A son of the suburbs, inspired by his parents’ adventures, takes TV back to the ’70s with “Swingtown.”

In her memoir, Bob Dylan’s former girlfriend looks back at their time in Greenwich Village in the 1960s with affection.

The Encores! presentation of “No, No, Nanette” is secondhand nostalgia, a reworking of a 1970s take on the 1920s.

A country singer, Mr. Wallace’s hits included “Primrose Lane” and “How Time Flies.”

The Cavendish Invitational Pairs, the planet’s biggest cash tournament of the year, ends on Sunday in Henderson, Nev., on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

The high-quality regional ensemble in Ohio’s capital has canceled its outdoor summer concerts and may call a halt to making music indefinitely.

Political, sociological and psychological, “Far ...” is an engrossing work of art.

Only after “Battle of Kruger” — an eight-minute African safari video — became one of the most popular videos in YouTube’s history did the television buyers come calling.

An online review of a coming Indiana Jones movie by Steven Spielberg has breached the film’s tight security.

“Discovering Rastafari!” at the Smithsonian’s Natural History museum reveals far more about Rastafarian culture than familiar symbols and the show’s modest size might suggest.

For the first time in its 34-year existence, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has begun blanketing Washington with ads in order to define itself in the public’s mind.

On Thursday at Symphony Space, American Repertory Ballet offered a pair of Twyla Tharp works, including the delicious “Sinatra Suite.”

Alan Bergman sang on Thursday at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency in a show celebrating his 50-year collaboration with his wife, Marilyn.

Based on the true story of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl in Indianapolis in 1965 who found herself subjected to horrific cruelties, “An American Crime” almost begs us to look anywhere else.

“The Fever Chart,” a well-made trilogy by Naomi Wallace, explores that cauldron that is the Middle East.

Luis Lara Malvacías’s “Reason Without Meaning” is being performed at The Kitchen.

In the Acting Company production of Orson Welles’s “Moby Dick Rehearsed,” gung-ho actors bring everything to life with no more than some crates and ladders for scenery.

In his furious satire “The Unconquered,” part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright Torben Betts shakes the daylights out of the smarmy idea of freedom.

Ms. Dundy was the author of “The Dud Avocado,” which was published in 1958 and whose heroine, a free-spirited American girl, was a forerunner to Isadora Wing and Carrie Bradshaw.

Peter Fernandez, who voiced the role of the hero in the original animated “Speed Racer” series, makes a cameo appearance in the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the show.