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In Search Of Two Lost Shakespeare Plays
We'll never know what scripts by the great playwright disappeared forever because they were never printed and their manuscripts didn't survive. Yet there is...
When Real Estate Developers Actually Help Dance Companies (Yes, It Can Happen!)
"It's true that developers’ motives are rarely altruistic: Many have found tax and other benefits to pairing up with dance companies. And not all...
Turkey Arrests Curator At American Museum Of Natural History For Allegedly Smuggling Dead Spiders...
"Lorenzo Prendini, an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum, was held by police at Istanbul Airport while allegedly trying to take about...
Things Are Still Dire For Hollywood Scriptwriters A Year After The Writers Guild Strike
"The Times checked in with multiple writers of varying experience levels spanning film and TV. … All said that they or their colleagues have...
Vatican Museums Staffers File Class Action Suit Against Vatican
"The complaint, dated April 23 and made public this weekend in Italian newspapers, alleged that staff faced health and security risks due to cost-saving...
Iranian Filmmaker Who Was Sentenced To Prison And Flogging Escapes Iran
"The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after he was sentenced to prison amid pressure over his latest film, The Seed...
Katharina Wagner Renewed For Five More Years Directing Bayreuth Festival
"Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with...
Climate-Protesting Vandals Go After The Magna Carta
"(Two octogenarians) entered the British Library in London on Friday morning and 'smashed the glass enclosure that surrounds the Magna Carta.' After this, the...
Rudy Giuliani Loses His New York Radio Show, Probably For Good
John Catsimatidis, the supermarket mogul and perennial New York state Republican candidate who owns news/talk radio station WABC-AM, canceled Giuliani's one-hour weekday radio show...
Melinda French Gates Leaves Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation To Start Her Own Philanthropy
She leaves the foundation, which she started in 2000 with then-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, three years after the pair announced their divorce....
The $20 Million Art Auction That Was Decided By Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors
In 2005, the Maspro Denkoh Corporation of Nagoya decided to sell its European art collection, which included Cézanne, Gauguin and Picasso, to fund further...
As These Medieval Tibetan Monasteries Began To Crumble, Local Community Members Learned How To...
Heavy rains brought by climate change have caused serious damage to the 14th-century rammed-earth monasteries and temples of Lo Manthang in far northern Nepal....
How Eight Dungeons And Dragons Nerds Built Themselves An Online Mini-Empire
"In nine years, the show (Critical Role), hosted on Twitch and YouTube, has become the team’s full-time job, spawning a transmedia kingdom of novels,...
Why Gregory Dolbashian Up And Moved His Dance Company To Dallas
"In the four years since making the seemingly counterintuitive decision to leave his native New York for Dallas — moving his DASH Ensemble dance...
The Turkish Government’s Relentless Campaign Against Author Elif Shafak
"Over the past two decades, she has become one of Turkish literature’s most attacked authors. … Shafak’s case is part of a wider trend...
If Sony And Apollo Buy Paramount Global, They Plan To Sell Off CBS And...
"The plan would include auctioning off CBS, cable channels like MTV and the Paramount Plus streaming service, said (sources). Paramount Pictures … would be...
San Diego Symphony’s $125 Million Concert Hall Renovation Is Nearly Complete
The soon-to-be-renamed venue "will now boast significantly improved acoustics, state-of-the-art new audio, visual and lighting systems, new aisles and seats angled to face the...
One Of The Great Black Broadway Musicals Premiered 50 Years Ago And Then Disappeared....
John McWhorter makes the case for Raisin — a 1973 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun with book by her former...
Have American Universities Forgotten What, And Whom, They’re For?
For years, the numbers of fully-employed faculty have fallen as universities use poorly-paid adjunct professors instead. Yet tuition prices keep soaring. Why? Because the...
Despite Boos And Protests, Israel Makes It To Eurovision Song Contest Final
"(Eden Golan) was one of 10 acts who made it through Thursday’s semifinal, which was decided by votes from Eurovision viewers around the world....
Yet Another Public Radio Station Is Offering Buyouts And Preparing For Layoffs
This time it's Southern California Public Radio, the entity that combines KPCC and the website LAist. All full- and part-time staffers in the newsroom...
The Prolific, Proud, Perverse Prince Of Latin American Literature
At 75, César Aira has written more than 100 books, has been translated into 37 languages, and has lately been tipped for a Nobel...
Some Museums In L.A. Are Trying An Experiment: Cutting Back On The Air Conditioning
"Museums have historically maintained strict, narrow ranges of temperatures and relative humidity since the British Museum created the standards around 100 years ago. New...
She’s Been Lighting Contemporary Dance In Downtown Manhattan For 46 Years
Carol Mullins, now 85, has been designing and operating the lighting for Danspace Project since 1978. "When people ask her why she has stayed...
A New Beckett Festival Is Coming To Liverpool
Co-curated by actor Adrian Dunbar, Beckett: Unbound 2024 is "a multiarts festival that juxtaposes familiar pieces by the Dublin-born author with new responses to...
