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Actor Anne Heche In “Extreme Critical Condition” After Driving Her Car Into Two Different...
"She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention. She is in a coma and has not regained...
Olivia Newton-John, Pop Superstar Of The 1970s And ’80s, Dead At 73
"Through a career that included 100m album sales and a starring role in Grease (1978), one of the most successful musicals in film history,...
Why Do People Wo Should Know Better Keep Thinking That AI Robots Are Sentient?
And by "people who should know better," we mean certain AI researchers themselves. "The problem is that people closest to the technology live with...
HBO Max And Discovery+ To Merge By Next Summer
Said the CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery, "At the end of the day, putting all the content...
This Program Could Transform The Model For Small And Midsize Dance Companies’ Touring
It's all in the program's name: PORT, or Peer Organized Reciprocal Touring. Says one of the founders, "It's pretty simple. ... Org A hosts...
“Jerusalem” — A Century Of Struggle Over The Meaning Of England’s Great Patriotic Hymn
Among the causes for which Hubert Parry's stirring setting of William Blake's poem has been enlisted (or co-opted): wartime patriotism, women's suffrage, English nationalism,...
Erin Overbey’s Ex-Colleagues At The New Yorker Say She Was Fired For Poor Work...
Said one of them, "This is about a legacy white employee who was in danger of losing her job for performance reasons, so she...
What Does It Mean To Be An LGBTQ+ Museum In The 21st Century?
"At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how...
Chicago Theater “Has To Stop Eating Its Own”: Chris Jones
"What matters now is whether this community can rebuild itself with fewer takedowns and more inclusion, less intramural finger-pointing and more outward-facing togetherness. Above...
Court Orders Kevin Spacey To Pay The Makers Of “House Of Cards” $31 Million
A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator's award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on...
Netflix Ordered To Pay Writers Guild $42 Million In Back Residuals
"The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for...
Uffizi Gallery In Florence Will Spend €50 Million To Renovate The Medici’s Grand Gardens
The "Boboli 2030" project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original...
Edinburgh Fringe Performers Are Staying In Tents And Trailers Because Lodging There Has Become...
New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city's permanent...
Flim-Flam In Flux: How Profanity Changed Through The 16th Century
The age of the Tudors in England is when words about sexuality and scatology started to be considered profane rather than simply matter-of-fact. Yet...
What’s The Difference Between Understudies, Alternates, Standbys, And Swings? A Broadway Explainer
They've all been heroes over the past year, often stepping in at the last minute to keep the show going on after a cast...
One Of New York’s Most Beloved Dance Teachers Finds His Way Back To Class...
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems,...
“Manuscripts Don’t Burn”: How “The Master And Margarita” Survived Stalin’s Regime And Made It...
Elena Bulgakova preserved her late husband's manuscript for 20 years, retyped it, got it published first in translation in Soviet-occupied Estonia, then, in Russian,...
The Royal Opera House At Versailles: A Brief History
The theater was conceived by Louis XIV but only completed in time for the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's...
San Francisco Arts Commission Executive Used Grant Money To Pay For Her Hawaii Vacation
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for...
George Bartenieff, An Eminence Grise Of Off-Off-Broadway, Is Dead At 89
He could easily have been one of the cohort of mainstream New York stage actors who pay their bills with guest spots in TV...
Reviving Brooklyn’s Golden Age Of Ashkenazi Cantorial Singing
Back in the 1920s, there was a group of cantors who combined traditional liturgical chanting with improvisation and operatic vocal technique, which they never...
Why Was “Batgirl” Canceled? For a Tax Writedown, Say Sources
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to...
Here Are Ten More Movies Hollywood Completed And Then Shelved
In honor of Batgirl, Ernie Smith remembers a group of other films — seven of which are from since the turn of the millennium,...
Met Museum Makes Max Hollein CEO As Well As Director
"The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure. ... The Met's current two-pronged leadership structure, which is unusual for art museums,...
Professional Theater Has Been Endangering Its Actors, Literally, For Generations. Now Actors Are Finally...
"In return for the privilege of scraping by in a field they love, they are commonly expected to endanger themselves physically and emotionally." Long...
