EditorialA scene from Michael R. Jackson’s new musical satire, “White Girl in Danger,” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater in New York, March 30, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialA scene from Michael R. Jackson’s new musical satire, “White Girl in Danger,” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater in New York, March 30, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Liz Lark Brown, Latoya Edwards and NaTasha Yvette Williams in Michael R. Jackson's "White Girl in Danger" at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 21, 2021. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialSix long-running podcasts, ranging from satire to movie analysis to deliberately banal gossip, all provide some escapism if all you really want to do is avoid the news cycle for a little bit. (Irene Rinaldi/The New York Times)
EditorialW. Tr? Davis, left, and Tyler Fauntleroy in a scene from ?Tambo and Bones? at Playwrights Horizons in New York, Jan. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Chuck Cooper as Sheldon Forrester, LaChanze as Wiletta Mayer, Danielle Campbell as Judy Sears and Michael Zegen as Al Manners in the play “Trouble In Mind,” in New York, Oct. 28, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialJulie Salamon, author of the 1991 book ?The Devil?s Candy,? an account of the making of the movie ?The Bonfire of the Vanities,? famously a big budget box-office bomb, at her home in Manhattan, Sept. 1, 2021. (Winnie Au/The New York Times)