1. Listen to The Tortured Poets Department
Republic Records, April 19.
Since chasing the 2022 release of her tenth album, Midnights, with the Eras tour and film, rerecordings of back-catalogue highlights Speak Now and 1989, and a whirlwind romance with Super Bowl–winning tight end Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift advances a never-ending rollout with album No. 11, which features Post Malone and Florence + the Machine. craig jenkins
Prime Video, April 11.
Creative partners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy put on their executive-producer hats for this adaptation of the popular retro-futurist video game, which imagines an alternate Earth transformed by nuclear power and stars Ella Purnell as a woman who emerges from the underground to explore a postapocalyptic U.S. Also, Walton Goggins plays a gunslinging ghoul.
Amid big commercial Broadway openings, it’s worth seeing the return of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf ’s landmark journey through time and gender, directed by Will Davis and starring the ever-puckish Taylor Mac.
HBO, April 14.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s tale of a South Vietnamese captain who is secretly spying for the North Vietnamese gets the limited-series treatment courtesy of co-showrunners Don Mckellar and lauded filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who directs multiple episodes. Hoa Xuande (Cowboy Bebop) plays the unnamed captain; co-stars include Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh. jen chaney
This 81-year-old sculptor, who emerged in the 1970s something of a star, has quietly been making her work for years. At this super-fun gallery, she installs architectural models, one perched on what looks like a boulder. Dennis makes us feel as if we have landed on Mars and are seeing a redux of our own earthlike habitation imbued with pathos, loneliness, and uncanny architecture.
FIAF Florence Gould Hall Theater, April 23.
Justine Triet’s recent Oscar win has prompted the Alliance Française to put together a retrospective of the writer-director’s work. Among the screenings is one for 2019’s Sibyl—a sly film about harvesting from real life to write fiction that stars Virginie Efira as a psychotherapist and Adèle