Stephen Humphries

Greenwich Village in the ’60s attracted musicians like Joan Baez. Novelist Sarah Seltzer (“The Singer Sisters”) and music journalist David Browne (“Talkin’ Greenwich Village”) chat about the Village’s enduring appeal.

Don’t Tell Comedy’s success reflects the remarkable boom of live comedy since the pandemic. Held on boats or in boxing gyms, the pop-up shows sell out to audiences that don’t know whom they’re seeing – or where they’re going.

“Music City,” which opened off-Broadway this month, is the latest show to embrace the country genre. Can Nashville music make it in New York?

Fairy tales often present characters as either good or bad. “Wicked” author Gregory Maguire asks readers to let go of binary thinking as they consider morality.

Alice Loxton doesn’t believe history should be boring or academic. As “History Alice,” she connects with millions of people on social media, and her second book, “Eighteen,” already reached No. 1 in the U.K.

One in 6 Americans now feels lonely all or most of the time, a new Pew survey finds. And young people report feeling the most isolated and pessimistic.

How do you calibrate an Oscars ceremony after a natural disaster? Other award shows are balancing the glitz with compassion – which is resonating at a time when Los Angeles is rebuilding.

Is “Severance,” about workplace drudgery, the greatest exploration of work-life imbalance ever filmed?

Rebels with a robot: ‘Rule Breakers’ celebrates Afghan girls who dared to dream

Everyone has read about the protests and encampments on campuses in response to the war in Gaza. What hasn’t gotten headlines are the more than 100 universities that have launched civility initiatives in their wake.