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Combat Choreographers Explain The Rules Of Fighting Onstage
"Theatrical fight directors have a cut-throat job. At extreme pace, in line with other people’s creative vision, they must devise high-intensity fights that can...
San Francisco Ballet’s Dancers Threaten Strike Just As “Nutcracker” Season Begins
"After five months of tense negotiations, the American Guild of Musical Artists says it has made limited progress in securing a new collective bargaining...
What The Heck Is Going On In The Arts Sector In Slovakia?
Explaining the culture war being fought by right-wing nationalist prime minister Robert Fico's government — particularly his culture minister, former television host Martina Šimkovičová...
Staff Threaten Mass Resignation At Slovak National Gallery
As anger grows over interference by the right-wing government's minister of culture, former TV host Martina Šimkovičová, five top curators have resigned following an...
More Cities Should Have Places Like Dallas’s Chapel Of Thanksgiving
The scroll-shaped structure, designed in 1976 by Philip Johnson and illuminated inside with the ceiling's beautiful spiral of stained-glass windows by artist Gabriel Loire,...
Make Thousands In Extra Income By Republishing Public Domain Books! (Not Really.)
"The theory is simple. Countless classic works of literature have fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, granting normal people the right...
Jonathan Franzen Shares His Journal About The Agonizing Process Of Writing “The Corrections”
Adam Moss: "(it) is full of notes-to-self that provide a real-time map of what was going through his mind. … It’s rare for a...
Why Choreographer Kyle Abrahams Is Dancing Again Despite His Stage Fright
"Throughout his career, he has struggled with stage fright, he said, especially when dancing in groups. ... But for “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful,”...
Isabella Rossellini On Being A Major “Nepo Baby”
Says the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, "Of course it opens the door, because people are curious to see you....
Bronze Cast Of Leonardo’s Only Wax Sculpture Is For Sale For $100 Million
"Silverpoint Holdings, the current owners, are now offering the bronze cast for sale through Art Encounter, a Las Vegas gallery led by father-son duo...
Jim Abrahams, Dead At 80, One Of The Trio Behind The Funniest Film Ever...
"With his childhood friends Jerry and David Zucker, Abrahams formed the filmmaking trio, called Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, and popularized the spoof genre of...
Despite Layoffs And Programming Cuts, Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio Is Still Mired In Debt
"Capital Public Radio released Thursday its financial statement for a year marked by financial turmoil, providing the first detailed breakdown — since the release...
Disney Co. To Pay $43 Million To Settle Claims Of Unequal Pay For Women
"The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $43.3 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit brought by a group of female employees who alleged...
Good News From Cleveland Orchestra: Finances And Audience Numbers Are Healthy
The orchestra's 2023-24 annual report shows a sixth consecutive year of a balanced budget as well as endowment growth of 11% to $296 million;...
London’s Old Vic Theatre Names Rupert Goold Artistic Director
The two-time Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee will assume the role at the beginning of 2026 after what will have been 12 years...
Mexico’s New President Wants To Fight The Popularity Of Ballads About Drug Lords
"Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she has a plan to reduce the popularity of 'narcocorridos.' … (She) vowed to launch a campaign to...
Historic Town Halls In Australia Are Becoming Low-Cost Performance Venues
"Beautiful brick early 20th-century town halls were once venues for council meetings, award nights and country dances. But in recent decades many have been...
How An Iranian Director Made His Award-Winning Film In Secret — And Was Then...
Mohammed Rasoulof had been imprisoned for his work before, and he knew that his The Seed of the Sacred Fig — which ultimately got...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals At DC’s National Gallery And National Archives Sentenced To Prison
The leader of the group Declare Emergency, Donald Zepeda, got 24 months for destruction of government property, while group member Jackson Green got 18...
Australia’s Leading Dictionary Declares “Enshittification” 2024’s Word Of The Year
Macquarie Dictionary defines the word as "the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service...
Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of The Year Is “Demure” (?)
The word saw an enormous spike in searches on the site in August, thanks to a TikTok video by a creator named Jools Lebron...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Go After NPR, And She Might Just Get The...
The Georgia Congresswoman has been tapped by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new House subcommittee working with the pair's not-yet-created Department...
Janet Suzman On Returning Home To Direct “Otello” In Apartheid South Africa
"It was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. ... We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The...
Breyten Breytenbach, Author And Activist Against Apartheid, Is Dead At 85
"(He) was a celebrated wordsmith, a leading voice in literature in Afrikaans — an offshoot of Dutch that was developed by white settlers (in...
Former Shen Yun Dancer Sues Company, Alleging Abuse Of Young Performers
"The lawsuit brought by Chang Chun-Ko in White Plains federal court sought unspecified damages on behalf of Chang and other alleged victims of Shen...
