How a breakout star of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Leftovers” approaches playing scary characters.

Fashion is powerful. It can be used as a political tool. It can be a statement about identity. It can also be healing. In Afghanistan, it is all of that and more.

New York Times journalist and former Marine infantry officer C.J. Chivers shows the realities of war through the lens of six combatants.

How Helen Hayes promoted a style of performance that still defines American acting today.

How a 1961 comedy routine still holds up today.

How do you write a hit musical number? And then do it again? And again?

How Marvin Hamlisch came up with the score for “The Sting.”

How the hilariously profane comedian inspired a young girl from the Bronx.

Three people who participated in the viral #CrazyRichAsiansCasting campaign earned their first ever parts in a big motion picture. Here’s why director Jon M. Chu thought it was necessary to scour the globe for Asian actors for “Crazy Rich Asians.”

Across America, millions of high school kids take Advanced Placement classes every year to prep for an exam that could get them college credit. In May, the nonprofit company that runs AP decided to change its world history class, to skip pre-colonial history. In this political climate, that was especially controversial.