From the pop supernova Olivia Rodrigo to a memoirist whose long-held ballet aspirations stalled at the barre, young women gave voice to their longing this year in memorable ways.
In Armando Lucas Correa’s thriller “The Silence in Her Eyes,” vision impairment only enhances a young woman’s sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
In a memoir that tries to wrest control of her story, Ms. Baldwin says she was “canceled” via online sleuths who looked for inconsistencies in her Spanish accent.
“I am a trans actor who happened to get the role. I’m not a theme. I’m a person,” actor Zoe Terakes wrote on social media. “Kuwait has banned this film due to my identity alone.”