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Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

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Featuring early contenders for best picture, big-name memoirs and biographies, and the season’s most exciting live shows

By Erin Hershberg, Anthony Milton, Leah Rumack, Stéphanie Verge and Charlie Wagner-Chazalon

| September 19, 2025

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Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

Hilariously early best picture predictions, the Safdie brothers’ solo films, multiple star turns for Paul Mescal and more

Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

Including an ode to the workplace sitcom, familiar faces renewed for new seasons and hotly anticipated pilots

Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

Including a parade of pre-Y2K artists making major comebacks, plus the best and biggest concerts coming to town

Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

Including a meticulously staged photograph of a nightclub lineup, a globe-spanning contemporary art convention, a museum exhibition on the loveable side of sharks and more

Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

A baker’s dozen of the fall’s biggest memoirs and biographies, plus five of the hottest Canadian reads for increasingly frigid nights in

Best of Fall: A sneak peek at the season’s buzziest debuts on stage, screen and page

Including a diva on a mission, a play about petty oligarchs and family dysfunction, and more sneak peeks at the season’s best opera, theatre and dance

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