A TV on the Radio polymath goes solo.
Sub Pop Records, April 18.
After a push into film yielded work in everything from Marriage Story to Spider-Man: Homecoming, the musician, visual artist, and actor Tunde Adebimpe builds on the momentum of his aughts indie-rock outfit’s reunion tour with a debut solo album revitalizing wily pop smarts sorely missed during his hiatus. —Craig Jenkins

We’re back in session.
Atlantic Theater, in previews; opens April 22.
After a delay to its season for negotiations with the stagehands union, Atlantic Theater is restarting its exciting slate of plays, including Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp, directed by the always exceptional Les Waters. In a cabin in the prophetically named town of Hurt, Virginia, teenage campers gather to wrestle with loss. —Sara Holdren

In the aftermath of incarceration.
Futuro Media and PRX.
Season two of the Pulitzer-winning podcast picks up where it left off. After following David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez’s road from juvenile lifer to freedom, the new episodes explore the trials and tribulations of life after prison. —Nicholas Quah

Dances with the devil.
Booth Theatre, in previews; opens April 14.
Sadie Sink stars in Kimberly Belflower’s claws-out comedy about a high-school English class in rural Georgia where an old play gives rise to some intense new drama. These students aren’t going to take Arthur Miller’s The Crucible lying down. Danya Taymor directs Belflower’s exploration of the tumult of growing up and terror of grappling with the way things have always been. —S.H.

The thinking man’s space opera returns.
Disney+, April 22.
Yes, yes, it’s a Star Wars show. But it’s also the only Star Wars title, now in its second season, ever made for grown-ups, and it uses its imperial backdrop to talk about oppression, courage, political revolution, and the humanism of populist movements. It’s fantastic. Also Mon Mothma’s totally getting a divorce. —Kathryn VanArendonk

Fantasy visions in 3-D.
White Cube, 1002 Madison Avenue; through April 19.
The first thing you’ll encounter inside the space is a 25th-century snake charmer with maybe a dozen sliced faces playing a multiplying flute — or vaping some 30 pipes — conjuring one of the most outrageous sci-fi–fantasy serpents you’ll ever set eyes on. The exhibit is a triumph of scale, sculpture in the round, and a wild narrative substructure. —Jerry Saltz

Return of the clickers.
HBO, April 13.
In season two, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey continue to deal with the fallout from a zombie-fungus pandemic. They’re joined by new cast members including Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Wright, who reprises his role as Isaac Dixon from the video game that inspired this series. —J.C.

How to take the heat.
Little, Brown and Company, April 15.
The massiveness of climate change — and the global scale at which we’d have to operate to slow it down — can make it hard to think about. In his new book, leftist author Malcolm Harris tries to do just that, offering a practical set of approaches to a planetary problem. —Emma Alpern

A Talented Mr. Ripley for the social-media era.
MoMA and Lincoln Center, April 12 and 13.
This year’s New Directors/New Films closes out with the New York premiere of the directorial debut from Alex Russell, a writer on The Bear and Beef. It stars Théodore Pellerin as a gawky boutique employee who falls in with an up-and-coming pop star (Archie Madekwe) and soon proves he’s willing to do anything to bask in his new friend’s reflected fame. —Alison Willmore

Bring a lighter.
MVP Arena, April 20.
The festival touts a versatile roster of New York hip-hop veterans: Harlem star Jim Jones reps his aughts heyday, while the enduring Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Redman tap into everything since the ’90s. Can you think of a better way to spend the rare combination Easter and 4/20 than with the godbody-rap icons from How High? —Craig Jenkins

Spoiler alert: They’re not actually happy.
Prime Video, April 17.
Ramy Youssef teams up with South Park writer and producer Pam Brady for this satirical animated series about a Muslim family just after September 11. In response to their neighbors’ paranoia and widespread Islamophobia, the Husseins decide to look one way inside their home and another outside of it. The voice cast includes Youssef, Alia Shawkat, and Kieran Culkin. —Roxana Hadadi

Vernal instinct.
Park Avenue Armory, April 11 and 13.
With spring inching its way out of the hard ground, lilac-voiced soprano Morley, with Moore on piano, gives a recital including selections from Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Huit Chansons de Fleurs” and assorted 19th-century songs about nightingales, butterflies, roses, and green love. —J.D.

