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DePaul University, Strapped For Cash, Closes Historic Theater In Downtown Chicago
It’s unclear what will happen to the 116-year-old, 1,400-seat Merle Reskin Theatre. It has landmark status, however, and won’t be demolished. - Chicago Sun-Times
One More Bay Area Theater Company Closes Up Shop
“Central Works, which has been making new plays in Berkeley for 36 years, plans to close at the end of its 2026 season with...
San Diego Mayor’s Proposed Budget Cuts Arts Funding By 85%
“The proposed budget (reduces arts spending) from $13.8 million to just about $2 million, eliminating all funds under the city’s two grant-making arms. …...
Former Manager Of Fresno Arts Council Confesses To Embezzling $1.8 Million
Suliana Caldwell will plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and pay restitution. She admitted to making repeated unauthorized transfers of city taxpayer...
BBC Announces Mass Layoffs
“The BBC said Wednesday that it plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget — £500 million ($677 million)...
Entire Teams Are Being Eliminated In Disney’s Mass Layoffs
Among those let go are 20 people from the company's publicity departments, as well as the entire home entertainment and EPK teams. On the...
The Met Museum Is In The Middle Of A $1.5 Billion Renovation
One wing has already been renovated; another is being built; galleries will be renewed and rehung; new retail and dining areas are coming; infrastructure...
British Government Approves Purchase Of Telegraph Newspaper
“Axel Springer’s planned £575 million takeover of Telegraph Media Group has been approved by the UK Government. It is still awaiting regulatory approval in...
A Dynastic Succession In The Kabuki Theater World Is A Dramatic Affair
“Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the traditional Japanese artform, … and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and...
France Passes Law To Expedite Return Of Looted Artworks
“The bill aims to simplify the return of cultural property taken illegally from France’s former colonies, particularly focusing on items taken between 1815 and...
At This Point, Alec Baldwin Just Wants To Retire
The accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, the two (unsuccessful) prosecutions in New Mexico, finishing the film in another state...
Move Over, Nollywood, Nigeria Has A Second Thriving Movie Industry
Nigeria’s film ecosystem is known mostly for Nollywood, the industry headquartered in Lagos. In the largely Muslim north of the country, however, there’s Kannywood,...
Philadelphia Ballet Gives Its Long-Awaited New Home A Test Run
“Dancers danced at the company’s new North Broad Street building for the first time. Even as construction workers continued their own choreography of spackling and power-driving...
Ex-COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Pleads Not Guilty To Theft Charges
“On Tuesday, during (Brady) Lum’s arraignment in federal court in Atlanta, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia accused Lum of...
This 95-Second Scene Change At The Met Opera Is An Astounding Feat Of Coordination
In the company’s staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, seven stage managers, four prop masters, and a big flock of stagehands transform the set...
Kennedy Center Boss: See? We Really Do Need To Renovate!
“Matt Floca, the new executive director and COO, is leading tours this month that show water damage and intrusion to expansion joints, marble slabs...
Hampshire College Will Shut Down At End Of Year
“Founded in 1965, and opening its doors to students five years later as a campus determined to ‘radically reimagine liberal arts education,’ the small...
Performing Arts Touring In England Is “In Crisis” And Needs “Radical Rethink”: Report
“A report commissioned by Arts Council England finds that touring is ‘in crisis’, though ‘not entirely broken’, given some parts of the sector, such...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is Saved, Three Weeks Before It Was To Close
“The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofit parent organization of The Baltimore Banner, reached an agreement with Block Communications to acquire the I, which was slated...
Other Legacy U.S. Newspapers Which Have Gone Nonprofit
So far, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the fourth large one (not including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which remains for-profit itself though it is owned by...
The Trump-As-Jesus Image Conveyed More Than He Realized: Philip Kennicott
“Among those messages: a palpable sense of desperation. In the rapid and angry response to the meme, one sensed a coalition beginning to crack,...
Performing “A Streetcar Named Desire” In “Found Spaces” All Across The U.S.
“Featuring four actors, a sparse set, and no props, … this production has been performed since 2023 on all manner of improvised stages. An...
LGBTQ Bookstores Had Been Slowly Disappearing For Years, Now There’s A New Generation Of...
“The number of LGBTQ+-focused bookstores in the U.S. has slowly but steadily increased over the past five years. While this new generation of booksellers...
Australia’s Most Controversial Exhibition Of Indigenous Art Opens After Three-Year Delay
The major exhibition “Ngura Puḻka – Epic Country,” was supposed to open at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2023. It was almost entirely...
Sid Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
A puppeteer since childhood, Sid, with his younger brother Marty (who died 2½ years ago), produced H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos,...
