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How Langston Hughes’s “The Black Clown” Became An Opera
“The magic of creator, lead actor, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines’s operatic adaption of Langston Hughes’s 1931 dramatic monologue The Black Clown lies in its everythingness....
One Of Cuba’s Most Unusual Choreographers Tries To Stay Afloat Amid The Island’s Economic...
“For nearly three decades Cuba’s Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2,000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered...
Trial Begins For Murder Of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema, Allegedly By Order Of His...
“The estranged husband of a prominent New York City art dealer said he wished his spouse was dead before the co-owner of a contemporary...
London Museum To Return Old Jain Manuscripts (Though They Aren’t Leaving Britain)
The Wellcome Collection is ceding ownership of more than 2,000 documents, dating from the 15th to 19th centuries, bought from a Jain temple in...
How Some Of Broadway’s Biggest Stars This Season Get Themselves Into Character
Daniel Radcliffe, Every Brilliant Thing: “My ideal version is that the play starts without you noticing.” Ana Gasteyer, Schmigadoon!: “People from my particular background,...
Have A Look Inside The New Home Of Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre
“It’s a $46 million project built within the shell of a historic storage warehouse that was built by the W.C. Reebie and Brother Company...
Staffers At San Francisco Arts Commission Want To Know Where The Hell Their Boss...
“Employees and artists are speaking out about turmoil in the San Francisco Arts Commission, alleging that its leader has been chronically absent and arguing...
The Dallas Opera Appoints New CEO, David Lomelí
Previously chief artistic officer at Santa Fe Opera, Lomelí — who had an 11-year career as a tenor — has spent more than a...
Suspect Arrested In Massive Louvre Ticketing Scam
"A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the...
Settlement Reached In South Florida Public Radio Lawsuit
“In an out-of-court settlement announced Thursday, the Miami-Dade County School Board, which owns the news/talk outlet (WLRN), and South Florida Public Media Group, which...
Claudine Longet — Singer, Actress, Notorious Criminal Defendant — Has Died At 84
“The French-born singer, actress and ex-wife of Andy Williams was at the center of a scandalous 1976 trial and media circus after she fatally shot...
Remembering “The Pied Piper Of Early Music,” David Munrow, 50 Years After His Suicide
"With all the bravura of the 1960s, David Munrow erupted into the world of early music and transformed what had been a minority interest...
The Producer Who Wants To Make Microdramas Which Are Actually Good
“Snow Story Productions CEO Austin Herring said the big hits in microdramas were ‘borderline unwatchable’ when he entered the field in 2024, where salacious...
Aszure Barton’s Final Choreography Commission For Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
LubDub is the fourth and final piece of Barton’s three years as Hubbard Street’s resident choreographer. “Asked to discuss the movement vocabulary she employs...
Keats’s Rediscovered Love Letters Could Sell For $2 Million
“A once-stolen collection of letters written by the poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne will be sold at Sotheby’s New York this...
Louvre Prioritized Prestige Over Security In Period Before Crown Jewel Theft, Says French Parliament...
“Security, the report revealed, had been ‘relegated to the background,’ despite two audits completed in 2017 and 2019, years before the jewel heist. The...
A New Raft Of Plays With Invented Dialogue Depicting Real People And Events
“Drama has historically been considered a form of fiction or poetry. Yet as recent plays approach the feeling of reportage, what’s surprising isn’t that...
Georgian Government Sentences Renowned Opera Singer-Turned Opposition Leader To Seven Years In Prison
Paata Burchuladze, who had a very successful career as a bass before returning home to participate in the struggle against an increasingly authoritarian government,...
Santa Fe Opera Extends Music Director’s Contract, Appoints New Principal Conductor
British conductor Harry Bicket, who was appointed the summer festival’s principal conductor in 2013 and music director in 2018, has extended his contract through...
Lincoln Center Unveils $335 Million Redesign Of Its Western Edge
The project, which aims to make that side of the campus less fortress-like and more inviting, will turn the concrete-heavy stretch around Damrosch Park...
As CBS News Radio Goes Off The Air, Longtime Staffers Remember Its 99-Year History
Dan Rather: “CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution. It, for many, many years, was part — and I would argue...
Iran: We Never Dropped Out Of The Venice Biennale, And We’re Still Coming
Earlier this month, Biennale organizers announced that Iran had withdrawn from the event. But a high official in the country’s culture ministry just said...
The Various Things British People Mean When They Say “Sorry”
“In the UK, ‘sorry’ is not simply an apology, it's a cultural reflex – a five-letter pressure valve used to soften requests, smooth over...
Harvey Weinstein Is On His Third Trial For This Rape Case — And This...
The disgraced movie mogul was first tried for the alleged assault of Jessica Mann in 2020; he was convicted of third-degree rape, but the...
Australia Announces A$1.1 Billion Arts Funding Budget
“The government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled a $1.1 billion (just under US$800 million) arts and culture package in the 2026–27 Federal...
