n 1968, ABC paired two pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum — William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal — for a cut-throat intellectual faceoff. The documentary Best of Enemies explores this media milestone. Late in a series of bruising televised debates on ABC tied to the momentous Repu

Jupiter has a lot going on, with massive storms, intense winds, auroras, and severe temperature and pressure extremes. The James Webb Space Telescope of NASA has now taken fresh images of the planet. Webb's Jupiter observations will provide scientists with much more information about Jupiter's inner...

How the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, will look once completed. n 1882, construction of Sagrada Família started under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering sty

Performance of "The Circle of Life" that opened the 2008 Tony Awards, which celebrated the show' 10th year on Broadway. Now, the Lion King is Making a Difference with some changes to the broadway show for one night, Sunday October 2, 2011, for a very special audience: as part of the Autism The...

In the premiere of our ReForm series, we explore the frontier of the 3D face- and body scanning technology used to create digital doubles for films, video games, and holograms. We meet some of the scanned humans, their avatars, and get to understand the challenges the Institute For Creative Technolo...

Playbill assembled a cast of dancers to recreate the original choreography of iconic numbers from A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Sweet Charity, 42nd Street, and more. reat choreographic moments can be as recognizable as chandeliers crashing, helicopters on stage, or witches flying, they inform the ...

World Ballet Day 2022 returns for its ninth year, bringing together a host of the world’s leading companies for a packed day of dance. Over the course of the day, rehearsals, discussions and classes will be streamed for free across six continents, offering unique behind-the-scenes glimpses of ball

The acoustics in the home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center have always been problematic. Now, after a $550 million redesign, the refurbished David Geffen Hall has been praised in advance of its opening this weekend. Correspondent David Pogue goes inside the upgrade of a world-class ven...

Lying in a hospital bed having found out he was paralysed Chris Palmer thought about how he never would be able to walk his daughter down the aisle on her wedding day. But on saturday (21/5), almost four years later, Mr Palmer has done just that. With the help of a £90,000 robotic device, the 55-yea

Long before shows like Glee and Modern Family, sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s were slowly breaking ground and bringing gay visibility to American television programming.Writer Matt Baume has been combing through sitcoms to figure out when homosexuals stopped being a scary threat and started becomin