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This Indian State Is Home To The Thinking Person’s Bollywood
In recent years, the Malayalam-language cinema industry of Kerala — the state with the country's highest literacy rate and standard of living — has...
1,600 Years Of Nativity Scenes
The oldest surviving depictions of the baby Jesus in a manger, surrounded by animals and shepherds and parents and such, go back to 5th-century...
Where Will You Find The World’s Largest Dickens Festival? The Netherlands.
"Despite no known historical connection with the author, Deventer, in the eastern province of Overijssel, now plays host to … 950 volunteers … performing...
Mongolia’s Dilapidated Circus School Is Training Star Acrobats For The World (But Not For...
"'We are wanted all over the world, but we can’t even properly train in our own country,' said Gerelbaatar Yunden, a former acrobat and...
Post-COVID, Two New York City Performance Venues Use Design To Bring People Together
Los Angeles Times design columnist Carolina A. Miranda looks at how, despite exteriors that can seem intimidating, the new Perelman Performing Arts Center near...
The World’s Arts And Culture Agencies Give A Report On 2023
Based in Australia, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies represents public institutions from around the world whose mandate is to support...
2023 Was Disney’s Centennial Year. Why Was It Such A Flop?
"Pundits have been puzzling over the Mouse House’s annus horribilis for weeks, identifying several factors. A key one being that the COVID-19 pandemic got...
Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller, One Of The Met’s Great Interpreters Of “Trouser Roles,” Is Dead...
One of the Met's stalwarts of the 1950s and '60s (especially as Cherubino and Octavian), she performed so many male mezzo parts that her...
Banksy Put Up A New Artwork. It Took Half An Hour For Thieves To...
At noon last Friday. the anonymous street artist posted on social media that he'd installed a new piece — a stop sign with three...
How Jewish Immigrant Irving Berlin Created A Christmas Song That All Americans Could Embrace
"This was a new kind of Christmas carol. It didn't mention the birth of Jesus, angels or wise men." Bing Crosby sang it in...
How “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” Was Transformed From Morbid Movie Dirge Into...
The original lyrics written for the film Meet Me in St. Louis began "Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your...
A Pioneer Of Drag Queen Story Hour Launches Her Own Publishing Imprint
In 1998, Michelle Tea, who started the first series of events called "Drag Queen Story Hour," published her first novel with Semiotext(e), publisher of...
Ozy, The Defunct News Site That Wildly Inflated Reader Numbers, Sues Semafor And Ben...
"The shell of Carlos Watson's Ozy Media (has) filed a lawsuit against Semafor co-founder Ben Smith, his news site and his former outlet, BuzzFeed,...
An Afghan Radio Scriptwriter On The Day The Taliban Forced Her To Stop Working
"After our family tea, I remembered to switch on my phone. I saw a notification from my office WhatsApp group. My hands trembled as...
As Paramount Looks To Merge With Warner Bros. Discovery, It Gets A Bid To...
Paramount Global planned to sell the Black-oriented cable network earlier this year but backed off after deciding that the purchase offers were too low....
Francesco Ventriglia Appointed Artistic Director Of Calgary’s Alberta Ballet
The Italian-born choreographer was a principal at La Scala Ballet, created works for that company's ballet school, and founded his own company, Heliopolis, before...
Here’s The Successor To “Mao’s Last Dancer” At The Helm Of Queensland Ballet
Li Cunxin, who found fame beyond the dance world with the memoir and documentary with that title, announced in June that he's retiring as...
Countertenor And Convicted Sexual Assaulter David Daniels Expelled From AGMA
"This week (the union) released a letter of censure dated Nov. 20 in which Daniels was informed he was permanently barred from the guild....
What’s The Average Income Of Broadway Theatergoers?
Far higher than that of Americans as a whole, according to the Broadway League's demographic report on the 2022-23 season. Now we know why...
One Of Raphael’s Madonnas Is Partially De-Authenticated. (Partially?)
"A team led by scientists from England’s University of Bradford used artificial intelligence to determine that the face of Joseph in the Madonna della...
Outfest Was L.A.’s Oldest Film Festival. How Has It Ended Up Near Collapse?
"(The 41-year-old LGBTQ+ festival's) dramatic reversal of fortune began with a series of clashes between board members and the group's former executive director over...
A “Lord Of The Rings” Fan-Fiction Writer Sued The Tolkien Estate For Copyright Violation....
An author called Demetrious Polychron wrote and self-published a "pitch-perfect" (his word) sequel titled The Fellowship of the King. Then he sued Tolkien's estate...
The Tricky Business Of Translating A Play About Stanislavsky’s Company Into Russian (And Then...
Our Life In Art, by playwright Richard Nelson (the "Rhinebeck Panorama" cycle), is about the 1923 U.S. tour by Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater. The...
The Satanic Temple Made A Point About State Government Institutionalizing Religion. A “Christian Conservative”...
In response to the placement of a Nativity scene in the Iowa capitol, the Temple (per its usual practice) claimed equal representation and installed...
French President Macron, Failing To Read The Room, Defends Gérard Depardieu
Macron said that the 74-year-old star — facing multiple rape accusations and having been caught on camera sexually harassing a translator and making lewd...
