What’s happening this season in art, theatre, TV, music, dance, and movies.
Broadway sheds its summer lassitude with a season of starry double acts: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow cohabitate in Jen Silverman’s “The Roommate” (Booth; starting previews Aug. 29); Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal” stars Robert Downey, Jr., and his “metahuman digital likeness” (Vivian Beaumont; Sept. 5); Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher swoon in Delia Ephron’s romance “Left on Tenth” (James Earl Jones; Sept. 26); Helen J. Shen and Darren Criss play love-struck robots in the musical “Maybe Happy Ending” (Belasco; Oct. 16); and, in David Henry Hwang’s Obie-winning “Yellow Face” (Todd Haimes; Sept. 13), Daniel Dae Kim stars as the playwright’s own conflicted doppelgänger.