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“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...
The Block On Enforcing Florida’s Anti-Drag Law Remains In Place For Now, Rules Appeals...
"A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law...
AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt....
The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped...
New York’s Under The Radar Festival, Canceled By The Public Theater, Is Revived By...
The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater...
Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of...
Kharkiv’s Opera House Has Been Wrecked By Russian Missiles, But Its Company Continues To...
"In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists" – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring...
Chicago Seems Unable To Keep A Period-Instrument Orchestra. So It’s Adopting Cleveland’s.
The city's own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the...
“Extraordinary. And Exhausting.” How The Staff Is Coping With Management Chaos At Sacramento’s Capital...
"An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors ......
PBS’s Fall Schedule Is Almost Completely Unaffected By The Strikes. How Did They Pull...
"In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American...
The Gettysburg Review Is Abruptly Shut Down By Gettysburg College
The college's president granted that the Review is "a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education...
Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts
Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of...
A Queer Cowboy Ballet? Yup.
Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his...
These Are Hard Times For Arts Organizations, And Even Harder For Small Ones
Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on...
“Unlike Anything Else I Was Seeing In The Theater”: Ben Brantley On Nobel Prizewinner...
Watching his A Summer Day, "I succumbed to a strangely paradoxical feeling of calm, continuous dread. … I could understand why Fosse’s work had...
This Literary Magazine’s Publisher Is Giving Up Its Online Version To Keep The Print...
Amy Mae Baxter, founder of Bad Form: "As costs rise for everyone, it doesn’t feel fair for me not to be paying our contributing...
This Seaside Resort Was A Retirement Haven Nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room.” Then The Turner...
"Locals are hoping it will change (Eastbourne's) reputation and place it on a (larger) cultural stage. But as shown by the experiences of other...
This Actor Quit Theater Because It Simply Didn’t Pay Enough. Now He’s Artistic Director...
Lance Gardner, who'd given "rock-star performances" in a huge variety of roles, gave up acting in 2019 to become live events producer for public...
Opera Philadelphia’s O23 Festival Was Considerably Smaller Than In Previous Years. How Did It...
Mostly well, writes Peter Dobrin. The three major offerings got a very warm reception from audiences and critics alike; one sold out its last...
Talks “Suspended” As Hollywood Studios Walk Away From Negotiations With SAG-AFTRA
"On Wednesday night, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declared that negotiations with SAG-AFTRA are suspended, given that the gap between the...
Art Bridges, Alice Walton’s Foundation, Gives $40 Million To U.S. Museums In A Program...
"The grants, ranging from $56,000 to more than $2 million for a three-year period, are intended to fund programs to attract new audiences, whether...
State Of Utah Sues TikTok Over The Mental Damage The App Allegedly Causes Young...
"Utah became the latest state to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is 'baiting' children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits....
NPR Left Twitter Six Months Ago. The Cost In Web Traffic? Tiny.
"A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially...
