“Now I get to watch Junior, for the first time, meet and match his sister in such a beautiful way,” said the director Saheem Ali, who has known the Nyong’o family for decades.

George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow in the stage production of “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The play, about CBS and political pressure in the 1950s, is running as the network faces it again.

When you see the men on the subway or hurrying down a Midtown street, they look like average busy New Yorkers. Onstage, it’s clear they are stars.

Shawn Lesniak and Alex Clayton of the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the premiere of Lauren Lovette’s “Echo.”

Jonathan Clark, left, an archaeologist, and Tim FitzHigham, the creative director of St. George’s Guildhall, with recently discovered flooring that they say dates to between 1417 and 1430.

The author Jon Fosse in Frekhaug, Norway, on Thursday. He had been preparing himself for “the last 10 years that this could happen,” he said of receiving the prize.