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English National Opera Confirms That It’s Moving To Manchester
"The company had a shortlist of five places where it was considering setting up a new headquarters, with Manchester, the biggest city in Europe...
Ending Turbulent Period, Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints New Director For Its Famed Music...
Julian Wachner, who made the historic church into a major force in New York's concert life, was fired in March 2022 for behavior "inconsistent...
The Quest To Recreate Tyrian Purple, Once The Most Expensive Pigment On Earth
"In a small garden hut in north-eastern Tunisia, just a short distance from what was once Carthage, one man has spent most of the...
To This The Book-Banners Have Come: Boycotting Froot Loops
The right-wing account Libs of TikTok claims "Kellogg's wants to indoctrinate your children with breakfast cereal." The Dank Night tweeted "Would you like a...
Complexions Contemporary Ballet On The Cusp Of Turning 30
"On the cusp of celebrating their company’s milestone anniversary, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, who co-founded the New York-based (company) in 1994, still have...
Has The Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Musical Diplomacy” To China Really Made A Difference?
In a Q&A, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns says that yes, it has — even the recent visit by only 14 musicians (following...
Gwyneth Paltrow — Is She Really A Performance Artist?
"Parking the new-age woo-woo momentarily (the seven-day detoxes, the walking barefoot to cure depression, the vagina-steaming), there is a provocation here or at the...
Can The Oscars Telecast Solve Its Dwindling Viewership Problem By Starting Earlier? We’ll Find...
"The 96th Oscars will begin one hour early, with the official show starting at 7 p.m. Eastern for the first time, ABC said Thursday....
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Emergency Fundraising Campaign Was More Successful Than It Dared Hope
In August, the Bay Area's third-largest theater company announced that it needed to raise $3 million by November or it would have to cancel...
Now It’s Official: Valery Gergiev Is The General Director Of The Bolshoi Theater (As...
After Izvestiya reported this story two weeks ago, both Gergiev himself and outgoing director Vladimir Urin backed away from it, though without an outright...
Federal Judge Blocks Montana’s TikTok Ban
"Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by...
The Abrupt, Unexplained Departure Of The CEO At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Has Alienated...
"They are expressing shock that Colette Pierce Burnette would serve just 15 months in the role, especially since they said the Indianapolis newcomer was...
“No Opera On A Dead Planet!”: Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Disrupt The (Other) Met
On Thursday (Nov. 30), during Act II of Wagner's Tannhäuser, as the characters were singing about a natural spring, activists on each side of...
“A Variety Show In Human Form”: Billy Crystal Knows Almost Everyone And Can Do...
"(He) somehow managed to know nearly every significant cultural figure of the past half-century. Mickey Mantle confided in him. … Martin Scorsese taught him...
The YouTuber Who Ended Up As Your Favorite Pop Star’s Favorite Choreographer
"Under the name @seanalator, Sean Bankhead built a YouTube channel to showcase his unique style; a routine set to Beyoncé’s 'Run The World (Girls)'...
Don’t Like Music? Of Any Kind? There’s A Name For People Like That.
"That’s not a matter of preference, such as not caring for sports or pets; it’s a pathological condition. Accordingly, it’s been given one of...
The 19th-Century Science Fiction Novel That Inspired A Communist Utopian Movement In America
"Étienne Cabet's fictional 1840 travelogue, Voyage en Icarie (Travels in Icaria), … was so popular and affecting that it led hundreds of French citizens...
How Cirque Du Soleil Became The Backbone Of Live Entertainment In 21st-Century Las Vegas
The French-Canadian company ... opened its first permanent show, Mystère, at Treasure Island three decades ago. … Cirque has since grown into a billion-dollar...
As Newspapers Drop Their Editorial Cartoonists, Nonprofit Newsrooms Are Hiring Them
As the CEO of the San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource says, "People want to ‘see’ more in the news, as is evidenced by the...
A New Public Radio Show Aims For America’s Center, Geographically And Politically
Jeremy Hobson, the creator of the weekly evening show called The Middle, "found much of modern public radio’s heavily produced, pre-recorded nature grating, as...
Actress Frances Sternhagen, 93
She's known to wider audiences for playing formidable mothers in the series ER, Cheers, Sex in the City, and The Closer, but her greatest...
After $167 Million in Renovation And Asbestos Removal, Bristol, England Has An Excellent New/Old...
After a baby seagull under the roof dislodged a bunch of asbestos in 2017, what was then a very decrepit Colston Hall was closed...
London’s Royal Court Theatre Opens An Online Archive Of Every Play Ever Staged There
"Almost 2,000 plays by more than 1,000 writers are accessible on the theatre’s Living Archive, along with lists of their casts and directors. Vicky...
Can We Just Do Away With The Genre of Literary Fiction?
"Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would...
Who Says We Can’t Write New Music In A Thoroughly Baroque Style?
"Nuova Pratica, a group of up-and-coming performer-composers who aim to re-open the book on Baroque composition, … reject the idea that what they do...
