Chat Room Interviews

When Benjamin Millepied was a teenager starting dance training in New York, he and fellow students got into ballet performances for free, but opera was another story: They had to be creative. They'd sneak into the Metropolitan Opera House during intermission, or talk their way backstage, relying on...

In writer-director Ari Aster's new film " Beau is Afraid," Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother's home. It's theatrical and depraved and perhaps best left largely unexplained, at least until audiences get...

Lewis Capaldi's first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter. Besting that with his sophomore album was daunting enough, but then he agreed to allow a Netflix documentary crew to follow him. Capaldi says, with his...

Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history, and now Public Enemy's Chuck D has committed himself to explore the artform's origins. Chuck D rounded up several rap greats — including Ice-T, Run DMC and MC Lyte — who offered their firsthand accounts ahead of this...