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“Bros” Shows, Yet Again, The Problem With Romantic Comedies These Days
"The tropes feel like they're driving the action rather than the other way around. The rom-com, like a delicate houseplant, must be watered with...
“California Is Moving Toward A Revolutionary Overhaul In How It Finances The Performing Arts”
"In signing SB1116 into law on Thursday, Sept. 29, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which would reimburse small performing...
Ancient Buddhist Caves, Temples, And Murals Discovered In Indian Tiger Sanctuary
"The caves date back to the 2nd to 5th century BCE, but researchers also found more recent relics, including 26 temples, 46 sculptures, two...
Charles Fuller, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Of “A Soldier’s Play”, Is Dead At 83
"A soft-spoken writer who liked to populate his plays with sprawling casts of characters, Mr. Fuller launched his theater career in the late 1960s...
“Suzan-Lori Parks Does Not Like To Be Policed!”
"We (Black people) have to wake up to the ways we are policing each other to our detriment. 'No more trauma-based writing!' These are...
NPR’s Board Chair Named CEO Of New York Public Radio
LaFontaine Oliver, who is CEO of Baltimore public radio station WYPR and is serving his second term heading NPR's board, takes over the US's...
Daniel Barenboim Cancels All Performances “For The Coming Months”
On the same day that he won a Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement, the conductor and pianist announced, "My health has deteriorated over the...
Gramophone’s 2022 Record Of The Year: Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt” From Kirill Petrenko And...
The Bavarian State Opera also took honors for Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen and, under Petrenko's baton, Mahler's 7th Symphony. Among other winners were...
The Finalists For The 2022 National Book Awards
Among the shortlisted authors are Gayl Jones, Alejandro Varela, Imani Perry, Meghan O'Rourke, John Keene, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, Scholastique Mukasonga, Yoko Tawada, and...
Do We Need All These Books With Bombshell Revelations About Trump? What Difference Do...
"The other defining aspect of the collected works on Trump is that virtually nothing in any of them – none of the 'bombshells' or...
How John Luther Adams Feels About All The Mathematics In His Compositions
"I always used to say that I observed this formalism to protect the music against the bad taste of the composer. And I still...
Bollywood Has Become A Major Target In India’s Culture Wars
Hindu nationalists, frequently using the hashtag #Urduwood (Urdu being, in effect, the Muslim version of Hindi), are calling for boycotts and harassing Muslim filmmakers...
Loretta Lynn, Country Music Legend, Is Dead At 90
"(Her) career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. She was a teenage bride and mother, a country star and a grandmother...
The Arts In Britain Are Being “Privatised By Stealth”
"For many cultural organisations, the Arts Council or their local authority is often no longer the major funder – and as a result, the...
Time’s Up: How, And Why, The Entertainment Industry’s Response To #MeToo Fell Apart
"Time's Up was supposed to put Hollywood's considerable power and money — and its sudden outrage — to work fighting sexual harassment. Instead, today...
Florida Is Enacting School Library Book Bans On A Statewide Level
The news stories coming from the state have been mostly about bannings on a school district or city/county level. This past spring, Gov. De...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Director Has Been Making Major Changes (And Some Folks Are...
Nataki Garrett has reduced the amount of Shakespeare in the company's programming, introduced color- and sometimes gender-blind casting as well as non-traditional stagings, made...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Strike: The Five Biggest Points Of Contention
"Basically it comes down to compensation and health care." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
The City Of Glasgow Plans To Sell Its Flagship Art Museum And Then Lease...
The city council has approved a plan to sell the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, as well as other historic buildings, to a city-owned...
Met Opera Will Allow Home Streaming Of Live In HD Simulcasts, But Not For...
If there's a cinema anywhere near you that shows them, you're out of luck. Streamed broadcasts will only be available in countries (and areas...
Here’s Meta For You: A Play About Whether And How Working-Class People Can Do...
Class Act, based loosely on Shaw's Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, is inspired by lead actor Mish Gregor's "bogan" (that's Australian...
Bayard Rustin Wasn’t Just A Civil Rights Hero, He Was An Early Music Geek
He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a...
A Dance Version Of “The Matrix”, Staged By The Director Of “Slumdog Millionaire”
Danny Boyle is creating a "large-scale immersive performance" of the landmark science-fiction movie for the new performance venue The Factory International in Manchester next...
Was King Charles Actually Right About Modern Architecture?
"If you read his 1984 'carbuncle' speech in full, what follows might come as a surprise. Far from issuing a decree for more Corinthian...
How The Inventor Of Television Got Screwed Over By Corporate America
More specifically, the Radio Corporation of America (you know it as RCA), whose boss, David Sarnoff, stole some of Philo T. Farnsworth's technology, and...
