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London’s Largest Theatre Operator, ATG, Will Soon Be For Sale: Report
“A decision to go ahead with a sale of ATG Entertainment, previously known as Ambassador Theatre Group, … could value the business at more...
PBS Station In Rural Illinois Goes Off The Air After Federal Funding Cuts
WEIU, licensed to and based at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, has halted over-the-air broadcasting and become an online-streaming-only station. Now-discontinued federal grants had...
Small-Town Wisconsin Company Wins 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award
American Players Theatre, located in Spring Green, Wisconsin — a town 40 miles west of Madison, home to roughly 1,500 people and Frank Lloyd...
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa: Why I Choreograph
“I choreograph because it is the only language in which I feel completely uninhibited. … Words remain fragile. They can be misinterpreted or fail...
Adjusted For Inflation, Ticket Prices In London’s West End Have Actually Fallen Since Pandemic
“In the West End, average ticket prices rose by a nominal 0.92 per cent over the last year. When measured against the annual UK...
Was The Off-Broadway Production Of “Titanique” Defrauded By Its Own General Manager?
That’s the allegation in a lawsuit filed by the production company (called Iceberg Ahead LLC) in Virginia against former general manager Carl Flanigan. In...
The Man Who Invented Dinner Theater, William Pullinsi, Has Died At 86
“The founding artistic director of the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in southwest suburban (Chicagoland), (he was) widely regarded as the founder of dinner theater in...
U.S. Has Halted Flight Of Film Production Overseas (At Least For Now)
“Data from the first quarter of 2026 shows signs that the United States is halting the exodus of film and television productions to other...
Composer Thomas Adès Gets His First Official Conducting Job
The 55-year-old London native has long been active as a guest conductor, and not only of his own music. He has now been appointed...
Museum Wall Text Has Become Another Culture-War Battleground
“Traditionally, museum wall text has been no more controversial than signs pointing visitors to the restrooms, and the Smithsonian still has descriptions placed near...
Paris Judge Rejects Attempt To Block New Windows Commissioned For Notre-Dame
“A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be...
Short Story Which Won Prize Last Week Is Now Thought To Be Written By...
“’The Serpent in the Grove’ was named as the winning entry for the Commonwealth Prize from the Caribbean on Saturday and published in Granta...
Pirated Audiobooks Voiced By AI Bots Are All Over YouTube
“While piracy has long been an issue for the book business, the rapid rise of unauthorized audiobooks” — typically with vocally flat narration and...
James Murdoch Buys “New York” Magazine And Vox
Rupert Murdoch’s younger, more liberal-leaning son has purchased, for a reported-but-unconfirmed $300 million, roughly half of the current Vox Media: New York magazine and...
A New Arts-And-Culture Magazine Focused On “The Creative Process”
“Former Pitchfork and Spin editor-in-chief Puja Patel is launching Totei, a publication dedicated to ‘craft and craftsmanship.’ The online magazine will publish content weekly, including...
French Actor/Singer Patrick Bruel Faces Rape Allegations In Two Countries
Bruel, 67, who has had a string of top-selling albums and appeared in more than 40 films, is under investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office...
New Artistic Director For Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
“After 18 years as artistic director and two years in dual roles as chief executive and artistic director, Debbie Blunden-Diggs, daughter of DCDC founder...
Dubai Says It’s Building A Big New Museum For Digital Art
“The planned Museum of Digital Art (MODA) … is part of Dubai’s monumental $27 billion transformation of its financial center into a tech hub, announced earlier...
Pittsburgh’s Theater Scene Faces Loss Of Its Resident Talent
With the merger of the city’s two largest stage companies and the programming of inexpensive-to-produce small-cast shows, Pittsburgh's gig market for theater artists is...
“Death Becomes Her” Sets Broadway Closing Date, North American Tour
The musical, which garnered good reviews and 10 Tony nominations but only one actual Tony, will close June 28 after a 20-month run which...
World Premiere Of Wynton Marsalis’s Symphony No. 5 Postponed
Subtitled “Liberty,” the work was due to premiere the last weekend of May, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra...
The Antonio Stradivari of Brooklyn?
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center actually programmed a gala in honor of luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz — because so many of its members,...
The Guy Who’s Taking Over Stephen Colbert’s Time Slot Just Bought BuzzFeed
Byron Allen, a former stand-up comedian whose Allen Media Group owns 13 local TV stations, The Weather Channel and other outlets, announced a $120...
Texas Public Radio To Merge Operations With News Site San Antonio Report
“The move, unanimously approved by both organizations’ boards of directors, is expected to launch July 1. Leaders say the initiative will allow the two...
International Booker Prize, For First Time, Goes To Novel Written In Mandarin Chinese
Taiwan Travelogue, written by Yáng Shuāng-zi and translated by Lin King, takes the form of a travel memoir by a (fictional) Japanese novelist on...
