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The Most Produced Playwrights of America’s 2023-24 Season (Excepting Shakespeare)
For the second year running, Lynn Nottage tops the list, which includes nine women out of 20. (Lauren Gunderson, once the perennial leader, is...
America’s Ten (Really Twelve) Most Produced Plays Of The 2023-24 Season
For those who keep count, works by female creators make up almost half the list (definitely half if you count Carole King), and three...
Hillary And Malala Are Co-Producing A Broadway Musical About Suffragettes
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely...
La Scala Opens Its New 17-Story Tower, Designed By Mario Botta
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets,...
Can This New Director Stabilize Germany’s Biggest, And Most Beleaguered, Ballet Company?
The Staatsballett Berlin, an amalgamation of three pre-1989 companies, went through three artistic directorships in less than a decade while also dealing with recalcitrant...
How Far Apart Are SAG-AFTRA And The Studios? Nearly Half A Billion Dollars
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture...
How The Scholastic Book Fair Made Itself A Target For Both Sides In The...
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic...
The Very Meticulous, Very Determined Architect Of The New Arts Center At Ground Zero
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard...
Royal Albert Hall’s Archive Rescued From Flood Damage In £1 Million Project
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of...
Cairo Film Festival Is Canceled
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of...
Barnes & Noble Is Reviving Business By Dropping Something Chains Almost Never Drop: Visual...
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James...
Half A Dozen More Stolen Paintings Get Delivered To Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to...
Jazz Pianist Carla Bley, 87
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She...
The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of...
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and...
Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and...
She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She...
Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got...
This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant...
The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the...
“Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize
"'That really pushed us to the edge,' says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. 'It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'" Union...
Arundhati Roy Criminally Charged In India For A Speech She Gave 13 Years Ago
The author of The God of Small Things gave a speech about Kashmir and the Indian government's counterinsurgency campaign there at a conference in...
One of Iran’s Leading Filmmakers And His Wife Found Murdered Outside Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, one of the founders of Iran's "new wave," and his wife/co-screenwriter/costume designer, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered by their daughter with knife...
Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …
A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums...
“The Problem Child Of International Orchestras”? Serious Issues In Philadelphia As Management And Musicians...
Contract negotiations drag on. Players say they want salaries that can attract top talent. Management says it wants to pay better but the cash...
Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums
Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+...
Maryland Lyric Opera Has Shut Down
"In an internal memo, … the group’s founder and artistic director, Brad Clark, has announced he will end the operations of Maryland Lyric Opera,...
Why Does Ukraine’s National Ballet Perform For Only 400 People At A Time?
Because that's how many people the bomb shelter at their home theater in Kyiv can hold. (No, this is not a joke.) - Toronto...
