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As It Struggles Financially, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre Tries A Three-Leader Management Structure
“Actor and former Magic Theatre board member Sarah Nina Hayon, who also founded New York's 24SevenLab, is artistic director; actor Daniel Duque-Estrada is producing...
Alan Cumming’s Theatre In The Scottish Highlands Will Present Its Own Mini-Version Of Edinburgh...
Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s five-day event — called “Edinlochry” — won’t be as chaotic as the actual Edinburgh Fringe can be, mainly because it will...
Sarasota Opera’s Longtime Artistic Director Writes Op-Ed Explaining Why He Resigned
Victor DeRenzi: “In the last few years, I had begun to realize that I could not develop an artistic future for the opera with...
Syracuse Orchestra Appoints Music Director
Austin Chanu, a 33-year-old Brazilian-American and a former assistant conductor at the Philadelphia Orchestra, succeeds Lawrence Loh, whose 10-year tenure ended in May 2025....
California’s Next Big Tax Incentive For Movie Industry Will Target Post-Production Workers
“Assembly Bill 2319, which passed the California State Assembly and is awaiting a vote in the State Senate, would establish a $100 million budget...
Lehigh Valley Public Media Acquires Lehigh University’s Radio Station
“The National Public Radio affiliate WLVR, which broadcasts at 91.3 FM, has been sold outright to LVPM by the university, which announced the transfer...
Kennedy Center Establishes A New Endowment, One Named After Donald Trump
“(Its) establishment comes less than two weeks after a judge ruled the Kennedy Center's board acted unlawfully in adding the president's name. … A...
11th-Century Cathedral In Kyiv Set On Fire By Russian Missiles
“A massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv has badly damaged the Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, a UNESCO world...
Jazz Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim Dead At 91
“In an extraordinarily accomplished career that spanned eight decades, Ibrahim helped bring bebop stylings to South Africa, and he bonded with Duke Ellington, who...
What Virgil Thought About Bees
“(The Latin poet) recognized that bees had what we might call social being — co-dependent, organized, enterprising — and he praised them for having...
A Musical About The 1984 Miners-And-Gays Coalition (Wait, What?)
Pride: the Musical, now at the National Theatre in London, is the stage adaptation of a 2014 film about the London-based activist group Lesbians...
National Center For Choreography-Akron Marks 10 Years
“For (a decade NCAAkron) has supported research and development of new work by over 800 dancers from around the United States through dancing...
Washington National Opera Sues Kennedy Center
“The Washington National Opera (WNO) filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging that the Kennedy Center failed to return more than $17 million in donations made...
BookTok Is Turning Some Authors Into Bona Fide Stars, And Hollywood Is Noticing
“The streamers are newer. They don't have established libraries of ‘80s and ‘90s movies to reboot, and yet they're still looking for familiarity of...
Are U.S. Public Radio And TV About To Undergo A Wave Of Mergers?
“It’s clear that” — with the cuts in federal funding for public broadcasting likely being permanent — “there’s vulnerability in being a small, independent...
International African-American Museum Institutes Rolling Furloughs For All Employees
Just under three years after opening, the museum on Charleston’s waterfront is facing financial troubles severe enough that all staffers, including senior executives, are...
Pittsburgh Symphony Extends Manfred Honeck’s Music Director Contract To 2033
“The renewal will give Honeck a 25-year tenure with the orchestra, making him the longest-serving music director in the Pittsburgh Symphony’s 131-year history. Honeck,...
David Hockney, 88
“Over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing. …...
Boston Symphony CEO: Yes, We Handled The Nelsons Thing Poorly. No, We’re Not Changing...
Chad Smith: “I can see that it was an abrupt announcement externally. It didn’t represent abrupt decision-making, though. It was a very considered conversation...
Pianist Igor Levit Launches His Own Record Label
The imprint, which will operate within Sony Music, Levit’s longtime label, is called No Silence, and will feature artists other than Levit himself. Among...
The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly
“’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure...
Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs
“By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen —...
San Diego Mayor’s Budget Eliminates Arts Funding. This New Plan Restores Over 90% Of...
The plan from City Council members and the Prebys Foundation will have the nonprofit provide $3 million in one-time replacement money, while the city...
Pennsylvania Reverses Decision Not To Fund Smallest Arts Organizations
“Last year, the (Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) renamed itself Pennsylvania Creative Industries and reorganized its funding criteria, making organizations with budgets under $100,000...
The Looted Antiquities Trade Continues For The Same Reason The Illegal Drug Trade Does
In a word, demand. - Artnet
