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You’d Think Russian Censors Would Have Shut This Play Down. But It’s A Huge...
“When an obscure play called The Kholops opened in St. Petersburg in 2024, many Russians raced to see it, fearful that the authorities would...
Despite Trump Administration Attacks, NEH Has Just Given $75 Million In Grants
“The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants — $75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US’s...
Director Tina Packer, Founder Of Theater Troupe Shakespeare & Co., Is Dead At 87
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s...
Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book
“I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and...
Zubin Mehta Cancels All Of His Performances In Israel This Year
The conductor, who was music director of the Israel Philharmonic for 39 years, retiring in 2020, said his decision to withdraw from concerts there...
Starchitect Firm Snøhetta Accused Of Firing Employees For Unionizing
“In a complaint issued on Friday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Snøhetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they...
Netflix Changes Its Warner Bros. Bid To All-Cash
“Netflix’s all-cash offer of $27.75 per share replaces its previous offer of $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix common stock per share. The...
Martha Graham Dance Company Is Latest To Cancel Kennedy Center Performances
The oldest dance company in the US had been scheduled to perform at the DC venue as part of its centennial tour. The brief...
Harry Blitzstein, The “Consummate L.A. Painter,” Is Dead At 87
“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of...
A Post-Fiasco Reset At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
That fiasco, during 2024-25, featured the firing of the dancers, loss of municipal funding, and a government-ordered overhaul of governance and employment practices. Now,...
How Boulder’s Only Studio For Young Competition Dancers Collapsed
Last month, Kinesis Dance, rebranded earlier that year as Frequency Dance, abruptly shut down. Preceding that closure was a long series of financial irregularities,...
Scottish Government Accused Of “Eroding” Nation’s Culture Due To Standstill Funding
“Arts industry leaders have accused the Scottish Government of ‘eroding’ the culture sector after leaving its national performing companies” — Royal Scottish National Orchestra,...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Editorial Changes At Military Newspaper Stars And Stripes
“The Pentagon said Thursday that it is changing the independent military newspaper … so it concentrates on ‘reporting for our warfighters’ and no longer...
We Have Quite Enough Visitors, Thank You, Says Director Of Madrid’s Prado
“The Prado does not need a single visitor more. We are comfortable with 3.5 million,” (Miguel Falomir) said. ... “A museum can collapse due to...
How Salman Rushdie Survived The Knife Attack That Cost Him His Eye
“How does one spend 20 years training themselves not to be afraid, only to be reminded that they should have been scared all along?...
UK Theatre Company Forced To Cancel New York Festival Run Because Visas Were “Paused”
The touring troupe Quarantine was to perform its midday-to-midnight piece 12 Last Songs this weekend as part of the Under the Radar festival of...
Making Opera From The Most Bizarre Of New York’s Avant-Garde Playwrights
Composer Michael Gordon on the late Richard Foreman’s script for What to Wear: “It’s a piece with four Madeline Xs. They’re trying to find...
This Red-State Public Radio/TV Network Says It’s Getting Along Fine Despite Loss Of Federal...
South Carolina ETV/South Carolina Public Radio lost $3.2 million — 10% of total revenue — in annual funding when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s...
Breakthrough In Case Of Stolen Louvre Jewels
“Investigators say they have traced the thieves to an underground parking garage where they temporarily stashed the imperial jewels. The surveillance footage of the...
Turning A Video Game Into Immersive Theater
That’s what Punchdrunk, the éminence grise of immersive companies, is doing at its southeast London headquarters. Lander 23 is an IRL multiplayer game in...
Jane-Ites On The Dance Floor: Austen And “Bridgerton” Fans Are Reviving Regency-Style Balls
With period dress and steps learned from contemporary manuals (which include notation of the steps), historical dance societies in Britain gather in ballrooms to...
How Bennett Cerf Got Truman Capote To Start — And Then Finish — “In...
“When people met Capote, Bennett admitted, they often were inclined ‘to laugh,’ but ‘don’t let that first impression fool you.’ Nonetheless, even armed with...
There’s A New Generation In Charge At London’s Royal Opera
Following on Antonio Pappano’s widely-praised 22-year reign as the company’s music director, 44-year-old Jakub Hrůša has taken the baton, with Speranza Scappucci joining as...
Plan To Dismantle Antwerp’s Contemporary Art Museum Is Put On Hold
Following ferocious criticism from the art world in Belgium and internationally, Flemish culture minister Caroline Gennez has agreed not to put her plan to...
Philadelphia Breaks Ground On $150 Million Overhaul Of “Avenue Of The Arts”
The project — a complete redesign of the streetscape of Broad Street, home to a number of the city’s leading arts institutions, from City...
