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What Director Joe Mantello Learned From Arthur Miller’s Draft Typescript Of “Death Of A...
The playwright’s handwritten notes, stage directions and edits made during rehearsals for the play’s world premiere contain some telling and even surprising details. “Sometimes,”...
On Set, Seeing How Microdramas Get Made
“As opposed to a traditional set, there are no luxury trailers for the stars, no furnished dressing rooms or green rooms for the execs....
Trouble At Chicago’s Theater Awards, The Jeffs
“A week after boos rained down in a ceremony honoring Chicago’s top storefront theater companies, the Joseph Jefferson Awards — known as ‘the Jeffs’ — are...
Reconsidering Morton Feldman In His Centennial Year
“In his time, many composers were preoccupied with structural rigor. His quietly sensual works were humanist, exploring the common yet profound experiences of distorted...
Eurovision Song Contest Is Expanding Into Asia
The Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026, with finals scheduled for November in Bangkok, has confirmed at least 10 countries as contestants: Thailand, South Korea,...
The World’s 100 Most Visited Museums In 2025: Some Surprises Among The Perennials
The Louvre is still no. 1, with the Vatican Museums a distant second; the National Museum in Seoul surpassed the British Museum to take...
Choreographer Ben Stevenson, Who Brought Houston Ballet To Prominence, Has Died At 89
"Known for the organic beauty, narrative drive and humor of his productions, (he) became the most famous ballet choreographer in Texas, and one of the...
Is There A New Rembrandt At The Art Institute Of Chicago?
A portrait, currently on loan to the Institute, in a UK collection that has long been dismissed as a workshop copy of an almost...
Officials Seize Property Worth $23 Million Allegedly Embezzled From Actress Ursula Andress
Italian authorities said Thursday they had seized €20 million of assets in Tuscany, including property, vineyards. and artworks, allegedly bought with money embezzled from...
A New Theory About Where The Book Of Kells Was Made
It’s been widely assumed that the 8th-century manuscript was copied and illuminated at St. Columba’s monastery on Scotland’s island of Iona — this despite...
Making Dance Into A Professional Team Sport, Like Basketball Or Football
“In its first official season, starting May 2 in New York City, the International Dance League is offering contracts to top-level dance teams and...
What Has Surprised The New York Times’ Lead Reporter On Trump’s Culture Wars
Jennifer Schuessler: “Ordinary Americans are far less interested in fighting about history than it might seem. People who work at historical sites, whether government-run...
PBS To Launch YouTube Documentaries Channel
“The channel will distribute more than 100 new videos annually, including feature-length and short documentaries from the PBS series Independent Lens, POV, Reel South and Voices as well...
Han Kang And Arundhati Roy Among Winners At National Book Critics Circle Awards
Nobel laureate Han Kang won the fiction category for We Do Not Part, while Karen Hao took nonfiction honors for Empire of A.I. and...
New American Operas Do Not Have To “Challenge” Audiences: John McWhorter
“One thing that could help turn things around is if opera companies offered audiences works in the language they speak (and) a musical language...
Boston Lyric Opera Has A Permanent HQ At Long Last
“The BLO has been something of a nomad after ending its relationship with the Shubert Theatre a decade ago. ... While the company steadily...
Salzburg Festival Fires Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser
“An Austrian pianist who turns 68 on Monday, Hinterhäuser became artistic director on Oct. 1, 2016. The festival announced in April 2024 that he had...
Despite Initial Denial From White House, Bill Maher Will Receive Mark Twain Prize For...
“After The Atlantic cited anonymous sources saying he was, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it ‘fake news.’ But today the Kennedy Center made it official.”...
Trinity Rep Names A New Artistic Director
Meredith McDonough, formerly associate artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville and, before that, director of new works at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, takes...
This World-Famous Concert Hall Lets Students In To Study While Musicians Play For Them
“The study sessions were first organized during the COVID-19 pandemic by Entree, the youth association of (Amsterdam’s) Concertgebouw, to help students improve their concentration...
Arts Funding By Local Governments In Britain Has Fallen By Half Since 2010
“Analysis by the Autonomy Institute shows spending has dropped from £1.19 billion in 2010 to £539 million in 2024 to 25. The data covers local authority...
The People Getting Falsely Accused Of Using AI Because They Write Too Well
Everyone is trying to figure out who is LLM and who is human, and sometimes we’re getting it wrong. In particular, people who learned...
How The London Review Of Books Is Making Money Despite Losing Circulation
The independently-owned title has seen sales decline from a post-pandemic high of 91,000 copies in 2021 to about 78,000 currently. But the LRB has...
One Of America’s Best Minimalist Art Collections Is Sitting In An Old Philadelphia Rowhouse
The collection, and the home near Rittenhouse Square, belonged to Henry McNeil Jr. (son of Tylenol magnate Henry Slack McNeil), who died last July at...
One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theaters Was Secretly Dissolved By Its Board, Say Actors
“’We were never notified,’ said Monifa Days, co-founding ensemble member (of Congo Square Theatre Company). ‘Our lawyers were never notified. How we found out...
