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Soprano Patricia Racette Is Next Artistic Director Of Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Racette has a long history with the company: she first performed there in 1993 and has returned numerous times since; she made her debut...
Percival Everett’s “James” Was Not Initially One Of The Pulitzer Fiction Finalists
Here’s what happens when the Pulitzer board either (a) considers none of the three finalists submitted by the jury in a category a worthy...
Houston Ballet Selects A Baryshnikov Protégée As Its New Executive Director
Sonja Kostich studied at Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and was 17 when he invited her to join ABT. She went on to dance...
Trying Out A New Finale For “Don Giovanni” — Mozart’s Requiem
At Berlin's Komische Oper, stage director Kirill Serebrennikov has replaced the opera’s moralizing final sextet with an epilogue: a solo dancer represents the dead...
Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Subverted Media Messages, Is Dead At 78
“Hosts of video artists … owe a debt to Birnbaum, who found clever ways of upending the one-way stream of information that pours forth...
Juilliard Dance Division Names A New Director
“Melissa Toogood, a Bessie Award-winning dancer who was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its final years, succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who...
What Will Be On Display In The New LACMA? Four Curators Reveal Their Plans
“The discussion offered a glimpse into the animated debate that the museum’s 45 curators have been engaged in over the last five years, reimagining...
Second City Actors In Chicago Threaten Strike
“Performers and stage managers at Chicago’s venerable comedy venue The Second City are threatening to strike if they are unable to reach an agreement...
California Governor Proposes $7.5 Billion In Federal Tax Incentives For Film Industry
“Just a day after Donald Trump revealed his plan to impose 100% tariffs on ‘any and all’ films produced in ‘foreign lands,’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he wants...
Senior NEA Officials Resign Amid Trump’s Mass Grant Cancellations
“Among those leaving the agency are directors overseeing grants for dance, design, folk and traditional arts, museums and visual arts, and theater. Also departing...
2025 Pulitzer Prize For Music Goes To Susie Ibarra For “Sky Islands”
It is, says the Pulitzer committee, “a work about ecosystems and biodiversity, that challenges the notion of the compositional voice by interweaving the profound...
“Purpose” By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize For Drama
This is his first Pulitzer, though he has been a finalist twice before. The production, directed by Phylicia Rashad, originated at Steppenwolf in Chicago...
Bloomberg CityLab Architecture Critic Alexandra Lange Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“The Pulitzer board praised (her work) ‘for graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural...
2025 Pulitzers For Literature Go To Percival Everett, Kathleen DuVal, Tessa Hulls
Percival Everett’s James continued its run of awards with the fiction prize, while Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won for...
Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes
“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want...
Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE)...
Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the...
Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the...
Sotheby’s Prepares To Auction Off Jewels Revered As Relics Of The Buddha
“The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and...
When Immersive Wall Street Play “Life And Trust” Closed Without Notice, Cast And Crew...
The show was staffed with early-career, non-unionized theatermakers, and they received no severance pay or other compensation when producers abruptly ended the run. When...
The City Of Austin Finally Has An Arts Department
“As of Feb. 14, the city has a real, big city-style department, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment. After years of performers,...
Ari Emanuel Buys Frieze Art Fairs From His Own Company
“Beverly Hills sports and entertainment company Endeavor is selling contemporary art organization Frieze to a new events and experiences company launched by superagent and...
Trump Issues Executive Order Blocking All Funding For NPR And PBS
“The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies ‘to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS’ and further requires that...
“Immature”: San Francisco Symphony Management Publicly Slams Musicians Over Contract Negotiations
Just days after musicians leafleted the audience at Michael Tilson Thomas’s last-ever concerts, management released an open letter pointing out that the orchestra is...
UK Culture Secretary Rules Out Taxing Streaming Services To Fund British TV Dramas
“British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has firmly rejected proposals for a levy on streaming platforms operating in the U.K., despite recent recommendations from a parliamentary committee suggesting such...
