Review | The zany ‘Dogman’ is like ‘Joker’ with dogs — and drag

Review | The zany ‘Dogman’ is like ‘Joker’ with dogs — and drag

StarSolidStarSolidStarOutlineStarOutline(2 stars) For all that the chameleonic Caleb Landry Jones is doing in Luc Besson’s zany genre-blender “Dogman” — reciting Shakespeare to his dozens of very, very good doggos, commanding them to pull off “Bling Ring”-like jewel heists, delivering a rapturous performance in full Édith Piaf drag down to the chanteuse’s pencil brows and feverish … Read more

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

1 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim as he flees from enslavement. 2 THE WOMEN (St. Martin’s, $30). By Kristin Hannah. An Army nurse in Vietnam treats soldiers wounded in combat but struggles to find support when she returns home. … Read more

Perspective | Is Young Thug on trial for using his imagination?

Perspective | Is Young Thug on trial for using his imagination?

Young Thug’s 2019 album “So Much Fun” opens with the century’s most innovative rap star evoking life’s ups and downs in tones that swing from warm to cool, playful to austere, intimate to mysterious. But because the man holding the microphone is one of the most idiosyncratic voices that American popular music has ever known, … Read more

Perspective | Richard Serra made us giddy and afraid

Perspective | Richard Serra made us giddy and afraid

Richard Serra made modern sculpture exciting. He did it by creating the feeling that it might fall on you. Facetious as that may sound, it’s somewhere near the heart of what made Serra, who died Tuesday at 85, both a wonderful artist and intermittently vulnerable to accusations that he was a bully. If you don’t … Read more

Rubell Museum won’t replace director after leadership shakeup

Rubell Museum won’t replace director after leadership shakeup

The Rubell Museum D.C. has parted ways with its inaugural director, Caitlin Berry, a local curator and gallerist who joined the museum ahead of its opening in October 2022. For the time being, the museum — a satellite of the Miami institution founded by contemporary art collectors Don and Mera Rubell — says that it … Read more

Matthew Broderick among stars coming to Shakespeare Theatre next season

Matthew Broderick among stars coming to Shakespeare Theatre next season

Matthew Broderick will headline a 2024-25 season at Shakespeare Theatre Company that will also feature “Downton Abbey” star Hugh Bonneville, “Black Panther” actor John Kani and Tony nominees Alex Brightman and Patrick Page, the Washington arts institution is announcing Tuesday. Broderick, the two-time Tony winner who came to fame with the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s … Read more