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The Last Remnant Of Radio Disney Is Sold Off
"The last Walt Disney Co.-owned radio station is officially in the hands of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which has closed on the $5...
Metropolitan Opera Commissions A New Work About Ukrainian Children Abducted To Russia
"The (opera), which will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by the American playwright George Brant, tells the story...
Earthquake Leaves Much Of Medieval City of Marrakech In Ruins
"The Medina district dates back centuries and is enclosed by walls built of red sandstone. ... Long sections are showing deep cracks and parts...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Franz Welser-Möst Has Had A Cancerous Tumor Removed
While he's still scheduled to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28, he has cancelled all performances from late October through the end...
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Hwang Sue OpenAI For Copyright Violation
"A group of authors… have filed suit in federal court against OpenAI, alleging the company unfairly used their copyrighted works to teach its chatbots...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Are Without A Contract As Management’s Offer Is Rejected
"The orchestra members voted definitively Sunday to reject the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.'s 'best and final offer,' which came after three full...
“Swan Song” — Filming The Tumultuous Gestation Of “Swan Lake”, Karen Kain’s Farewell To...
"'Nothing was going well!' (director Chelsea) McMullan recalls. 'Sean (O'Neill, the writer and producer) and I were terrified: 'We're filming Karen Kain's production as...
Queen Anastasia Alexander Leads Us Behind the Scenes At A Chattanooga Drag Show
A young Knoxville man named John takes a reporter through his preparations to perform — as Anastasia, his drag persona — in a sort...
Afghan Musicians Keeping Their Art Form Alive In Exile
"The stories of repression, resistance, and activism that follow are those of three young Afghan musicians who now live abroad and who continue to...
The Art World Frets About New York’s Armory Show Now That It’s Been Bought...
"(The acquisition) raised one uncomfortable question that remains unanswered: how Frieze would juggle both the Armory Show and Frieze Seoul, which run concurrently, in...
A Visit With Charles Busch, “The Celebrated Male Actress”
Ben Brantley visits the "Chinese-red living room" and "blindingly white boudoir" of the award-winning performer-playwright. "It felt like the natural setting for someone who...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Threatens To Sue Poland’s Justice Minister
"Controversy over Venice (Festival) title Green Border continues to heat up as director Agnieszka Holland gave an ultimatum to Poland's Minister of Justice Zbigniew...
Disney Narrows Its Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis
"Disney (has) amended its suit to drop Contracts Clause, Takings Clause and Due Process Clause violations. It will focus on allegations … that the...
Anchor Books Will Be Shut Down As A Separate Imprint
"Vintage/Anchor publisher Suzanne Herz will leave Penguin Random House in December. Anchor Books will gradually be phased out, starting with its hardcover program next...
Laurene Powell Jobs And A Group Of Arts Leaders Want To Buy The Defunct...
"We are working to see that the Art Institute is preserved for aspiring artists to advance their work," said SF Conservatory of Music president...
A New Arts Center In South Florida Will Be Designed by Renzo Piano
"The Center for Arts and Innovation … plans for six adaptive performance and event spaces — indoor and outdoor — ranging in seating capacity...
America’s Longest-Running Jazz Festival Names Its Next Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its...
The Monterey Jazz Festival was founded in 1958 by Jimmy Lyons and has been run for 32 years by Tim Jackson. Next year he...
Rotten Tomatoes Has Never Been More Important — Or More Compromised
"Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may...
The Endangered Puppetry Program At Troubled West Virginia University
In August, the state's flagship university made headlines by deciding to eliminate all foreign language instruction. The puppetry major in the theater and dance...
A New Director Is Expanding Lyon’s Already Busy Maison De La Danse
Tiago Guedes says that Lyon "is known as a dance city, but it was designed for touring rather than creation: The Maison de la...
A Complete Neolithic Monument Is Discovered In Scotland’s Western Isles
"In August, archaeologists working alongside local volunteers began their excavation at Drumadoon (on the Isle of Arran) of what is almost certainly the only...
Three Ex-Musicians, Fired For Resisting Vaccine Mandate, Sue North Carolina Symphony
"The suit," brought on religious discrimination grounds, "says all musicians ... were told in the summer of 2021 that they must get vaccinated against...
Red-State Governments Are Withdrawing Their Public Libraries From The American Library Association
"This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced they're leaving the ALA, with possibly...
Baltimore’s Flagship Theater Company Finds Its Next Artistic Director
"Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed...
Roku To Lay Off 10% Of Its Staff And Write Off $65 Million
"Roku will cut more than 300 staffers … as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain...
