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Sticker Shock: Renovation Of Stuttgart’s Opera House Could Cost €2 Billion
The renovation and expansion of the venue will take four years longer than originally planned, and the cost, originally projected at under €1 billion,...
Philadelphia’s BalletX Is Bigger, Busier, And More Stable Than Ever
Thanks to a major bequest from this past summer, the company — founded 18 years ago as a shoestring summer operation — has moved...
At 77, Playwright David Hare Is In A Hurry
"I have written three new plays that are going to be on in different places and I have done that partly because of my...
Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue Will Close After 41 Years
The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March...
Hulu Series About Amanda Knox Films In City Where It All Happened, And Locals...
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted...
Cleveland Voters Pass Cigarette Tax Increase To Fund Arts
Ballot Issue 55, which was approved by Cuyahoga County voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin, more than doubles the existing surcharge on tobacco products....
The Bells Of Notre-Dame In Paris Are Reunited
"The bronze bells of the Notre-Dame Cathedral have not pealed together since 2019, when a furious blaze consumed the centuries-old landmark right before the...
There Will Be No Liberal Equivalent Of Joe Rogan
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more...
Painter Frank Auerbach, 93
The child of Auschwitz victims, he was sent to Britain by the Kindertransport project and studied in London. After years of hardship, he got...
Huge Art Forgery Enterprise Busted By Italian Police
"The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani,...
The Importance Of “The Importance Of Being Earnest”
"People have been arguing about the nature of the play ever since its 1895 premiere. Wilde himself described it as 'a delicate bubble of...
MacArthur “Genius” Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Has Commissioned A Multi-Composer Portrait Of America
The project, titled "This Is America," is a collection of 28 works Gandelsman has been commissioning, performing and recording since 2020. He gave the...
Even After 30 Years, People Talk About (And Buy Tickets For) Matthew Bourne’s Gender-Switched...
"Certain people found it difficult to accept Swan Lake in a new light," says Bourne. "There was some ballet snobbery when people would say...
Meet The Maestros Of Evil Doll Movies
In a Welsh seaside town, Geoff and Lawrence Fowler are turning out a series of surprisingly good low-budget features (e.g., Jack in the Box)...
Film Festival In Istanbul Cancelled After Daniel Craig Film “Queer” Is Banned
"Streaming platform Mubi has cancelled its long-planned Mubi Fest Istanbul at the eleventh hour after (the local district) governor banned a screening of Luca...
Voters In El Paso Veto Funding For Downtown Arena/Performance Venue
"With the approval of Proposition A, voters in El Paso have formally revoked the city’s authority to issue the remaining $128.5 million in bonds...
King Tut’s Iconic Funerary Mask Was Probably First Made For Someone Else, Say Researchers
How could anyone tell this after all this time? The answer, say Egyptologists at the University of York, has been right in front of...
A Pulitzer Prize Winner Is Adapting “Fahrenheit 451” For The Stage
Martyna Majok, who won the Pulitzer for drama in 2018 with her play Cost of Living, will write the script. The project is in...
It’s Only Been Three Days, And “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Back On The Bestseller...
Since the presidential election results became clear early Wednesday morning, Margaret Atwood's novel has been high on Amazon's list of top-selling books, as are...
India Lifts Ban On Import Of Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” — For A Surprising Reason
And that reason is bureaucracy at its finest. - The Guardian
There’s No Water In The Fountain Of Trevi in Rome, And Tourists Are Bummed
"The city drained the fountain to clean it ahead of the Vatican’s Jubilee Year. ... Visitor access to the site is currently via a...
Sandra Cisneros Is Turning “The House On Mango Street” Into An Opera
The author of the beloved young adult novel is writing her own libretto, with music by composer Derek Bermel. The work just had its...
Joseph Rykwert, Architectural Historian Who Fought Bland Functionalism And Pushed For Good Urban Design,...
"His books and his teaching changed the understanding of his discipline and helped to move the design and planning of cities and buildings away...
This Play Is Part Puzzle, Part Real-Life Video Game, Part Grief Ritual
"Great Gold Bird is set across three locations, (starting with) audience members' homes. Where to go next is revealed via the narrative — an...
Can Audio Description For The Visually Impaired Work For Dance As It Does For...
Stopgap, a contemporary dance company which integrates variously disabled and neurodiverse performers, has a piece titled Lived Fiction in which audio description is integral...
