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San Francisco Dance Company ODC Acquires A Third Building
Well, at least somebody can afford San Francisco real estate. This fortuitously located building — right next door to the company's theater in the...
“Phantom Of The Opera” Isn’t Leaving Broadway After All (Well, Not Yet)
In September, after months of shrinking attendance, producers announced that the longest-running show in Broadway history would finally close this coming February. Ticket sales...
“WALL-E” Director Andrew Stanton On Pioneering The Movie’s Style Of Visual Storytelling
"I always say that it was like trying to invent a new color. The hardest part is trying to get everybody to see this...
Is The Founding Novel Of Lesbian Literature Really A Lesbian Novel? Is It Even...
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness was a powerful, even life-changing story for several generations of gay women. But there's a serious argument to...
Welsh National Opera’s Boss Tries To Understand The Funding Cuts, But They Make No...
Aidan Lang: "There's been no explanation given other than a pleading that it's not an opera thing, it's about levelling up or spreading culture...
The Architect Who Made Modernism Colombian
"If (Rogelio Salmona is) relatively unknown outside Colombia, that's perhaps because his work is difficult to categorize, distant from both the pure rationality of...
Is There A Full-Blown Crisis At CNN?
"The original cable news network ... has been shedding viewers. ... The cost-cutting new corporate management under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Discovery has...
Expensive New Floodgates Save Venice Again (But For How Long Will They Be Effective?)
When unusually high tides hit last week, the $6 billion MOSE system of barriers in the lagoon was raised and a repeat of the...
Russia’s Ambassador To UNESCO Finally Gets Out Of The Way
The Russian Federation and its envoy had been chairing UNESCO's World Heritage Committee this year, throwing a wrench in the organization's attempts to save...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Come After Classical Music
Last week at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Julia Fischer and the Staatskapelle Dresden were about to start Beethoven's Violin Concerto when two activists from...
“Bronze Blond Bombshell” Joyce Bryant, Jazz-Pop Star Turned Missionary Turned Opera Singer, Dead At...
Dubbed "the Black Marilyn Monroe," she was a huge sensation in the 1950s — until overwork and Seventh-Day Adventist guilt (over her sexy persona)...
Why Do People Keep Willingly Humiliating Themselves In Interviews With The New Yorker’s Isaac...
Many have seen how the foolish and unwary "intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding. ... This raises a question that many...
In And Around Charleston, History Tourism Is Moving Away From “The Hoop-Skirt Experience”
The soon-to-open International African American Museum will be the flagship of efforts, beginning in the 1990s, to stop trying to ignore the history of...
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub Dead At 89
"Straub ... and his wife, Danièle Huillet, worked together as filmmakers for more than 30 years. Straub-Huillet, as they were often called by French...
Singing And Playing Wind Instruments May Spread COVID Less Than Speaking Does
A Princeton University study involving singers and orchestral players from the Met found that "musical professionals have such fine control over their breath that...
With An Immersive Theater Piece, Irina Brook Emerges From The Huge Shadows Cast By...
After a lifetime "blindly" following the path of her parents — director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry — Irina realized she was in...
Leader Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Says We’ll Be Shocked When We See The Cleaned...
Yes, "a shock" is the term used by the army general overseeing the project for visitors' anticipated reaction to the interior stonework once centuries'...
Best International Feature Oscar Gets A Big Change In Its Nomination Process
In previous years, participating Academy members would rate the films they saw on a point scale ranging from 7 to 10. Now they'll rank...
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” And “Tár” Lead 2023 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Everything Everywhere All at Once received eight nods: best feature, director, screenplay, and editing, as well as four acting nominations. Tár garnered seven nominations:...
Lucerne Festival Artistic Director Announces His Departure Date
Michael Haefliger will have run the summer event for 26 years when he allows his contract to expire at the end of 2025. Over...
Marcelo Gomes Will Be Directing Dresden’s Ballet Company
With Semperoper Ballett artistic director Aaron S. Watkins leaving this summer to take over English National Ballet, Gomes — who's been coach and ballet...
Italy May Have To Raise Museum Ticket Prices Because Of The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"Following a climate protest in which activists threw flour on a Warhol-painted BMW in Milan, Italy's cultural minister warned that museum admission prices could...
Detroit Opera Names Its First Music Director Since The Company’s Founder Stepped Down
Conductor Roberto Kalb, who starts effective immediately, will work alongside artistic director Yuval Sharon and associate artistic director (and soprano) Christine Goerke. Kalb will...
Pittsburgh Public Media Gets Quite A Donation: Another Radio Frequency
Martz Communications was operating WAMO (660 AM and 107.3 FM) as a hip-hop station until the company sold to the radio conglomerate Audacy, which...
How A Poor, Bullied Black Girl In Pasadena Grew Up To Be Octavia E....
"(Writing stories was) her own temporary escape hatch from a life of 'boredom, calluses, humiliation, and not enough money. ... I needed my fantasies...
