Entertainment Columns

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

McConaughey transformed in ‘Buyers Club’

Matthew McConaughey punctuates a long line of terrific performances with his best so far in ‘Dallas Buyers Club.’

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

Saoirse Ronan centers an otherwise drab ‘How I Live Now’

Saoirse Ronan shines in an otherwise drab teen wartime romance ‘How I Live Now,’ adapted from the novel.

Going Out Guide

Watch online: ‘Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive,’ ‘Side by Side,’ ‘Sal’

This week: an entertaining stand-up set from Aziz Ansari, an engrossing documentary about film technology and a Sal Mineo biopic.

The Style Blog

Chris Richards

CMA Awards: Pondering the future of country music on the red carpet

The conversation rarely gets deep on the red carpet, but as the stars strolled past at the 47th CMA Awards we did our best to ask about the state of country music.

Chris Richards

Chris Richards

Boys made the noise but didn’t drown out country music’s new star

Kacey Musgraves’s quiet coup at the CMAs may signal rumblings of a regime change in country music.

Chris Richards

Chris Richards

Will anybody hear Brandy Clark’s brilliant album?

Country songwriter’s debut is a stunner, but doesn’t fit into the genre’s neatly-defined boundaries

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

JFK anniversary on TV: A nation stuck in a freeze frame

REVIEW | Why do we keep reliving Nov. 22, 1963, in an onslaught of stale 50th-anniversary shows?

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever

Post TV critic Hank Stuever discusses the good, bad and so-bad-its-good of TV.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever

Post TV critic Hank Stuever discusses the good, bad and so-bad-its-good of TV.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

A culture where cars do the driving

An exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the extraordinary modern history of Los Angeles.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Works seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate’ electrify art world

Trove of missing and looted art, hoarded for decades in a Munich apartment, is a collector’s dream.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Critic vs. artist: A conversation about ‘Latino art’

The Post’s Philip Kennicott and digital artist Alex Rivera discuss what “Latino art” means today.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Michael Fabiano, a tenor with a voice that sizzles

Michael Fabiano, 29, is on track to be a young Marlon Brando-style star of the opera world.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

NSO’s fine tribute to Benjamin Britten

Conductor John Storgards leads strings with exuberant vitality.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Washington Chorus does credit to Britten centenary

Fans of Britten’s “War Requiem” heard a strong performance by the Washington Chorus on Sunday night.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

The TV Column: Alec Baldwin’s puzzling Nat Geo Channel gig

The actor and animal rights supporter will narrate documentaries about, among other things, bear-hunting.

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Emmy and Tony can’t seem to get enough of Neil Patrick Harris

Actor will host the Emmy Awards for the second time this year after hosting the Tonys for the fourth time

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Animal Planet nets biggest audience with ‘Mermaids’

TV COLUMN | “New Evidence” “documentary” follows last year’s “Mermaids: The Body Found.”

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

A ballet program that’s annual frustration

REVIEW | The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, as always, is so close, but ultimately frustrating.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

‘Play/Pause’: Lovely dance, but ultimately disappointing

Susan Marshall’s interesting new work, at the Terrace Theater, ends up seeming self-important, overworked.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at Kennedy Center

Troupe keep audience constantly engaged, surprised and inquisitive through richly textured performance.