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Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
Percy Shelley: Poetry As Political Crusade
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate...
And Here Is The New Poet Laureate Of The United States
Ada Limón "assumes the role with two primary intentions: to use poetry to help people reclaim their humanity and to repair their relationship with...
These Silk Weavers In Florence Still Work On 18th-Century Looms
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway,...
Why Ireland Has Become A Hotbed Of Horror Flicks
"The country's small film industry has made 20 horrors in the past six years, with another two (this) autumn. ..." Says one filmmaker, "Irish...
“Bad Art Is Doing Very Nicely These Days, And The Reason Is That People...
David Bromwich: "In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon recoiled from the display of affection by the happily married: 'It is simply washing one's...
Why This Former Martha Graham Star Is Doin’ The Hustle
"Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A dance in 3/4 time, it moves elliptically through disco's 4/4 beat. ... Hustle...
Why Jeri Lynn Johnson Founded The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
She got the idea after losing a music director post, following a successful audition, because "we just didn't know how to market you" (meaning...
Southern Rep Theatre In New Orleans Closes Permanently
Founded in 1986 to focus on new plays from and about the South, the company moved into a new space in 2018 that raised...
PETA Has A Damien Hirst Installation Shut Down For Wanton Murder Of Flies
Hirst's A Hundred Years, a glass cube in which flies hatch on one side and then fly into a bug zapper on the other,...
She Came As A Last-Minute Replacement Conductor. Two Months Later, She’s That Orchestra’s Music...
On a Tuesday in May, just arrived in town, Mélisse Brunet started rehearsing the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky for the season's final concert. By...
Baltimore Symphony Cancels Ten Of Next Season’s Concerts Due To Low Attendance
"In response to a precipitous slide in attendance during the 2021-22 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has canceled 10 concerts originally scheduled to be...
After 56 Years As The Toronto Star’s Classical Critic, William Littler Writes His Farewell...
Bill remembers the myriad performers who came from abroad and his trips overseas covering Canadian ensembles: in Prague in 1968, weeks before the Soviet...
Construction Of New Cultural Facilities Has Come Roaring Back: Study
The sixth annual Cultural Infrastructure Index, produced by AEA Consulting, has found that "after a predictable dip in 2020, due to broader pandemic lockdowns,...
The Problem With Remote And Hybrid Work, And How To Solve It
Remote work may be good for efficiency but it's deadly for team-building. So, just as the development of multi-location businesses led to the creation...
Surprising Good News: New Indie Bookstores Are Opening, Doing Good Business, And Serving Diverse...
Many of them opened during the pandemic shutdown, such as The Salt Eaters Bookshop in L.A. County and Socialight Society in Lansing, Mich., oriented...
Australia’s Beloved Skywhale Balloon Gets Torn In High Winds
Skywhale and her companion, Skywhalepapa, were to appear at an event in Ballarat, a historic town 72 miles WNW of Melbourne that's notorious for...
All Those TikTok Viral Dance Challenges? This Is Not The First Time America Has...
"A century later, the animal dance craze — and the issues it raises around body autonomy and regulation — is part of the legacy...
Here’s Who’s Replacing Beanie Feldstein And Jane Lynch In “Funny Girl” On Broadway
After Labor Day, Lea Michele, who has famously wanted the role for years, will play Fanny Brice, and Tovah Feldshuh will play her mother,...
Edouard Louis, His Mother, And The “Archaeology Of The Destruction Of A Smile”
Not long ago, the 29-year-old French memoirist (The End of Eddy) found an old snapshot of his mother at age 20 with a bright,...
This Couple Bought Their Small Newspaper Back From Gannett
Amy Duncan was editor and publisher, and her husband, Mark Davitt, managing editor, of The Record-Tribune in Indianola, Iowa, and when they heard that...
Old Redlined Neighborhoods In New Haven Have Become Havens For Black Artists
"A community of artists — many of color — has blossomed in unassuming districts with names like East Rock, Newhallville and Fair Haven. Most...
