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Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, co-artistic directors of the LAByrinth Theater Company for more than a decade, are leaving their posts. John Gould Rubin, who was named co-artistic director and executive director two years ago, will also step down, and the three will pass leadership responsibilities for the 17-year-old company to several [...]

A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.

President Obama and his wife Michelle plan to visit New York City on Saturday and take in a Broadway show, the August Wilson play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”

The venerable heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne has acknowledged in a statement that he is suing Tony Iommi, his longtime band mate in the group Black Sabbath.

If you weren’t planning to spend the weekend standing in line to see Sam Raimi’s new horror film, “Drag Me to Hell,” but still want to give yourself a good scare, the Web site fearnet.com is offering free streams of “Evil Dead 2.”

This week: Jonathan Miles on W.P.A. food writing; Christine Muhlke on food-themed memoirs; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor said that it was investigating a complaint about “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ to make sure that it was complying with the state’s child labor laws.

Wisdom, insights and random observations from this weekend’s Arts & Leisure section.

Hallie Foote will take on several major roles in “The Orphans’ Home Cycle,” a three-part nine-play work by her father, Horton Foote, that Hartford Stage and Signature Theater Company are mounting for the 2009-10 theater season.

After many cramped and sweaty minutes at Girl Talk’s show on Thursday night, this was the best picture we could capture of Gregg Gillis. Here’s why our other attempts went wrong.

Alex Clark, the editor of the British literary magazine Granta, is resigning after less than a year in the job.

The chief minister of Maharashtra State in India said that two child stars of “Slumdog Millionaire” would be been given new apartments after their shanty homes were torn down.

A Q&A with Amy Morton, who returned to Broadway this week to play the character of Barbara Weston in “August: Osage County.”

What are your favorite moments from Jay Leno’s 17-year run on “The Tonight Show”? Will you follow him to his new prime time series in the fall?