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The Lit Critics Who Really, Really Hated “The Waste Land”
"Reviews were often pitched at nonspecialist general interest readers. ... To come to Eliot's poem with a few platitudes about decency, intelligibility, and ease...
Ukrainian Soldiers’ Dance Videos Are The Latest Social Media Hit
"One comment with over 1,800 likes said, 'Damn! These Ukrainians do have a sense of humor. I'm rooting for you,' while a comment with...
You Think It’s Taken A Long Time For Hollywood To Pay Women And Men...
Priyanka Chopra says that in a 20-year career, "I've never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary...
George Newall, Last Surviving Co-Creator Of “Schoolhouse Rock,” Is Dead At 88
He was creative director of an ad agency when the boss complained that his sons could remember rock lyrics but not multiplication tables and...
This Director May Have Figured Out How To Rescue Sondheim’s Most Notorious Flop
For four decades, the consensus has been that — despite some excellent songs, and despite repeated adjustments during revivals — there's just no way...
The Blue Man Group Has Been Running For 30 Years — Longer Than “Phantom...
Indeed, Phantom is ending its long Broadway run this spring, but the Blue Man Group (granted, in a smaller house) just keeps on —...
BBC’s Boss Predicts It Will Be Online-Only In Ten Years
Director general Tim Davie: "Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A...
English National Opera May Keep Performing In London If It Makes Its Base Somewhere...
Arts Council England head Darren Henley told a parliamentary committee, "We are saying we would like to see an organisation with a base outside...
Indian Classical Dance As Journalism? Well, Yes, Sort Of …
Nadhi Thekkek and her San Francisco company, Nava Dance Theatre, use the style and vocabulary of bharatanatyam to tell contemporary stories taken from the...
The Paris Opera Starts Up Performing Arts Training Programs In French Guiana
"As well as offering workshops in ballet, contemporary dance, hip-hop and singing, she explains, the Paris Opera will also launch an apprenticeship programme for...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: What Killed Him?
He was a lifelong alcoholic, so the common assumption has been that he died of alcohol poisoning or related organ failure — but medical...
The Gender Pay Gap In The Arts In Australia Is Really Pretty Wide
"A survey of professionals across the performing and visual arts found overall incomes for women were 25% less than their male counterparts, ... almost...
A New York Times Classical Music Critic Makes His Metropolitan Opera Stage Debut
Joshua Barone writes about becoming one of the throngs of supernumeraries in the Triumphal March of the Met's very grand production of Verdi's very...
The Choices For 2022’s Word Of The Year Are Weird And All Over The...
The selections: a word that describes 2022 entirely too well; an all-too-common behavioral M.O. these days; a now-overused term derived from a Hollywood movie;...
“Fam and Yam”, The Edward Albee One-Act You Probably Never Knew About
A thinly veiled swipe at playwright William Inge (and at himself), the play seems to have been deliberately omitted by Albee from his collected...
Latvia’s Government Revokes The Broadcasting License Of Russia’s Leading Dissident TV-Network-In-Exile
"Dozhd — also known as TV Rain — had been fined earlier this month for airing a map labeling Crimea as Russian territory, and...
Metropolitan Opera Is Hacked; Website And Ticketing System Are Paralyzed
The attack was discovered Tuesday morning and is ongoing; rehearsals and performances are going on more or less as scheduled. The perpetrators have not...
“STOMP” Is Closing After A 29-Year Run Off-Broadway
The long-popular show, which combines rhythmic movement and comedy with percussion, much of it using everyday objects, opened in Manhattan's East Village in 1994. ...
Turner Prize For 2022 Goes To Sculptor Veronica Ryan
At 66 the oldest person ever to win Britain's top art award, Ryan was honored for her memorial to the Windrush generation of Caribbean...
What’s The One Thing That Profanity Throughout The World Has In Common? Phonemes.
The phonemes they lack, that is. "They're less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L, R, W or Y. And more...
Angels In The Bible Have No Wings. Who Gave Them Wings, When, And Why?
The ancient Near East had many divine beings with wings, including cherubim and seraphim. Yet, in both Old and New Testaments, angels are identified...
Broadway Musicals Have Gotten Too Damn Loud
John McWhorter: "I don't mean ordinary modern pop loud. I mean that in many numbers the volume is turned up so high ... you...
How The National Philharmonic Of Ukraine Plays On, Even Through Russian Missile Strikes And...
Smaller ensembles are playing with battery-powered lamps, and attendance is capped at the number of people who can fit in the concert hall's bomb...
The Tory Government Wants English National Opera To Move North, But Does The North...
"Opinion locally is divided about whether the ENO should relocate. But the London-centricity of much outraged reaction to the story has generated irritation. ......
British Media Giant ITV Goes All In On Streaming (And Not Everyone’s Sure It’s...
This week the company launches ITVX, a free, ad-supported streaming service. The plan is to offer 10,000 hours of content, including new material, in...
