Author: Editor-in-Chief
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Bruce Blakeman wants to play ball with NYC’s team-owning titans
Bruce Blakeman talks about ballclubs the way other politicians talk about bridges. Imagining his franchise wish list for the City and the State, and the titans and developers who would have to pay for it.
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This Weekend, New York Leaves the Door Open
Open House New York Weekend runs through Sunday, unlocking more than 300 sites from Roy Lichtenstein’s old studio to a Con Edison power plant. A rare weekend when the city’s gatekeepers stand aside.
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A Murdoch Buys New York, Again
Vanity Fair’s profile of James and Kathryn Murdoch, the new owners of New York magazine, offers a hymn to long-form journalism, a careful silence about Rupert and one memorable line about Nevada. What it means for the city’s conversation.
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Bill Irwin Plays Sick, and Molière Gets the Last Laugh
Roundabout’s The Imaginary Invalid, adapted by and starring Bill Irwin, with Rachel Bloom in her Broadway debut, opens Oct. 22 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. A clown, a hypochondriac and a very old joke about doctors.
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‘Welcome, You Perverts’: Duncan Sheik’s Last Musical Opens in Chelsea
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, the immersive musical with a score by the late Duncan Sheik, opened Oct. 15 at the Culture Club to decidedly mixed reviews. Here is what the critics said, and what they couldn’t quite say.
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Hiddleston, Atwell and the Season’s Priciest Bickering: ‘Much Ado’ Comes to Broadway
Jamie Lloyd’s West End Much Ado About Nothing, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, begins previews at the Winter Garden on Oct. 31 for a ten-week run. It is, for better or worse, the season’s event.
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Wynton Marsalis Takes His Last Lap Around the House He Built
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2026-27 season, “Come Home,” is Wynton Marsalis’s last as artistic director, and October reads like a family reunion with a horn section. The search for his successor is still open.
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Dudamel’s First Month: Radio City, Three Premieres and a Plaque From the Governor
Gustavo Dudamel opened his New York Philharmonic tenure with Lizzo, John Adams, three world premieres and Steven Spielberg in the audience. Now the orchestra takes the show to Berlin and Vienna.
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The Least Glamorous Wellness Ritual in New York
Flu, COVID and RSV season is here. The city and state have picked their guidance, the first mRNA flu shot is on pharmacy shelves, and the most effective self-care of the fall costs most New Yorkers nothing.
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The Hardest Two Weeks of the Marathon
A record 240,000 applied and about 1 percent got in. As the 50th five-borough NYC Marathon nears, runners are tapering, the Bronx route has changed, and the city’s real wellness religion is on full display.
