War and Peace

Rachel Chavkin, Broadway Bolide

Director Rachel Chavkin is riding a comet to Broadway—surely the slowest-moving comet ever to streak across the stratosphere. On November 14—four years, one month and two days after it world-premiered at Off Broadway’s tiny-but-mighty Ars Nova—her Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will reach the Imperial Theater, former home of Les Miserables and now reconfigured into Imperial Russia for the occasion.

By Harry Haun

Lily James Explains Why ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Needed Zombies

The young star talks fitness, sword fighting and female empowerment in her role as Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet.

By Richard Aldhous

Gunning for a Good Idea: Crown Heights’ Bedford Union Armory Puts Out an RFP

The community has a lot of ideas about what it would like to see the 138,000-square foot Bedford Union Armory

By Kim Velsey

Ctrl-F Error Defaces Classic Work of Literature

By Kat Stoeffel

Russians Still Brooding Over Translations

By Gillian Reagan

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