Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Written by her son, Joe Anders, the actress revealed that she only planned to star and produce the film. When she was also offered the opportunity to direct the feature, Winslet said that her initial ...

After returning to the United States and finishing college, Dobson joined the Peace Corps and moved to Chile for a little more than a year. Afterward, he taught in Michigan for a year before moving to ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Rita Gunther McGrath (@rgmcgrath) is an academic director in executive education at Columbia Business School and author of “Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Steve Cropper was never a household name the way Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are, but he was the guitar hero’s guitar hero. With an instantly identifiable tone, his guitar could sing (the “Play it, ...

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Composer Stephen Schwartz spoke with NBC News’ Rebecca Keegan about the new songs in the movie “Wicked: For Good.” Schwartz explains the political themes in the songs and the musical’s storyline, ...

As moviegoers return to theaters to see “Wicked: For Good,” the sequel to the 2024 Broadway adaptation about an unlikely friendship between two witches, they may be surprised by the second installment ...

Before moving on to the future, anyway, much of our conversation focused on just how much the songs of “Wicked” — the historical song score, but especially the two new ones he wrote for Cynthia Erivo ...

In a conversation with Variety after the new film came out of the gate with a $147 million opening weekend at the domestic box office (and $223 million globally), Schwartz said that he is still ...