ENTERTAINMENT

T’s latest issue is all about entertainment. On the cover is Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Broadway visionary whose groundbreaking musical, “Hamilton,” recasts an oft-overlooked American founding father as a hip-hop renegade. We talk to the Tony-winning dramaturge, as well as the cadre of collaborators and confidants (including Stephen Sondheim and Questlove of the Roots) who helped bring his vision to life. We also swing by the happiest place on Earth — Disneyland — where one father revels in the power of suspended disbelief. And lest we forgot that other kind of entertaining — at which photographer Paul Costello and his wife, Sara Ruffin Costello, are so adept — we visit the couple’s home in New Orleans’s Garden District for a lesson in Southern hospitality. Elsewhere in the issue, T gets familiar with Christine and the Queens, a French music sensation who relies on originality, rather than sex, in her bid for pop stardom; Liesl Schillinger makes the case for modest summer suppers in an age of Carrara countertops and Instagram-worthy cooking; Alice Gregory explores the 50-year-old planned community of Sea Ranch, Calif., where the Modernist housing and embrace of nature are surprisingly of the moment; and the filmmaker Errol Morris and the actress Parker Posey try out 3D wallpaper, a healthy tequila drink and an adult coloring book — with predictably amusing results. See all stories from this issue >>

HIGHLIGHTS

For the Costellos, a Gentle Chaos

The family abandoned the frenzy of New York City for a slower pace. But life in a storied pink house in the Garden District of New Orleans is its own kind of crazy.

A Dual Review of What’s New, Starring Errol Morris and Parker Posey

Errol Morris and Parker Posey sip yogi tequila while sizing up 3D wallpaper and Yoko Ono’s set of sad saucers.

Utopia Rules at Sea Ranch, a Community Born of ’60s Idealism

With its gentle footprint on the California coast, simple wood houses and almost dictatorial aesthetic strictures, it feels as modern today as it did 50 years ago.

The Majesty of Jacquards

Once favored by kings, these rich fabrics lighten up without losing their luster.

A Question of Taste

Perhaps lazy summer days simply conjure understatement, but suddenly fancy kitchens and the hyper-styled meals they produce feel overcooked.

The American Revolutionary

Lin-Manuel Miranda has transformed theater — and the way we think about history — with 'Hamilton,' his new multiethnic hip-hop romp about 18th-century politics. His collaborators, Stephen Sondheim, Ron Chernow and the Roots, talk Broadway’s latest founding father.

The Happiness Project

Walt Disney didn’t just build a theme park for childhood fantasy. He created a world we believe in, and a journey to the land of the better self.

Of Darkness and Light

The artist Yinka Shonibare shines a ray of hope on the poet Natalie Diaz’s allegory of drug addiction and despair in the Mojave Desert.

Christine and the Queens, and the Opposite of Sex

While her musical peers straddle wrecking balls and shoot fireworks from their bras, the gamine 27-year-old French singer offers an awkward, androgynous and totally rocking alternative.

Into the Wild With Sarah Ryhanen

The imaginative Brooklyn florist wanted to grow flowers on her own terms. Long winters, lost crops and a creaky old house aside, it’s worked out perfectly.