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Japan’s Hot Young Kabuki Prodigy Is … French
This may be surprising in a genre that's both deeply Japanese and family-based — but it's less surprising than you might think. Maholo Terajima...
Why Are More And More Americans Watching TV — Even When It’s In English...
It drives writer Devin Gordon nuts, but he learns that people have good reasons for doing it. (At least one of those reasons is...
The Australian Ballet’s Dancers Are Preparing For A Strike
"The sticking point is management’s refusal to maintain a clause in the dancers' contract that guarantees pay will keep pace with inflation, a guarantee...
Mike Bloomberg Gave $130 Million To Get The Ground Zero Performing Arts Center Finished
It's called the Perelman Performing Arts Center because Ron Perelman gave the $75 million that finally got the building started in 2016, but the...
Pianist George Winston, 73
"Selling more than 15 million albums worldwide, Winston became synonymous with a distinctive, highly imitated flavor of solo piano: warm, melodic and pastoral. His...
West Virginia Symphony Appoints A New Music Director
Maurice Cohn, a 27-year-old native of rural Illinois and an Oberlin graduate who's currently assistant conductor (to Fabio Luisi) at the Dallas Symphony, begins...
When Adrienne Kennedy Turned John Lennon’s Book Into A Play For Olivier’s National Theatre
The Black American playwright was inspired to adapt Lennon's In His Own Write by her son's Beatlemania. To her initial surprise, Kenneth Tynan picked...
Insults Through History (They’ve Changed Less Than You Might Think)
"Despite the different time periods and languages used, the content of insults hasn't evolved: They're still highly personal barbs about people's courage (or lack...
How Actors’ AI-Generated “Digital Doubles” Are Already Being Used
"So are we on the cusp of major studios forcing Meryl Streep into a sequel by casting her digital double? Not quite. It's not...
“Nobody Dances In Prison.” But In This One, They Do.
Dance is far rarer than other art forms in prison arts programs: it "goes against prison-culture codes of masculine behavior." But two inmates decided...
A Safeway Blasted Classical Music At Top Volume Nonstop For Days, Driving The Neighbors...
A Safeway in San Francisco has been playing classical music from a speaker in a parking lot security tower for months in order to...
The Job Of A Museum Director Has Changed Enormously
In addition to knowing art history and being a good administrator and fundraiser, a museum director these days may have to address diversifying her...
London’s Donmar Warehouse Names A New Artistic Director
"Tim Sheader …, who currently runs Regent's Park Open Air theatre, will take over from Michael Longhurst in March 2024 and will also be...
A Big, Multicolored Outdoor Artwork Near San Francisco Bay Has Vanished
"A colorful collection of wooden slats woven into a fence along the Richmond Parkway near the Chevron refinery, titled 'Fencelines: A Collective Monument to...
Lincoln Center Plans To Renovate Its Western Edge So It No Longer Looks Like...
The Amsterdam Avenue façade of the campus has always seemed sterile and forbidding, the tall, blank walls of the building giving the feeling of...
Marin Alsop Has A New Job: Artistic Director Of The Polish National Radio Symphony
She first conducted the orchestra, based in Katowice, a bit over two years ago; since then, she's led them in 15 concerts at home...
Françoise Gilot, The Only Lover Who Dumped Picasso And An Accomplished Artist Herself, Is...
"She also published graceful, incisive memoirs and poetry collections, even as she spent decades battling with those who sought to define her by the...
A Young Polio Survivor And Refugee Heals Herself And Others Through Dance
"Chantal-Iris Mukeshimana came to Belgium as a child after fleeing the genocide in Rwanda. Decades later, she founded a dance school where fellow wheelchair...
Design Unveiled For Planned Holocaust Museum In Boston
"The Boston-based Holocaust Legacy Foundation has unveiled renderings of its proposed Holocaust Museum Boston, to be located along the Freedom Trail, by the intersection...
Why The French Military Hires Science Fiction Writers
The job? "To imagine future threats to national security. So far, sci-fi novelists from the Red Team Defense project have written more than a...
Each Side In The “Here Lies Love” vs. Broadway Musicians’ Union Dispute Makes Its...
"The union is demanding a 19-piece live orchestra, as mandated by contracts, barring 'special situation' exemptions. Producers want the show as it has been...
Speranza Scappucci Named Covent Garden’s First Principal Guest Conductor In 25 Years
"It will mark a new era for the (Royal Opera House) at a critical time, amid an arts education crisis, government funding threats and...
Putin Moves Russia’s Most Famous (And Fragile) Icon From Its Museum To The Church,...
The 15th-century icon of the Trinity by Andrei Rublev, Russia's most revered icon painter, was moved from Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery into Christ the Savior...
After Years Of Protests And Bad Press, The British Museum Has Ended Its Sponsorship...
"BP's sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and...
With 98% Of The Vote, SAG-AFTRA Authorizes A Strike
"The 'yes' vote does not trigger a strike, but allows the union's top negotiators to potentially call a work stoppage once their TV/theatrical contracts...
