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How Byron Allen Went From Standup Comic To Media Mogul To Stephen Colbert’s Time...
“He was one of the first entertainers to recognize that there was more money to be made in owning your content, rather than just...
The Song Company, Australia’s Leading Vocal Chamber Ensemble, Is Closing Permanently
Founded in 1984 in Sydney, The Song Company, which consisted of six to eight singers, regularly performed music ranging from the Middle Ages and...
Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela: The Exit Interview
“The amount of things that I didn’t get! … We will never get to fulfil the potential of what we want to achieve. There...
Theatre In London’s West End To Be Renamed For Judi Dench
“The Shaftesbury Theatre will be known as the Judi Dench Theatre from February 2027. … Dench has a long association with the Shaftesbury, which...
New Owners Roxane Gay And Debbie Millman Relaunch Online Lit Magazine The Rumpus
“We'll still be covering, with the same rigor and integrity, fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews, author interviews, and so forth,” said Millman. “But we're...
Have New Books Gotten More Expensive? Yes, But …
Hardcovers which for years cost around $20 are now routinely marked at $30 or more. However, both publishing executives and booksellers maintain that the...
The Hague’s Mauritshuis Museum May Keep Its Rembrandts, Rules Judge
Abraham Bredius, museum director from 1889 to 1909, bequeathed the Mauritshuis 25 of his own Old Master paintings — by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and...
University Of Texas Fires General Manager Of Austin’s NPR Station
“The University of Texas at Austin has dismissed Debbie Hiott as General Manager of KUT Public Media, ending the tenure of a … public...
Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Has Become Far More Politically Charged Than Most Corporate Megadeals
“Opponents allege the Ellison family's acquisition of so many media properties — CBS News, CNN and Larry Ellison's stake in TikTok — threatens free...
Preservationists Sue To Block Trump’s “National Garden Of American Heroes”
“Congress has made clear that the National Mall is … not a personal sandbox for each President to renovate however he likes,” argues the...
Federal Court Orders Kennedy Center To Make A Plan For Staying Open And Offering...
“Judge Christopher R. Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington asked for a status report from the Kennedy Center that would include plans for...
Trying To Improve The Pointe Shoe, Whose Customers Are Resistant To Change
“Ballet is an art form bound by tradition, with limited financial resources to support forward-thinking change. But that hasn’t stopped artists and artisans from...
“Graphic Journalist” Joe Sacco Says Penguin Random House India Censored His Book On Sectarian...
The Indian subsidiary of the publishing giant has withdrawn Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot, an account of the 2013 street battles between Hindus...
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...
