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People Pray For Hot Concert Tickets At This 1,000-Year-Old Tokyo Shrine
For many pop concerts in Japan, “fans enter (a lottery) for the chance to buy tickets and can only purchase them in limited quantities...
“The Devil Wears Prada” And The Rise And Fall Of Chick Lit
“Before it was a movie, Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada, published by Broadway Books in 2003, marked the absolute high point of that once-ubiquitous...
“Death Of A Salesman” Director Joe Mantello On Working With Disgraced Broadway Producer Scott...
“I would be lying if I said … I didn’t grapple with making that decision. … I will say I do believe in accountability, and...
For Her Second Choreography Commission From NY City Ballet, Tiler Peck Is Going Big
It’s George Balanchine’s company, after all, and he had a special gift for coordinating and synchronizing large casts. Peck particularly admires that achievement and...
At Last, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum Has A (Partial) Reopening Date
“Traditionally one of the German capital’s top tourist attractions, (the Pergamon) will reopen next year after the first part of a painstaking restoration effort....
María Nieves Rego, Co-Creator Of Worldwide Hit “Tango Argentino,” Has Died At 91
“With her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes” — described as the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of tango — “(she) formed...
L.A.’s Holocaust Museum To Reopen As Part Of New Cultural Center
“The Holocaust Museum LA, the first survivor-founded and oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, will reopen after a 10-month closure as part of...
Having Canceled Most Of Its Concerts, San Antonio Philharmonic Schedules A Couple Of New...
In mid-February, the precarious orchestra called off the remainder of this season and lost its music director. In what may be a surprising development,...
A Visit To Russia’s Exhibition At The Venice Biennale
“There weren’t any paintings or sculptures in Russia’s pale green building, which dates to before the Revolution. Instead, … the Toloka Ensemble, a folk...
Publishers And Authors Sue Meta And Mark Zuckerberg (Personally) For AI-Related Copyright Infringement
Five large publishing houses, along with Scott Turow representing authors as a class, allege in their filing that Zuckerberg himself “personally authorized and actively...
James Murdoch Is Looking To Buy New York Magazine And Its Podcasts
“Media investor James Murdoch is in advanced talks to buy Vox Media’s New York magazine and podcast division, according to people familiar with the...
A Visit To Africa’s Largest Contemporary Dance Festival
“Founded in 1997, the African Dance Biennial has spent three decades rotating across African cities — most recently Maputo, Mozambique, in 2023 — with...
Conductor Fired From Venice’s Opera House Speaks Out
Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director of Teatro La Fenice was greeted with an avalanche of criticism that she was unqualified, hired only because...
Leon Botstein To Retire As Bard College’s President Following Epstein Revelations
The 79-year-old music historian and conductor will step down in June after 51 years leading the small liberal arts college in New York’s Hudson...
Boston, Cape Cod, Central Mass. Public Radio Outlets To Merge
“WGBH Educational Foundation and New England Public Media plan to formally merge operations by the summer of 2026. ... The merger will combine Boston-based...
BBC’s Newsroom Will Be Hit Hardest By Job Cuts
“The division, home to about a quarter of all BBC staff, is being saddled with one of the highest cost-cutting targets as the corporation...
Days Before Opening, Iran Withdraws From Venice Biennale
“On Monday, in a statement, Biennale organizers announced that Iran had dropped out and would no longer be exhibiting its planned pavilion. The announcement comes …...
Backstage Workers’ Union Files Charges Against Kennedy Center Over Layoffs
“The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has filed charges (with the National Labor relations Board) against the Kennedy Center, accusing management of permanently cutting...
Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor” Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize For Music
“The work, … premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Marin Alsop in March 2025. … is based on an original story inspired by...
2026 Pulitzer Prize For Drama Goes To Bess Wohl’s “Liberation”
“Liberation centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives...
Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Lamster won for a series of columns about downtown Dallas that sparked civic debate and revealed how past decisions have shaped the present. A...
2026 Pulitzer Prizes For Books Go To Jill Lepore, Yiyun Lin, Amanda Vaill, Daniel...
Kraus’s Angel Down took fiction honors; Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us won for general nonfiction; Lepore’s We the People took history honors;...
Six Elite Ballet Dancers On What They Did After Retiring From The Stage
One became a kindergarten teacher and social worker; another became a midwife. One lucky fellow got to be artistic director of a company; another...
The Struggle To Protect Mauritania’s Medieval Library Town
Chinguetti developed as a trading post on the trans-Sahara caravan route to Timbuktu — and, as in Timbuktu, over the centuries Chinguetti families came...
Pay-To-Play: Rich People Are Hiring Themselves Orchestras To Conduct
“These experiences allow people with money but little musical ability to roleplay composer and conductor — for a price. This development flows naturally from...
