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Russian National Orchestra Dumps Its Founder, Mikhail Pletnev
The pianist-turned-conductor founded the RNO in 1990, as the USSR was collapsing. Now the orchestra has refused to renew Pletnev's contract, saying that "since...
This Little Architectural Gem Was Built To Be An Italian Fascist Utopia
In the mid-1930s, Mussolini's minister of agriculture(!), Edmondo Rossoni, worked to turn his home village, marooned in the marshes of Emilia-Romagna, into a model...
Catherine de’ Medici — Was She Really “The Serpent Queen”?
She was certainly a canny operator, but she was working to maintain safety and authority for herself and her sons (all three of whom...
The Granddaddy Of Topical TV Dramedies: M*A*S*H At 50
"M*A*S*H is in some ways the most contemporary of its contemporaries. Its blend of madcap comedy and pitch-dark drama — the laughs amplifying the...
Alan Alda, Who Directed And Wrote As Well As Starring, Talks About M*A*S*H At...
"I was looking for stories, each in a different way, that showed how everybody left the war with a wound of some kind. ......
From “Groomer” All The Way Back To “Miscegenation”, American Politicians Have Turned Words Into...
"Where groomer has a pedigree as a legitimate term of opprobrium, ... miscegenation was invented out of whole cloth, intended as a bludgeon to...
The Real-Life Female Army Depicted In “The Woman King”
The story enacted by Viola Davis and her colleagues is fictional, but the Agojie did actually exist: a troop of women warriors, founded in...
A Ukrainian Baritone Took Five Russian Bullets, One In His Lungs. Amazingly, He Is...
Back in March, early in the invasion, Sergiy Ivanchuk was driving escaping civilians from the besieged city of Kharkiv when his car came under...
A “Suicide Mission”: Aaron Sorkin On Adapting “To Kill A Mockingbird” For The Stage
"I absolutely knew there was no way I would get out alive. I was going to ruin everyone's childhood. ... Everything that was presented...
Composer Judith Weir Is The First Woman To Be Master Of The Queen’s, Er,...
"She has only 20 predecessors, most of whom held their positions for life. ... Over the centuries, the function of the master as primarily...
Praemium Imperiale 2022 Winners: Ai Weiwei, Wim Wenders, Krystian Zimerman, Giulio Paolini, And SANAA
The 15 million yen (currently $104,000) prizes have been awarded to artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (sculpture), filmmaker Wim Wenders (theatre/cinema), pianist Krystian Zimerman...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On A One-Day “Warning Strike”
Management says that the museum will remain open to the public despite the walkout and picket line, which the union is staging to press...
Dance Theater Of Harlem’s Resident Choreographer Will Be Its Next Artistic Director
Robert Garland, a former DTH dancer mentored by founder Arthur Mitchell, was the company's first resident choreographer. He succeeds Virginia Johnson, a founding member...
“Better Call Saul” As The Portrait Of An Artist
"Rather than a crime drama in the vein of the Scamming Show canon, Better Call Saul is perhaps best understood as an unlikely Künstlerroman...
Salman Rushdie And The Marketization Of Hurt Sentiments
"If it shocks us that the novelist was attacked after so long, it should also shock us that commentary looks much as it did...
Where Jodie Gates Plans To Take Cincinnati Ballet
"What I'm really hoping for is we develop our own style. A hyper-musical, full-port-de-bras style layered with joy, with beautifully coordinated dancers ... who...
The Adventurous History of The “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books
In a longread laid out like a choose-your-own-adventure tale, Leslie Jamison looks at why kids adore the books (agency!), their own origin story, how...
When They’re Putting On A New Opera, Who’s The Person Everybody’s Grateful For? The...
"The prompter is invisible to the audience, and he may be only one person among the roughly 250-strong cast and crew, but he plays...
Translating “Hamilton” Into German Is Even More Challenging Than You Think
"Preserving the rhythm, the sound, and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound...
How Does “Hamilton” Go In German? Here Are Half A Dozen Examples
For instance, Alexander Hamilton in "The World Was Wide Enough" —
English: "America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me."
German: "America, durch deine Brust...
Pulled Between Hollywood And The Stage: The Case Of Matt Shakman And The Geffen...
"If anyone could figure out how to synergize the creativity of a city dominated by film and television yet overflowing with theatrical ingenuity, ......
Meet The Strippers Working To Make Their L.A. Dive Bar An Actors’ Equity Venue
As "Reagan", one of the group's leaders, tells a carful of potential patrons, "We do want to dance. We love it in there. We're...
The New Harriet Tubman Statue In Philadelphia Might Not Be Of Harriet Tubman
When the city commissioned a permanent version of Wesley Wofford's traveling Tubman statue, objectors demanded the commission go to a Philadelphia artist of color...
Irene Papas, Great Tragedienne Of Stage And Screen, Is Dead At 96
"Notwithstanding her many roles in a wide range of Hollywood, international and Greek films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964)...
The Stage Adaptation Of One Of Bollywood’s Biggest-Ever Hits Casts A White Leading Man,...
The movie, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (or DDLJ), is about two Indian expats in London: she more traditional, he a Westernized playboy. The musical...
