LAS VEGAS − Abel Tesfaye, the musician known as The Weeknd, is a certified smash. Tesfaye, the movie star, is more of an unknown commodity. Audiences get to see both at work in the psychological ...

Adapting a stage name is a major tradition in the music industry, where artists are mostly known by their alternate persona rather than the original one. When Abel Tesfaye stepped into this glittery ...

Yet they regrouped, playing not one but two make-up dates in both Toronto and L.A. last fall, filming the latter for “Live at SoFi Stadium.” It captures both the musical and visual scope of the first ...