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National Black Theatre Is Building A Home In Harlem And Cred On Broadway
"NBT is readying to build a new, 21-story Harlem facility that will house a new theater complex as well as retail and affordable housing...
Bonham’s, The Venerable London Auction House, Is Reportedly For Sale For $1 Billion
"Five years after private equity firm Epiris acquired and reinvigorated Bonhams auction house, it is now looking to cash in on its investment. The...
Adrien Hall, Founder of Providence’s Trinity Rep And A Major Force In Rhode Island...
"If you've enjoyed the arts scene in downtown Providence, the popularity of Trinity Rep paved the way for that. If you went on a...
UK’s Women’s Prize For Fiction Is Getting A Nonfiction Equivalent
"The Women's Prize is to launch a non-fiction award to sit alongside its long-running fiction prize, in response to research that found that female...
Male Celebrities “Queerbaiting” — Is It Really A Thing? Does It Matter? Should It?
Mark Harris: "The fact that these have even become urgent questions has to do, in large part, with the collision of Gen Z's approach...
What Was Up With That New York Times Column Saying The Waffle House Brawl...
"Turning the spotlight on the sensational viral clip, only to describe the violence in it as a kind of picturesque genre scene, doesn't really...
What Made Kyle Abraham into A Choreographer? Getting Fired By Bill T. Jones
"For a moment there I think I lost what my goal was in being choreographer. ... What I realized, after getting fired from that...
So How Amazingly Productive Was Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks During Lockdown?
"From March 2020 to April 2021, Parks wrote a short play a day. Sometimes, Parks would write multiple (sic). Other times, Parks would write...
The Beltracchis: How The Great Art-Forging Couple Of Our Age Did It, And Why
"Rather than forging existing paintings, Wolfgang produced hundreds of original works that skillfully imitated the styles of deceased European artists including Max Ernst, Fernand...
Salman Rushdie Gives His First Interview Since The Attack That Cost Him An Eye
"I've found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it's a combination of blankness...
Post-Pandemic, US Theatres Try To Innovate Their Way Back To Long-Term Health
"Thanks to a combination of lackluster ticket sales and an end to government relief, they have no choice but to try out new things." ...
Penguin Random House Restructures After Its Failed Bid To Buy Simon & Schuster
"Though the restructuring is still a work in progress, its goal is to reinvigorate internal competition for new titles among PRH's many imprints. ......
AMC Will Start Pricing Movie Tickets According To Location
"The mega-exhibitor is following music concerts, sporting events and other entertainment venues in setting its ticket pricing strategy to sightlines for seating selections. AMC...
Italy’s Opera Companies Are Working Together To Help Purchase Verdi’s House
"The Italian government has a new plan to buy the home of composer Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. They will be partnering with opera houses...
Damage To Ancient Heritage Sites In The Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
"The partial destruction of a Roman-era castle in the Turkish city of Gaziantep has led to fears that two earthquakes that struck on Monday...
Was This Antarctica’s First-Ever Professional Outdoor Dance Performance?
Probably. Earlier this week, members of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional Argentino and Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporánea traveled from Buenos Aires down to Argentina's...
Remember The Guy Who Streaked At The Oscars? He Did A Hell Of A...
"Who was Robert Opel, and why did he do what he did? ... Even as Opel's fifteen minutes ticked down, his quest for exposure...
Meet The Most Media-Friendly Of Maria Von Trapp’s Great-Grandchildren
"(He's) not one of the von Trapps you'd occasionally see performing 'Edelweiss' on Oprah or The View in years past. But ... when journalists...
Her Uncle Writes Plays, And She Turns Them Into Operas
Composer Emma O'Halloran had had her Uncle Mark adapt two of his scripts, Mary Motorhead and Trade, into librettos to which she's written one-act...
As A Black Man Running The Pasadena Playhouse For 20 Years, George Epps Has...
"There were years when it was me shouting into the wind and nobody was really listening. There are more voices now. They've been voices...
Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries Was A Total Head Trip
"(I was) groping and straining to make sense of Kafka's groping and straining to make sense. Not only could I not always — or...
“Enshittification” — How TikTok Is, Inevitably, Ruining Itself (And Us)
Cory Doctorow: "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for...
It Would Have Been America’s Biggest Solar Farm. It Was Killed For The Sake...
The 14-square mile project was to be on Federal land in eastern Nevada — on the way to Michael Heizer's 1970 work Double Negative,...
A Statue Of A Roman Emperor Pretending To Be Hercules Is Discovered In A...
"The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure with the hero's trademark lion skin and club, was unearthed on Jan. 25 (in) the Appian Way...
Brexit Has Cost The Arts In Britain $200 Million In Funding
"Work by the UK Trade and Business Commission found that ... had Brexit never happened, the UK's creative industries would have received an additional...
