Arts Agenda: Top Events for the Week of June 8

Film

• “How to Train Your Dragon” (June 13): Studios continue to show that they’re fans of live-action remakes (see last month’s “Lilo & Stitch” ) even if audiences don’t always feel the same way (see spring’s “Snow White” ). The latest in the trend is Dean DeBlois’s new version of the 2010 DreamWorks film about a lonely boy who befriends a fearsome-looking but kindly beast.

• “Materialists” (June 13): Following up her critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated drama “Past Lives,” director Celine Song turns to more populist fare with a rom-com about the complications among a matchmaker, an ideal man and her ex, which stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.

• “The Unholy Trinity” (June 13): Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson and Brandon Lessard are in the saddle for this western about an 1870s Montana town thrown into chaos by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

• “Tatami” (June 13): A female Iranian judo fighter travels to the world championships and receives a threat from the regime back home in Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s sports drama.

• “Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible” (June 13): The Scottish rock band, best known for its ’80s hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” gets the feature-length documentary treatment courtesy of Joss Crowley.

TV

• “Art Detectives” (Acorn TV, June 9): This crime series follows Detective Inspector Mick Palmer (Stephen Moyer) and Detective Constable Shazia Malik (Nina Singh) as they investigate activity including forgery, fraud, trafficking and murder. Our critic commends its verisimilitude, saying Mr. Moyer “critiques a phony Vermeer in surprisingly astute fashion for a TV crime series.”

• “Families Like Ours” (Netflix, June 10): In the first TV series from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (an Oscar nominee for “Another Round”), rising water levels lead to an evacuation of Denmark, forcing a young girl to choose between her divorced parents and the boy she loves.

• “Titan: The OceanGate Disaster” (Netflix, June 11): A documentary dives deeper into the psyche of CEO Stockton Rush and the tragic submersible trip of June 2023. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Monroe, it focuses on the years preceding the fatal oceanic expedition.

• “Best Wishes to All” (Shudder, June 13): Director Yûta Shimotsu’s movie is about a young woman who visits her grandparents and discovers a chilling secret.

• “Echo Valley” (Apple TV+, June 13): In this new film by British director Michael Pearce, Julianne Moore plays mother to a distressed Sydney Sweeney, who shows up covered in another person’s blood.

Theater

• “Angry Alan” (Studio Seaview, New York, May 23-Aug. 3): John Krasinski is back off-Broadway in this dark comedy by Penelope Skinner. The star plays Roger, a divorced man desperate for confidence and connection in the digital age.

• “Machinal” (New York City Center, New York, June 7-July 3): In the late 1920s, Ruth Snyder was found guilty of murdering her husband and executed in the electric chair. Inspired by Snyder’s story, Sophie Treadwell wrote this play in 1928 to probe questions of passion, conformity and desire, which are further examined by director Amy Marie Seidel in her reimagining of the text.

• “Call Me Izzy” (Studio 54, New York, June 12-Aug. 17): Written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine, this drama stars six-time Emmy Award winner Jean Smart as a determined woman in rural Louisiana with a powerful secret.

• “Hugh Jackman: From New York With Love” (Radio City Music Hall, New York, June 20-Oct. 4): The actor and singer resumes his live concert series, reprising songs from some of his most iconic screen and stage productions, including “The Greatest Showman” and “The Boy From Oz.” Our critic praised “Mr. Jackman’s unusual warmth and generosity as a performer, on display throughout the show.”

Music

• Buscabulla, “Se Amaba Así” (June 13): The Puerto Rican duo of Luis Del Valle and Raquel Berrios returns with its sophomore album, an introspective pop record influenced by past and present Latin music.

• Dierks Bentley, “Broken Branches” (June 13): The singer of “Drunk on a Plane” and “Somewhere on a Beach” joins forces with Country Music Hall of Famer John Anderson, Miranda Lambert and Riley Green on his 11th studio album.

• Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, “Talkin to the Trees” (June 13): The debut LP from the new group (formed by Neil Young and comprising guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony LoGerfo and keyboardist Spooner Oldham) includes 10 original rock ’n’ roll tracks.

• Van Morrison, “Remembering Now” (June 13): A new studio album from the Grammy Award-winning artist offers a blend of blues, jazz and country.

Opera

• “Idomeneo” (War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, June 14-25): Mozart’s opera seria, which had its premiere when he was only 25 years old and is set in the wake of the Trojan War, forces a shipwrecked king to choose between his people and his son. Lindy Hume’s production is conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim.

Exhibitions

• “Blacklisted: An American Story” (The New York Historical, June 13-Oct. 19): Hollywood’s Red Scare saw one of the most high-profile collisions in U.S. history of the worlds of art and politics. Bringing together photographs, films and artifacts, this show tells the story of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the “Hollywood 10” who were fined and jailed due to its hearings, and the fallout that followed during a time when fear of Communism gripped the nation.

• “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California” (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California, June 8-Nov. 30): More than 100 quilts by some 80 artists go on display, offering new perspectives on the Second Great Migration and the ways it shaped—and continues to influence—the American West.

Art

• “Noah Davis” (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 8-Aug. 31): The first institutional survey of the painter, who died at just 32 years old in 2015, celebrates his incredible output during his brief life, showcasing over 50 works made from 2007 onward that highlight his wide-ranging interests, from current affairs to Egyptian cosmology.

• “Funny Business: Photography and Humor” (Phoenix Art Museum, June 14-Jan. 4, 2026): Art can be deadly serious, but it can also be filled with humor. This show explores the lighter side of creativity through 70 photographs from the past century, revealing how artists—including John Baldessari, Garry Winogrand and others—have used comedy to delight, poke fun and make serious messages more palatable.

• “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” (Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 10-Oct. 1): The 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut killed hundreds of people and did untold damage to property ranging from countless buildings to a masterwork by Artemisia Gentileschi, the celebrated 17th-century Italian artist. “Hercules and Omphale” (c. 1635-37) was sent to the Getty for conservation and repair, and the results of that work now go on view alongside other paintings by Gentileschi that show her penchant for portraying strong women at a time when doing so was particularly controversial.

• “Disco: Vivian Suter” (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 12-Sept. 7): The Argentine-Swiss painter, who now lives and works in Panajachel, Guatemala, receives her largest-ever retrospective with an exhibition that brings together roughly 500 paintings she’s created in the past decade whose colorful, gestural nature draws from the artist’s tropical surroundings.

• “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945” (The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 14-Sept. 14): This show of nearly 100 works by more than two-dozen artists in media ranging from stained glass to embroidery looks at a pivotal period in British feminist history and the way women artists asserted both their creativity and their progressive causes.

• “Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons” (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, June 10-Oct. 19): The historic institution, which was designed by John Soane and specializes in Old Masters, hosts the first contemporary solo show in its main exhibition space: a collection of pieces by the British abstract artist created in the past seven years and a new body of work that includes both intimate and large-scale paintings.

Videogames

• “Dune: Awakening” (PC, June 10): Players venture into the unforgiving terrain of Arrakis in this survival game, set in an alternate timeline in which Paul Atreides never existed, and navigate the planet and a conflict between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, all while serving as undercover agents of the Bene Gesserit. The game will be released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S sometime in the future.

Last Call

• “El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo” (Prado Museum, Madrid, through June 15): A major exhibition reunites all but one of the canvases El Greco painted for the Spanish church where he was buried. In the words of our critic, “Seeing these works together under one roof for the first time in nearly 200 years feels momentous—and the cumulative effect of viewing them in a single exhibition is stunning.”

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