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There Is No Magical Way to Overcome Fear
After being paralyzed on the set of a ‘Harry Potter’ movie, I rediscovered what fearlessness really meant.
By David Holmes
After being paralyzed on the set of a ‘Harry Potter’ movie, I rediscovered what fearlessness really meant.
By David Holmes
The event gave Broadway stars a chance to step out of their costumes and into outfits that showcased personal style.
By The Styles Desk
All of the actors who took home Tonys were first-time winners. Here’s what they had to say after their wins.
By Annie Aguiar
Spirited celebrations that included an official after-party at Lincoln Center and a gathering at the Carlyle Hotel, where revelers broke out in show tunes, continued until nearly 5 a.m.
By Nancy Coleman and Sarah Bahr
“Merrily We Roll Along” is Radcliffe’s fifth show on Broadway, but the first for which he was even nominated for a Tony Award.
By Michael Paulson
He was nominated for featured actor in a musical for his role in “Merrily We Roll Along,” his fifth show on Broadway since 2008.
By Sarah Bahr
This was the first nomination for Radcliffe, who has had five roles on Broadway since 2008.
By Michael Paulson
Times theater critics sing the praises of two shows about fraught collaborations
By Alex Barron, Lynn Levy and Diane Wong
In a new documentary, David Holmes, a stunt performer in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, recalls his life before and after a harrowing accident on set that left him paralyzed.
By Rebecca Carballo
A documentary looks at the friendship that formed during the Harry Potter movies between Daniel Radcliffe and his main stunt double, who was seriously injured in 2009.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
By Jesse Green
Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe are the heart of the tear-streaked “Merrily We Roll Along” Broadway revival.
By Ben Brantley
The “Harry Potter” star received his first Emmy nomination on Wednesday, for “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.” “A parody of biopics is the only thing a Weird Al biopic could ever be,” Radcliffe said.
By Sarah Bahr
Four editors and one critic share their wish lists for best picture, best actress and best actor.
By Stephanie Goodman, Mekado Murphy, Jason M. Bailey, Jason Farago and Andrew LaVallee
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Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, now starring in an Off Broadway revival, will lead the Broadway production as well.
By Michael Paulson
Maria Friedman’s rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.
By Jesse Green
Maria Friedman’s productions of the show in London and Boston were hits. Now a starry cast is preparing to open her latest staging Off Broadway.
By Ben Brantley
We break down that star-studded scene from “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” the sorta kinda true portrait of the pop star’s life, now on the Roku Channel.
By Sarah Bahr
The director Eric Appel narrates a scene from the film.
By Mekado Murphy
The director and co-writer Eric Appel narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic.
By Mekado Murphy
The playwright’s longtime TriBeCa home sold for about $5.6 million, and two other sales brought in more than $50 million each, but not in the same building.
By Vivian Marino
The parody musician makes a joke of his own life, with the help of Daniel Radcliffe, in this uproarious sham biopic.
By Amy Nicholson
For their decidedly nonfactual rock biopic, the pop-music parodist and the “Harry Potter” star found themselves on the same wavelength.
By Dave Itzkoff
Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a vamping Brad Pitt run around in a romantic adventure that you have seen before and will see again.
By Manohla Dargis
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Their movie comedy will be under close scrutiny at the box office. But they aren’t fazed and have lots to say about that Brad Pitt cameo, “Magic Mike” and “Harry Potter.”
By Kyle Buchanan
A new production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” is to be staged late this year by the nonprofit New York Theater Workshop in the East Village.
By Michael Paulson
The film, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” will begin production next month and will be available for streaming on the Roku Channel.
By Eduardo Medina
Two decades after the film’s release, Daniel Radcliffe and the director, Chris Columbus, take us inside four key scenes.
By Sarah Bahr
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch.
A slice of fandom divides itself from J.K. Rowling.
By Julia Jacobs
Miranda’s rap. Rylance’s poems. Jackman’s pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for “Turkey Lurkey Time.”
By Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Michael Paulson, Alexis Soloski, Elisabeth Vincentelli, Laura Collins-Hughes, Scott Heller and Eric Grode
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The “Harry Potter” star reads an essay about a midlife diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome.
The actor formerly known as Harry Potter continues his post-wizard evolution. (Being named as the first famous person diagnosed — not true — wasn’t part of the plan.)
By Aaron Hicklin
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A satire of people who are too online, the film takes a while to stop showing off its own virtuosity.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Compelling revivals make “Endgame” (with Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe) and “Far Away” feel more unsettlingly relevant than ever.
By Ben Brantley
What’s it like seeing your misunderstood profession onstage, with Daniel Radcliffe as a version of you?
By Jamie Fisher
When a gassy essayist and a pesky researcher are forced together by a crusading editor you get a topical comedy with a lot to prove.
By Jesse Green
Bobby Cannavale is a showy journalist, Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth. In “The Lifespan of a Fact,” their face-off takes on epic proportions.
By Amos Barshad
Any season that tells the stories of Cher, Sarah Bernhardt, Rupert Murdoch and Gloria Steinem won’t be quiet.
By Steven McElroy
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