Scarlett Johansson’s plans to portray a transgender man have sparked a backlash from many who object to cisgender actors playing trans roles.Earlier this week, Johansson ...

James Woods, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken conservatives, says his agent dropped him as a client on the Fourth of July, citing patriotism.Woods on Thursday ...

Television has long been my connection to home. White Walkers ushering in an apocalyptic winter, Cold War sleeper agents going rogue, robots running amok in ...

Follow the Sumida River southwest from Asakusa and you’ll soon reach Kuramae, an old working-class neighborhood filled with small factories, wholesale shops and temples. The ...

Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author’s untimely death, Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” is one of those ...

Love can drive you nuts. One recent illustration of how can be seen in the American TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” about a successful New York ...

It’s the title that grabs you first. Hikaru Utada’s seventh album makes a conspicuous nod to her 1999 debut, but the preternaturally mature teen of ...

After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata, 60, is now tackling her final program there before ...

It’s New York in the 1970s. The optimism of ’60s America has faded into cynicism and despair. The city is so broke that it’s almost ...

July 6-Sept. 1Rinsaku Akamatsu (1878-1953) was born in Okayama Prefecture and studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he majored in Western-style painting. ...

July 10-Sept. 17As traveling become more popular among Japanese, the custom of giving omiyage (souvenirs) has become a regular part of everyday life. This exhibition ...

July 12-Sept. 1The female form has long been a favorite subject among artists, often admired or even worshipped as an idealization of beauty. Photographers, too, ...

Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael ...

Harvey Weinstein was charged Monday with a sex crime against a third woman, as New York prosecutors continue building cases against the former Hollywood studio ...

Peter Firmin, the co-creator of the classic British children’s TV programs “Clangers,” “Bagpuss,” and “The Basil Brush Show,” has died. He was 89.Firmin’s spokesman told ...

Halfway through a year filled with new work from some of the most popular artists alive, the best-selling album is the soundtrack to a Hugh ...

Deep in the mountains of Niigata Prefecture, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is preparing its hundreds of exhibitions, events and installations — some new, some already ...

Drake’s new album, “Scorpion,” has smashed streaming recordsm, with Apple Music and Spotify both reporting unprecedented listenership in its first day.Apple Music said on Instagram ...

It has been another epic year for characters Stan Lee helped create, with “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War” earning more than $3 billion combined ...

Harlan Ellison, the prolific, pugnacious author of “A Boy and His Dog” and countless other stories that blasted society with their nightmarish, sometimes darkly humorous ...