A tariff-free Canadian import for us all.
Netflix, April 10.
A hit in Canada that feels like a cross between Schitt’s Creek and Rutherford Falls, North of North stars Anna Lambe as Siaja, a young mother reinventing herself in her small Arctic town. The comedy, from a creative team that includes Reservation Dogs alumni, centers Siaja’s relationships with her mother, daughter, and ex-husband. —R.H.

Hey there, pardner.
Matador Records, April 18.
If you loved the last albums by indie troubadours Julien Baker and TORRES, the pure country on their collaborative effort, Send a Prayer My Way, might come as a surprise. What won’t is the blend of earnest writing and affecting performance. —C.J.

Toil and trouble.
BAM, April 13 and 14.
The Brooklyn theater is showing a series of big-screen riffs on Macbeth to accompany the theatrical run of Macbeth in Stride, among them Luchino Visconti’s 1969 wrecking ball of a historical drama about a family of German industrialists that devours itself whole catering to the rising Nazi Party just after the Weimar era. —S.H.

Double up on Shostakovich.
Carnegie Hall, April 23 and 24.
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida interjects Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in the orchestra’s otherwise all-Shostakovich residency: the 15th Symphony one night and the 11th the next, led by Andris Nelsons, alongside Yo-Yo Ma’s performance of the Cello Concerto No. 1. —Justin Davidson

Rules of estrangement.
BritBox, April 16.
A divorced couple decide to spend a summer together at a relative’s coastal estate; of course, someone is murdered, and the detective who comes to investigate realizes that everyone has a motive. The locked-door shenanigans are typical, but the cast is not — Anjelica Huston and Matthew Rhys lead an ensemble featuring Clarke Peters, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Anjana Vasan. —R.H.

Theater
19. See Rheology
The second law of family dynamics.
The Bushwick Starr, April 15 through May 3.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Obie-winning, Pulitzer-finalist play Public Obscenities was a gorgeous highlight of 2024. Now, he brings a new play in a new form to the extremely worth-the-visit new home of the Bushwick Starr. In Rheology — created and performed in collaboration with his mother, Bulbul Chakraborty — Chowdhury weaves together his obsessions as an artist with those of Chakraborty, a physicist who studies “the mystery of sand.” —S.H.

Books
20. Read Name
Anti-origin stories.
Semiotext(e), April 15.
Constance Debré left her job as a lawyer, ended her marriage, started dating women, and wrote two books about it. Name, the third volume in her trilogy, tackles the renunciation of family origins and filial links in the name of freedom. Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin, this autobiographical novel is searing and radical. —Jasmine Vojdani

Classical
21. See Music of Fire & Love
Renaissance sounds with the volume up.
92nd Street Y, April 11.
Elder statesman of early music Jordi Savall and his ensemble Hespèrion XXI explore the wild side of the 16th and 17th centuries with fiery dances, battle pieces, and breast-beating laments. —J.D.

TV
22. Watch The Rehearsal
Gentlemen, start your cringes.
HBO, April 20. Season one involved Nathan Fielder staging fake scenarios, such as raising a pretend child in a faux co-parenting situation, to help people practice the emotions they might eventually feel in real life. He’s back to do it again by putting “his resources toward an issue that affects us all,” according to HBO. —J.C.

Art
23. See Alec Soth
Class is in session.
Sean Kelly, 475 Tenth Avenue; through April 18.
In “Advice for Young Artists,” the photographer turns his camera on an environment he knows well: art schools and university art departments. We see pictures that comment on pictures, self-portraits that don’t seem that way, and still lives that look found, made up, and sculptural. —J.S.

Movies
24. See Direct Action
Creation Lake readers, take note.
Anthology Film Archive, April 10 through 17.
Documentarians Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell spent years embedded with rural activists in France. Their new film shows how these communities have long faced sometimes violent attempts by the state to evict them from their land to make way for an airport and, more recently, build a reservoir that’s seen as a means of privatizing access to water. —A.W.

Classical
25. See Lucas Debargue
The pianist takes a smaller stage than usual.
National Sawdust, April 11.
The French piano phenomenon, who wowed critics at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, performs a recital in the intimate space. The program? You’ll find out when you get there. —J.D.