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New York State’s $400M Broadway Tax Credit Has Already Run Out Of Money
“Tax credits ran out quickly this year, both due to demand, and as productions had been conditionally approved for the credit before the (law...
American Late-Night TV Isn’t Dead. Yet.
“But its future, which was never exactly bright, might be cratering. The hoary format’s downward slide has, up until this point, been comparatively slow,...
Maybe You Can Get Famous Playing The Edinburgh Fringe, But You Sure Won’t Get...
“The sprawling festival, open to any act that can find a venue and pay a registration fee, will this year showcase over 3,000 acts.”...
Washington National Opera Director Francesca Zambello On Relations With Kennedy Center’s New Regime
“The new management has not entered into our artistic planning. They support it and the same way they support the National Symphony …, and...
Allan Ahlberg, Author Of “The Jolly Postman” And Other Children’s Classics, Has Died At...
“Ahlberg’s (more than 150) books introduced generations of young children to reading through simple rhymes, sharp observation and gentle humor. Many were co-created with...
Public TV And Radio Across New York State Lose $57 Million In Trump/Congress Cuts
“Nearly $50 million of that will come from the budgets of public radio and TV stations, while roughly $7.6 million will come from the...
Smithsonian Removes Trump’s Name From Exhibit On Impeached Presidents
“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. … After this...
Man Leaps To His Death From Roof Of Whitney Museum
“An unidentified 34-year-old man died after jumping from the Whitney Museum on Wednesday evening, shortly before the museum closed, according to a source with...
Gems Revered As Relics Of Buddha Returned From Sotheby’s To India
The gems were originally, circa 240 BC, buried in a stupa in Piprahwa, India, where they were mixed with some cremated remains of the Buddha. The...
Surprising Facts About Caligula, Everybody’s Favorite Horrible Roman Emperor
“Despite his character, and questionable sanity, Caligula was also man of great intellect and learning with a particularly keen knowledge of pharmacology. … Caligula was...
Are Spoof Movies Making A Comeback?
Their heyday was the 1980s and ‘90s, from Airplane! through the National Lampoon and Austin Powers franchises, Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, and Scary Movie, but...
Another Leader Of Theater In DC Is Stepping Down
“The early announcement of David Muse’s 2027 departure as artistic director of Studio Theatre … allows the institution ample time to search for a...
US Nonfiction Book Sales Are Down — Except For Titles About Tyranny
“While sales of such seemingly prescient novels as 1984 by George Orwell (1949) and Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler (1993) (have) surged …, backlist nonfiction titles...
At Versailles Palace, Visitors Converse With The Statuary (Via Chatbot)
Farah Nayeri: “Powered by the tech giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an audio tool lets visitors (on or off site) converse with 20...
In Los Angeles, Dance Groups Large And Small Face Money Struggles
“With the stress of federal and local funding cuts, as well as the January fires, many L.A. dance organizations are scaling back their programming...
Regional Newspapers Are Bundling New York Times Content Into Their Own Subscription Packages
For instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer includes access to the NYT Cooking app with its premium subscription, while The Minnesota Star Tribune does something similar...
City Of Chicago Will Replace Some Grant Money Cancelled By NEA
The city’s Arts Relief Fund will offer grants between $10,000 and $25,000 to Chicago arts organizations who had their announced NEA grants withdrawn by...
Even More Layoffs At A PBS/NPR Station, This Time At Pittsburgh’s WQED
Due to the recission of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds by the Trump administration and Congress, WQED is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall...
Shakeup At L.A. MOCA As Outgoing Director Leaves Early
When director Joanna Burton revealed last week that she’s going to ICA in Philadelphia, she said she’d stay at MOCA through late October. On...
Anna Netrebko’s Lawsuit Against Metropolitan Opera Will Proceed
“A federal judge says Russian soprano Anna Netrebko can move forward with her case claiming national origin discrimination by the Metropolitan Opera, which dropped...
U.S. Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Intervened To Stop Trump’s Firing of National Portrait Gallery...
Chief Justice John Roberts is, ex officio, the Smithsonian Institution’s chancellor (the equivalent of board chairman). When Trump up and decided to fire National...
The Choreographer Who Thrills Audiences With A Trampoline And A Staircase
“What (Yoann) Bourgeois plays with are the invisible physical forces that surround us – gravity, tension, suspension – and the interaction between those forces,...
A Professor Tries Using Chat-GPT To Do His Job
“I decided to put the central, existential question to (my students) directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice...
There’s Been A Surge Of Movies About Metrics And Math Lately. Why is That?
Because, writes Bilge Ebiri, “everywhere we look, numbers reign supreme. Metrics determine our life and work in ways that were inconceivable ten or 15...
It’s Fine, Go Ahead And Let Your Kids Watch TV, Argues TV Critic
New York magazine’s Kathryn VanArendonk knows it’s not tenable to prevent her kids from doing what she does all day. “But my (policy is)...
