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Original Dancers In Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” Revive The Piece After Half A Century
“Nearly 50 years since that first performance in 1978, Meryl Tankard is getting the Kontakthof band back together. Now a choreographer, she has assembled nine of...
Vocal Cortex, A Choir For Recovering Survivors Of Stroke And Brain Injury
“The choir is part of a wellness program at (a D.C.) hospital that uses music to stimulate neurologic change in the brain and help patients with...
UK Bans Ye (Kanye West) From Entering Country
“The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash...
How Larry McMurtry Convinced E. Annie Proulx To Let Him Adapt “Brokeback Mountain” For...
“Proulx (said) she had already gotten ‘a couple of anything-you-want film tenders.’ But Larry had said the magic word: ‘West.’ Some would-be producers saw...
Betty Buckley, Broadway’s First Grizabella In “Cats”, Writes About The New Drag-Ball Production
“Cats has always been a ballroom: Distinct personalities enter the floor, presenting their style and story, and a community watches to see who commands...
Major Arts Institutions In Minneapolis-St. Paul Are (Mostly) Bouncing Back
After some very challenging years, the Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Minnesota Opera have all posted budget surpluses; while...
Can This New Theater For Magic Revive Chicago’s Magnificent Mile?
“There are a lot of maybes involved in The Hand & The Eye, the 36,000-square-foot magic-themed entertainment and dining complex set to open this...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Proactively Changed Material After Trump Returned To Office
“Unlike his posture toward the Smithsonian, Trump has not publicly commented on the USHMM’s content. … But two former museum employees who left amid...
Temple University’s Next Arts Partner: Opera Philadelphia
“Students will sit in on Opera Philadelphia rehearsals and attend master classes by opera artists, and emerging vocalists will have the opportunity to audition...
Trump White House Says Halting Construction Of Ballroom Is National Security Risk
“In a motion filed on Friday, US National Park Service lawyers say that the federal judge’s order to suspend construction of the new facility...
Clowns March Through Bolivia’s Capital To Protest New School Law
“The (fully-costumed) clowns gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate...
When Does Bach Cease To Be Bach? Or, What The Hell Did Jean Rondeau...
Next month the hipster harpsichordist is doing the cycle three different ways: the usual manner, for solo keyboard; arranged for strings, flute and continuo...
For Better And (Definitely) For Worse, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Life Reflected His Architecture
“As the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable once noted: ‘There is a kind of collective schadenfreude in the revelation of defects in great buildings and flaws...
NPR Moves Further Into Video With New Podcast
The network is launching the new video podcast and cross-platform show NPR Newsmakers, which will feature long-form interviews with some of NPR’s highest-profile reporters...
Norway’s Main Easter Pastime Is Going To A Rural Cabin And Reading Crime Novels
Ever since a publisher’s clever marketing trick in 1923, Norwegians have associated the period around Easter with crime fiction. The phenomenon is called påskekrim (Easter...
When Addiction And The War On Drugs Became Central Elements Of Crime Fiction
“Are they evil or are they sick? While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial...
Cyberattackers Strike Uffizi Galleries In Florence
The museums’ management acknowledged an attack earlier this year, but denied any major security breach or theft of data. The statement came after Corriere...
Wallace Shawn And Deborah Eisenberg Step In To Perform In Shawn’s Play On Three...
Shawn and Eisenberg, an author and actress who has been Shawn’s partner for five decades, performed with scripts in the Off-Broadway production of What...
Workers Who Built Monumental Hindu Temple In New Jersey Allege Abuse, Health Damage
The 185-acre Baps Swaminarayan Akshardham, completed in 2023 and known for its intricate carvings in white stone, has for years faced allegations of visa...
New Artistic Director At Bravo! Vail Music Festival
Composer Chris Rogerson will lead the summer festival in the Colorado resort town, taking over after the 16-year tenure of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Rogerson...
Smithsonian Board Seats Left Vacant Amid Pressure From Trump’s White House
“A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its...
Is The Historical Performance/Period Instrument Movement Still Controversial?
“Nearly half a century on, although performances on period instruments (let alone fortepianos) are hardly the norm, historically informed performance has increasingly moved toward...
Wallace Shawn On Reviving His Monologue “The Fever” In The Trump Era
“When I did it before, nobody was really explicitly saying the opposite of what I was saying. I was attacking implicit assumptions, unthought-through assumptions...
Denver’s Arts District Is Thriving. Here’s Who Keeps It Running And How.
“As of January, the RiNo Art District has split from the business and infrastructure groups it once operated alongside. Now, three separate entities share...
University Partnership Gives This Ballet Company’s Dancers 80% Off Tuition
After being in the company for a full year, any full-time member of Boston Ballet can take courses toward a degree from Northeastern University,...
