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Vienna Boys Choir Needed, And Got, A Government Bailout
"The Austrian government said Saturday that it is giving the country’s centuries-old Vienna Boys Choir 800,000 euros ($884,000) to help it out of severe...
America’s Oldest Working Actor, Chicago’s Mike Nussbaum, Has Died At 99
"Nussbaum’s films included Men in Black and Field of Dreams, but his primary business was being a Chicago stage actor. His credits were legion...
Peter Marks’s Farewell Column As The Washington Post’s Theater Critic
"For the most part, though, being a theater critic has been an extraordinary privilege. How many people have the opportunity to be transported by...
Standup Comedians Never Used To Have To Worry About Getting Fact-Checked (Poor Hasan Minhaj)
"'It's so bizarre to me,' says the Last Comic Standing finalist Laurie Kilmartin. 'Because when you look at how modern standup started, it was...
How Is Instagram Affecting Ballet Dancers’ Working Lives?
"Once, dancers were recognised purely on the merit of their performances as audience members didn’t have access to anything else. Yet 2023 couldn’t be...
2023’s Eleven Biggest Culture Controversies
Everybody hated Prince Harry's memoir, which nevertheless became the fastest-selling book in history. A country hit managed to divide much of America. A rock...
We Are All Born Slaves To The Rhythm: Study
Scientist Henkjan Honing and his colleagues have found that even newborns have the ability to recognize a beat and to notice when a regular...
The 10 Best Trailers Of 2023 (Never Mind The Movies Themselves)
"In a world … where moviegoing isn’t what it once was and blockbusters run three hours … a great trailer gets audiences motivated to...
Togo Turns An Old German Colonial Palace Into The Country’s First Art Park
"If the former colonizers of Togo saw the Palais de Lomé, the country’s first major art and culture park, they might have found it...
Lit Hub’s Ten Biggest Literary Stories Of 2023
An author puts a hold on releasing a Russia-set novel, private equity buys one of the big US publishers, controversies break out over the...
For The Arts In Metro Philly, The Recovery Is Mixed And Uneven
Preliminary findings from an upcoming report reveal that only a third of responding institutions say audience engagement is back to 2019 levels; for performing...
In Pittsburgh, The Performing Arts’ Post-COVID Comeback Is Taking Its Time
"Despite positive attendance numbers in the spring and fall, … several of the city’s larger organizations … are in a similar boat — single...
South African Playwright Mbongeni Ngema, Who Created The Hit Musical “Sarafina!”, Killed In Car...
In addition to Sarafina!, which became a worldwide hit, Ngema is remembered internationally for the 1981 satire Woza Albert, which won over 20 awards...
Notable Literary Leaders Who Passed In 2023
Fay Weldon, Russell Banks, Charles Simic, Kenzaburo Oe, Dubravka Ugresic, D.M. Thomas, Martin Amis, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Gottlieb, Milan Kundera, Edith Grossman, Louise Glück,...
The Royal Tapestry Factory That Worked With Francisco Goya Is Still Weaving Today
"The factory was opened in 1721 by Spain’s King Felipe V. He brought in Catholic craftsmen from Flanders, which had been part of Spain’s...
“I’m Under No Delusions That I’m Suddenly A Broadway Playwright,” Says Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
"This is really fun, and I'm super honored. But I feel like I'm under no delusions that my life is different. I'm still going...
Meet Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” For 2024
"Electric performances, thought-provoking choreography, buzzy bodies of work — the artists on our annual list of dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies poised for a...
This Village Girl From A Distant Russian Republic Could Be The Met’s Next Superstar...
"It hasn’t been an easy journey from (Bashkortostan) to New York. Along the way, (Aigul) Akhmetshina had to overcome multiple setbacks, including failures in...
With Superhero Movies Now Losing Big Money, Where Can Hollywood Turn For Big Box...
"The rosiest spin you can put on this sudden collapse is that it’s the equivalent of a stock-market correction. … But it’s not clear...
I Tried To Be A North Korean Novelist. I Failed. Repeatedly.
One of the Japan-born ethnic Koreans who emigrated to North Korea in the 1970s, Kim Ju-sŏng lived there for 28 years, working as a...
With This Year’s Muddy Debacle, Was Burning Man Defeated By Its Own Success?
Having grown from about 4,000 attendees in 1991, the festival now caps attendance at 80,000, many of whom are just too damn rich. Having...
Greece Will “Fill The Void” If Britain Returns The Parthenon Marbles, Says Culture Minister
"Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would never go empty. 'Our position is clear,' she said. 'Should the sculptures be...
Poland’s New Government Puts State TV And Radio Into Liquidation
This doesn't mean the outlets will stop operating, as the term "liquidation" would mean in English-speaking countries. The move is one of the few...
Artist Pope.L Has Died At 67
"Across the past four decades, (his works) alluded to the condition of Black Americans without outright stating what they were trying to communicate. (His)...
The Tribune Names Its Chicagoans Of The Year In The Arts For 2023
Among the honorees are the founder-director of what's now the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence, the 24-year-old jazz pianist who...
