Elisabeth Vincentelli

Belarus Free Theater’s “KS6: Small Forward” and three other shows are reminders that there are many ways to portray conflicts and confrontations onstage.

In this month’s picks, time loops, aliens and ecological collapse.

The French absurdist director Quentin Dupieux did not make a biopic of Salvador Dalí — he adopted the Surrealist painter’s approach to deliver a particularly loopy tale.

Inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 film, “Showgirl” considers what it means to be an actress who gets naked.

Egyptians stand up to their government in a play that excels in its design but rings hollow when its subtext and character development are scrutinized.

Test your knowledge, for never was a quiz of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Elisabeth Vincentelli The New York Times Company

The average price of a single-day lift ticket at a destination ski resort in the U.S. is $250, but there are plenty of smaller areas where getting on the slopes is much cheaper.

Every year, there seems to be a grim competition as to which North American mountain resorts will have the highest daily rate for a lift ticket: It's scary times when $250 is the new average at marquee destinations.

Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.