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Great Contemporary Novels Are Being Turned Into Story Ballets
"Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet...
Hollywood Studios Are Deciding That Filming In L.A. Is Just Too Much Trouble
The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Building A New Arts Center At The Far Northern End Of...
Okay, he's not building it, or even funding it, entirely by himself, but the foundation run by the actor-playwright and his father is the...
A Visit To The Real-World Inspiration For Brian Friel’s Village Of Ballybeg
Laura Collins-Hughes travels to Donegal, in the northwestern corner of Ireland, to visit Glenties — not Friel's own hometown, but that of his mother...
Salman Rushdie Asks: “What Does The World Of Fable Have To Tell Us About...
"The news is not very good," goes part of his answer, given last month in his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the...
French Authorities Arrest Alleged Leader Of Major Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Operation
"Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of a suspected Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, was arrested in Germany and transferred to France. … The 80-year-old dealer...
A Look Inside The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
"A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but...
How Did Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor For Organ Become The Emblematic...
After all, Bach knew nothing of Halloween, and to him the organ was an instrument for church worship. (Never mind the fact that some...
The Founding Novel Of The Regency Romance Genre Features Some Ugly Stereotypes. Is It...
Georgette Heyer's 1950 novel The Grand Sophy isn't exactly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it definitely includes antisemitic language. That's been...
What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads
"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re...
As A Show, “Pal Joey” Has Always Been A Mess. Can Making Joey A...
That's the gambit being tried with a new adaptation, co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover, that's getting a five-day run in New York...
Who Looted The Ancient Roman Bronzes From This Village? The Villagers.
"The story of the Bubon bronzes, though, is more than just a tale of looters’ remorse, investigative zeal, art market intrigue and antiquities repatriation....
The Drama Is Over: Philadelphia Has Selected Its Harriet Tubman Monument
After a long and initially contentious process, a panel has selected a winner from the five finalist designs for a Tubman memorial to be...
Music Therapy: How And Why It Works
"Scientific research has begun to explore why music appears to have such a strong effect on health and wellness, particularly mental health, where sounds...
Now Boris Johnson Is Going To Be A TV Pundit
The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK's right-leaning network GB News. "I’m going to be giving...
Why The Entire Board of The Banff Centre Was Dismissed
It all stems from a conflict between the now-former CEO, Janice Price, and now-former board chair Adam Waterous over her involvement in the choice...
What Alessandra Ferri Has In Mind For The Vienna State Ballet
"It is one of the great classical repertory companies, but I would like to have a company that lives in the present and looks...
Robert Brustein — Stage Director, Formidable Critic, Founder Of Yale Rep And Harvard’s ART...
"A forbiddingly erudite theorist who was also an in-the-arena practitioner, ... he had an uncompromising vision of what theater should be and no shortage...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack Louvre’s Pyramid With Orange Paint
"About a dozen protesters of 'Dernière Rénovation' (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and...
How Does A Kosovo Theater Dramatize The End Of The Post-Yugoslav Wars? Farce, Of...
In Jeton Neziraj’s Negotiating Peace, "vain generals can only be lured to the negotiating table by promises of Hollywood films celebrating their actions. Opposing...
All About Fake Movie Blood
"In all its elemental, metaphorical, campy, over-the-top, gore-y goodness, blood is something that has seeped into the visual vocabulary of movies. But how exactly...
You Should Never, Ever Tell David Sedaris Your Humiliating Stories
Well, unless you want them recounted in his writings or on stage, as Gabb Schivone learned the hard way. - Yahoo! (Slate)
How Akram Khan Found Himself Combining Classical Indian Kathak With Contemporary Dance
"That was accidental. … (At university) there were modules on contemporary dance. I didn’t know what the hell that was. But I decided because...
In Search Of The Songs In Shakespeare’s First Folio
The plays have many passages marked as songs, but no indication of what the melodies were or who composed them. Identifying that music requires...
Conductor Zdeněk Mácal Is Dead At 87
After fleeing Czechoslovakia following the 1968 Soviet invasion, he made an international career. He was music director/chief conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony (1970-74),...
