Emily Nussbaum

Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots.

Gina Gionfriddo’s zinger-filled date-night play and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s confounding musical are cathartic catnip.

Camp has become the go-to aesthetic for Broadway musicals. These two new shows dare to be sincere.

Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

A new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy hinge on a universal anxiety: How well do you know your partner?

In “Can I Be Frank?” and “Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical,” gay fandom generates funny and moving new material.

The star of “Widow’s Bay” on the series’ emotional season finale, his formative love for Richard Burton, and the subtle power of scarfing a whole chicken onscreen.

The plays explore interpersonal rifts over Israel, but only one lets the ugliness linger.

Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce are down to clown in “Dukes,” a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.