New York Times

David Greenspan has been rehearsing his solo take on the epic “Strange Interlude” for four years. Now it’s show time.

An honest obituary for a wicked American.

Japan has spent billions on an underground system to control water around the capital, but some fear that the city is vulnerable as global warming brings more extreme weather.

Visiting under the H-2A program, which brings temporary agricultural labor to the U.S., Jamaicans have worked in New York orchards since World War II.

A definitive revival of the musical “Merrily We Roll Along” and a new play about Andy Warhol and Truman Capote dissect the discontents of celebrity.

East (minus 3) meets West at the Guggenheim, in what Holland Cotter calls a “powerful, unmissable event” about a world we are still getting to know.

A legal fight over the boots irritates Australians, including the prime minister, who say too many of their famous names are taken by others.

Officials are facing pressure to decide whether to charge the man with sparse evidence or hold him in indefinite wartime detention, which the military has not done since 2008.

The music director of the Royal Opera in London, Mr. Pappano is coming to New York with his Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

The actor reveals why he and his character are done with isolation, some of his own paranoia, and the secret to playing Freddie Mercury.

Security officers at Las Vegas casinos are better trained and led than stereotypical “rent-a-cops,” experts say, but many are unarmed and rarely contend with serious criminal violence.

Some mass murderers proclaim what led them to kill. But the clues left behind by Steven Paddock have led only to more questions.

With the N.C.A.A. slow to embrace video gaming on college campuses, opportunistic organizations are racing to fill the void.

The president seems likely to kick decisions about Iran’s nuclear program over to Congress. He must do much more to stop Iranian aggression.

As long as we fetishize race, we’re guaranteed to be trapped by it.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

The footwear designer is now in charge of women’s wear, too — even though he has not made clothes in his professional career.

Friday: A Giants fan warms to the Dodgers, California becomes a sanctuary state, and sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Wisconsin Republicans used algorithms to draw themselves a bulletproof electoral map.

The show that epitomized 1980s excess has been updated for the 21st century, with more racial and sexual diversity but still plenty of camp and vamp.