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Soprano Roberta Alexander Dead At 76
Active as a concert singer as well as in opera, she was for some years a mainstay at the Met, Covent Garden, Salzburg, Glyndebourne,...
Tim Curry At 79, Looking Forward Even After His Stroke
The actor who brought so much manic energy to Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror), Wadsworth the butler (Clue), and Pennywise the clown (Stephen King’s It)...
Actors’ Equity UK Threatens Mass Action Over AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Actors’ Images
“The warning came as … growing numbers of (union) members made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in...
In Extremely Rare Move, Met Opera Schedules More Performances Of “Kavalier & Clay” For...
The Mason Bates/Gene Scheer opera, whose ticket sales improved for each performance of this fall’s run (the last two selling out, despite widely divergent...
Colm Tóibín: Why I Set Up A Press To Publish László Krasznahorkai (And The...
“In 2006, when I came home all enthusiastic about his work, he still had no UK publisher. ... The view in London was that...
Ireland Will Make Its Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Permanent
Unfortunately, it’s not for all artists. There will be 2,000 stipends available, with applications opening in September of 2026 and qualified applicants (who may...
Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of...
“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any...
A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth
This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art...
Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended
The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day...
Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala
They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they...
Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company
The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I...
A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain
Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However,...
José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance
Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The...
Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling
“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” -...
How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées
In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine
Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96
“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a...
The Museum Specially Built For The Benin Bronzes Has Nothing But Clay Replicas. Why...
“About 150 original bronzes have been returned to Nigeria over the last five years. … Their public display inside the $25m state-of-the-art museum in...
Marc Maron Talks About The End Of His Podcast, One Of The Most Influential...
“There’s a part of me that feels a responsibility to these listeners. I get all kinds of emails, stuff that I would never have...
I Survived The Bombing Of Ukraine’s Largest Book Festival
Fiona Benson, an editor of Exeter University’s Ukrainian Wartime Poetry Project, was invited to BookForum in Lviv by Arthur Dron’, a poet and war hero. On...
Easter Islanders Always Said Their Moai Statues Walked To Their Places. New Research Says...
That’s not to say, mind you, that the moai walked by themselves. A new paper published by two archaeologists lays out, through observation and...
Public Radio Cuts Could Have A Disastrous Effect On Classical Music In America
Roughly 96% of the classical music on terrestrial radio in the U.S. is broadcast on public radio stations — and those stations often have...
What Are The Issues Behind The Threatened Broadway Strike?
The Broadway League, which represents Broadway producers and landlords, is currently in tense negotiations with two different unions: Actors’ Equity (performers and stage managers) and...
Unpublished Jack Kerouac Story Discovered In Mafia Boss’s Papers
“The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled ‘The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing’ and is dated 15 April...
Bernini’s Designs For The Louvre Were Too Much Even For Louis XIV
Yes, the favorite sculptor and architect of 17th-century Rome was the first designer whom the Sun King commissioned to make over the traditional Paris...
Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79
“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or...
