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Jazz Saxophone Great Sonny Rollins Has Died At 95
“From his days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational...
Gallerist Brett Sikkema’s Husband Convicted Of Ordering His Murder
“In a grisly case that shocked the art world, a Cuban-American man was found guilty of his role in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the...
Russia Bombs Many Of Kyiv’s Major Cultural And Historical Sites
The National Art Museum, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kyiv Opera Theater, National Chornobyl Museum, Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium and Hinaus Gallery were among sites...
Brian Large, 87, Masterful TV And Film Producer Of Opera And Classical Music
He directed well over 100 films and telecasts of operas and concerts for the BBC, the Royal Opera House in London, the Met, and...
The Robot Fight Clubs Of San Francisco Are Now Having Dance Wars
Yes, this is a thing. - The San Francisco Standard
One Of Chicago’s Veteran Music Critics Writes An Opera About His Holocaust-Survivor Mother
In 2019, Howard Reich, longtime jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, published The Art of Inventing Hope, based on conversations with Elie Wiesel and...
New Zealand To Decentralize Arts Funding, Awarding Most Grants Regionally
The national government’s arts agency, Creative New Zealand, plans to have most funding decisions (excepting international projects and national companies such as the NZ...
Michael Pennington, One Of Britain’s Great Classical Stage Actors, Is Dead At 82
“Over the years with the RSC, the English Shakespeare Company” — which he co-founded — “and beyond, Pennington played most of the leading roles...
Owner Of Music For “Peanuts” TV Specials Files Four Copyright Lawsuits, One Of Them...
“The owner of the Peanuts television and film music catalog is suing multiple entities over the alleged unlawful use of jazz artist Vince Guaraldi's famous tracks from the "Charlie...
Chicago Tribune Strikes Last-Minute Agreement To Buy Suburban Paper Daily Herald
The Tribune, owned by finance firm Alden Global Capital, landed the deal to purchase the employee-owned Herald (based in northwestern suburb Arlington Heights) after...
San Francisco Symphony Didn’t Choose A Star Music Director. They Did Something Better.
Joshua Kosman: “In appointing Elim Chan as its next music director, the San Francisco Symphony has tapped the most inexperienced, unproven new artistic leader...
Officials Say Congressional Approval To Build Trump’s Triumphal Arch Was Granted 101 Years Ago
“The Trump administration does not plan to seek approval from Congress for President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot arch, arguing that they do not need it...
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...
