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A Dynastic Succession In The Kabuki Theater World Is A Dramatic Affair
“Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the traditional Japanese artform, … and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and...
France Passes Law To Expedite Return Of Looted Artworks
“The bill aims to simplify the return of cultural property taken illegally from France’s former colonies, particularly focusing on items taken between 1815 and...
At This Point, Alec Baldwin Just Wants To Retire
The accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, the two (unsuccessful) prosecutions in New Mexico, finishing the film in another state...
Move Over, Nollywood, Nigeria Has A Second Thriving Movie Industry
Nigeria’s film ecosystem is known mostly for Nollywood, the industry headquartered in Lagos. In the largely Muslim north of the country, however, there’s Kannywood,...
Philadelphia Ballet Gives Its Long-Awaited New Home A Test Run
“Dancers danced at the company’s new North Broad Street building for the first time. Even as construction workers continued their own choreography of spackling and power-driving...
Ex-COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Pleads Not Guilty To Theft Charges
“On Tuesday, during (Brady) Lum’s arraignment in federal court in Atlanta, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia accused Lum of...
This 95-Second Scene Change At The Met Opera Is An Astounding Feat Of Coordination
In the company’s staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, seven stage managers, four prop masters, and a big flock of stagehands transform the set...
Kennedy Center Boss: See? We Really Do Need To Renovate!
“Matt Floca, the new executive director and COO, is leading tours this month that show water damage and intrusion to expansion joints, marble slabs...
Hampshire College Will Shut Down At End Of Year
“Founded in 1965, and opening its doors to students five years later as a campus determined to ‘radically reimagine liberal arts education,’ the small...
Performing Arts Touring In England Is “In Crisis” And Needs “Radical Rethink”: Report
“A report commissioned by Arts Council England finds that touring is ‘in crisis’, though ‘not entirely broken’, given some parts of the sector, such...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is Saved, Three Weeks Before It Was To Close
“The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofit parent organization of The Baltimore Banner, reached an agreement with Block Communications to acquire the I, which was slated...
Other Legacy U.S. Newspapers Which Have Gone Nonprofit
So far, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the fourth large one (not including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which remains for-profit itself though it is owned by...
The Trump-As-Jesus Image Conveyed More Than He Realized: Philip Kennicott
“Among those messages: a palpable sense of desperation. In the rapid and angry response to the meme, one sensed a coalition beginning to crack,...
Performing “A Streetcar Named Desire” In “Found Spaces” All Across The U.S.
“Featuring four actors, a sparse set, and no props, … this production has been performed since 2023 on all manner of improvised stages. An...
LGBTQ Bookstores Had Been Slowly Disappearing For Years, Now There’s A New Generation Of...
“The number of LGBTQ+-focused bookstores in the U.S. has slowly but steadily increased over the past five years. While this new generation of booksellers...
Australia’s Most Controversial Exhibition Of Indigenous Art Opens After Three-Year Delay
The major exhibition “Ngura Puḻka – Epic Country,” was supposed to open at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2023. It was almost entirely...
Sid Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
A puppeteer since childhood, Sid, with his younger brother Marty (who died 2½ years ago), produced H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos,...
To This We’ve Come: The Trocks Say Some US Presenters Are Now Afraid To...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, to use the full name, has been popular all over the country and overseas for decades. Now some...
What Paramount Is Planning For Its New Publishing House
“The new imprint will develop new publishing content based on properties from Paramount’s various divisions, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, ... Star Trek, and Yellowstone,...
Sony Pictures Entertainment Is Laying Off Hundreds Of Employees
“(The corporation) is restructuring its operations with plans for hundreds of layoffs across its film, TV and corporate divisions. Sources tell Variety the layoffs … are...
Should Music Directors Spend More Time In Their Orchestras’ Hometowns And Stop Juggling Multiple...
One the one hand, you have the Buffalo Philharmonic’s JoAnn Falletta and the South Dakota Symphony’s Delta David Gier, both thoroughly embedded in their...
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Report
“U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was...
Arts Council England Distributes Extra $176 Million For Venues’ Infrastructure Projects
“More than 100 cultural venues, museums, and libraries will share £130 million extra funding as part of the largest cash injection into the arts...
Japan Struggles With What Some There Call “Tourism Pollution”
“As the country’s economic malaise deepens, officials are eager for the economic boost of increased tourism, even as local communities find themselves entirely unprepared...
Translating “Swan Lake” Into Cambodian Classical Dance
In Lowell, Mass., a center of America's Cambodian diaspora, the Angkor Dance Troupe has worked hard to preserve the dance traditions nearly wiped out...
