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Justin Peck And Patricia Delgado On Choreographing “Buena Vista Social Club” Together
Delgado: “Working on so many projects in the supporting role to Justin has given me such an understanding of his style and his pace....
Hugh Jackman And Sonia Friedman Launch Transatlantic Theatre Production Partnership
The Hollywood and Broadway superstar actor and the West End and Broadway super-producer, working in partnership with director Ian Rickson, have formed a joint...
Canadian Actor Writes About Her Two-Week Detention At U.S. Border
“I told them I would pay for my flight home and asked when I could leave. No answer. Then they moved me to another...
Why Robert Frost’s Poetry Became Uncool, Especially Among Literary Types
“This has a lot to do with the fetishization of what’s difficult, especially as both poetry and criticism professionalized. … (Ordinary people) understand the...
Come To The Cabaret Workshop
Reporter Elysa Gardner looks in on some master classes designed to hone young performers’ skills in delivering song lyrics, improvisation and scat singing, assembling...
Toronto Gets A New Venue For Theatre And Opera
The companies Tapestry Opera and Nightwood Theatre are the anchor tenants at the Jackman Performance Centre, which includes a flexible performance space as well...
Former FBI Lead Investigator Reveals His Theory About Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
“Retired agent Geoffrey Kelly, who led the investigation into the (1990) thefts for more than two decades, recently (said) he suspects the initial plan ... was...
Writer-Director Arrested For Cheating Netflix For Show That Never Aired
“A Hollywood writer-director was arrested Tuesday on charges that he swindled $11 million from Netflix for a sci-fi show that never aired, instead steering...
Two Convicted In Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet
The satirical artist’s piece, titled America, was stolen in September of 2019 while on display at an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in England. Michael...
There’s A Contemporary Dance Boom In Ireland
Two decades ago, despite the strength of traditional Irish dancing, the Republic had no national ballet or dance company, a handful of independent troupes...
The Pub Has Become One Of Ireland’s Major Cultural Exports
The Irish Pub Company has created over 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries, in places from Berlin to Bahrain to Nigeria to Novosibirsk...
“The Acoustics Are Perfect”: Berkeley Gets A New Concert Hall
Hertz Hall, the existing classical venue at UC-Berkeley, seats 600; it wasn’t uncommon for some concerts to attract 100 people or fewer, but there...
Two Major Theater Figures Are Working On A New James Taylor Musical
Tony- and Pulitzer-winning actor-playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County and The Minutes) is writing the story and book for the jukebox show, titled Fire...
The Rise Of Legislation That Could Make Librarians Criminals
A wave of proposed state laws that would hold librarians criminally liable for the presence of any material in their libraries’ collections deemed “obscene”...
Meet The Man The Met Hired To Locate Looted Objects In Its Collection
“As the Met’s head of provenance research, a new position created last May, … (Lucian) Simmons (has) a job to correct earlier errors, to prevent new...
“Emotionally, Socially, Incredibly Stupid”: Re-Examining The Pharma Mogul Who Created The Barnes Foundation
Blake Gopnik: “I’m not sure that we really understood the contradictions at the heart of Albert Barnes, the fact that he could be just...
Staff Cuts At Britain’s Tate Galleries
“Tate is cutting 7% of its workforce as the British arts institution seeks to address a funding deficit left over from the pandemic. …...
The New Yorker Fires Art Critic Jackson Arn
The magazine parted ways with Arn, who replaced the late Peter Schjeldahl in 2023, after receiving complaints about his inappropriate behavior at the publication’s...
Public Radio Legend Diane Rehm Ends 52-Year Career At Her Home Station
The 88-year-old host has taken a buyout offer from WAMU, the DC-based NPR outlet where she started her radio career as a volunteer producer...
Trump Begins Shutdown Of Voice Of America
“A White House statement said the order would ‘ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda’, and included quotes from politicians...
Send In The Clowns: This City Reduced Traffic-Related Deaths By Putting Mimes Amidst The...
In the 1990s, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus replaced hundreds of corrupt traffic cops with a few dozen mimes. Armed with nothing but signs that...
Forget 1215 And “Bad King John” — Here’s The Real Magna Carta
The “Great Charter” signed by John of England and his barons lasted less than three months before they were back at war with each...
Steven McRae On Coming Back From A Ballet Star’s Worst Nightmare
The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people —...
How And Why Did Trauma Narratives Become Ubiquitous?
“You need only look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a...
The Persian National Epic Becomes An Extravaganza Of Shadow Puppetry
“The show” — Song of the North, adapted from the medieval Persian epic poem Shahnameh — “is mind-dizzyingly complex, involving 483 puppets, 208 animated...
