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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...
The Doofus Who Broke Off And Stole The Finger Of A 2,000-Year-Old Terra Cotta...
"Michael Rohana, 29, apologized to his family and the Chinese government, saying he would make no excuses for his drunken prank at the (Franklin...
Another Jackass Tourist Damages Another Historic Italian Artwork
"A 22-year-old German man has been detained in Florence, accused of damaging a statue in the 16th-century Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della...
Venice Sets Its Entry Fee For Day-Tripping Tourists
"The fee, initially 5 euros ($5.50) per day-tripper, is 'not a tool for making cash,' (but) to improve the quality of life for Venice's...
Four Years Later, The Boy Who Was Thrown From The Tate Modern’s Balcony Is...
"He is now able to bend down, squat, grab his toys and clothes with both hands from his closet without falling or dropping them,"...
Philly Fringe Is Trying Out A New Model: Hub Venues
Two-thirds of this year's programming is at five hubs; one-half — 150 productions — is at Cannonball, which offers a stage, lighting and sound...
This Season, The Living And The Dead Create Theater Together
"Musicals can be shotgun weddings, their authors joined by necessity, not love. But in most cases, they're at least both breathing. Not so this...
Two Years After A Stroke, Choreographer Ronald K. Brown Is On The Road To...
"'At one point I couldn't move my left leg at all, and my therapist told me, just move it on a molecular level.' It...
A Rock Writer Watches The Gestation Of Carlos Acosta’s Black Sabbath Ballet
"While others try to persuade me that Acosta is a diehard Sabbath fan, he's a little more careful. He's Cuban, and Sabbath meant nothing...
The Myths Around One Of The Greatest of Native American Basket-Weavers
The Nevada businessman who sold the baskets in the early 1900s said they were made by a Washoe princess named Dat So La Lee....
Can The New York State Summer School Of The Arts Be Saved?
"For thousands of New York high schoolers without access to comprehensive arts education, the New York State Summer School of the Arts isn't just...
For Its 50th Anniversary, The Classical Label BIS Is Acquired By Apple
Founder Robert von Bahr says the label's staff will join the team working on Apple Classical, the streaming app launched earlier this year. BIS...
Meet The First Executive Director Of The New San Antonio Philharmonic
Roberto Treviño: "We finished the first season in the black. We did that without any city support and with a lot of things lined...
Warner Bros. Discovery Says Strikes Will Cost It Half A Billion Dollars
"The company said in a regulatory filing that it now expects 2023 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to be between $10.5...
Composer Gloria Coates, 89
Known especially for the use of glissando, "(she) composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice, … pieces that were...
Here’s One Regional Theater Company That’s Doing Very Well Indeed. What’s Its Secret?
"Santa Cruz Shakespeare … hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished. And its 2024 lineup expands...
