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Almeida Theatre, London’s Pint-Sized Powerhouse, Appoints Dominic Cooke Artistic Director
The 325-seat playhouse in Islington, which has a long history of spawning award winners and West End and Broadway hits, has chosen Cooke, formerly...
Behold London’s Serpentine Pavilion For Summer 2025, by Marina Tabassum
“Named A Capsule in Time, the Bangladeshi architect’s partially-sheltered pavilion, made from wood and polycarbonate, comprises four arched timber structures that take on the...
Montreal Dance Studio Drops Its Classes In Gaga Technique Because It Was Created In...
Last month, Studio 303 publicly joined the BDS boycott, including “all cultural and academic products that normalize the State of Israel." That includes Gaga,...
“Z Literature” — Fiction Designed To Convince Young Russians To Fight In Ukraine
These novels, aimed at young men who will soon be targets of recruitment drives, often feature hyper-nationalist, crudely-drawn “accidental travel” plots, wherein the hero...
“Bone Records” — How Forbidden Jazz And Rock Were Smuggled Into The Soviet Union...
It turns out that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched on by an electromechanical lathe. So one could take exposed X-ray film...
How The Broadway Cast Of “Purpose” Coped With Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Constant Rewrites
Glenn Davis: “The hardest day I’ve ever had as an actor: Branden rewrote our two scenes in the second act. ... We rehearsed the...
Peru Reduces Protected Area Around Nazca Lines By Half, And Archaeologists Are Alarmed
“The Nazca Archaeological Reserve has been reduced from approximately 2,162 square miles to 1,235 square miles. … The area now excluded from the environmental...
They’re Making An Animatronic Walt Disney For Disneyland. Walt’s Granddaughter Says He Would Hate...
Joanna Miller expresses great admiration for the skills of the Disney Company’s animatronics team. But she argues that "two minutes with the robot will...
Smithsonian Leadership Is Conspicuously Silent About Trump’s Firing Of National Portrait Gallery Director
Since the firing last Friday, leaders at the Institution have been considering whether, in a lawsuit or even in public statements, to challenge a...
GBH, Boston’s Public TV Powerhouse, Has Third Round Of Layoffs
“GBH on Monday announced it laid off 45 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce. … Home to national programs like Frontline and Antiques Roadshow, GBH is...
Novelist Edmund White, 85
The novelist, five-time memoirist, and co-author of the pioneering 1977 book The Joy of Gay Sex “was a major influence on modern gay literature,...
Kennedy Center Ticket Subscriptions Are Down By Over One-Third
“Sales of subscriptions for the coming season … are down by about $1.6 million, or roughly 36%, compared with last year.” A current staff...
Former Met Opera Chorus Director Heads To Chicago Symphony
Donald Palumbo, 76, is credited with revitalizing the Met chorus during his 17-year term (2007-2024) and, before that, the chorus of Lyric Opera of...
Salman Rushdie Explains Why AI Isn’t A Threat To Fiction Writers (Yet)
“The problem AI (has is) that it (can’t) make up its own jokes, the writer said. ‘It has no sense of humour – you...
Philly Gets A Brand-New Festival Of Nouveau Circus
“The new 10-day event, the Philadelphia Contemporary Circus Festival, features more than 24 exhibitions, workshops, and artist showcases throughout Old City and Camden, … (offering)...
David Cope, A Pioneer In AI Music Composition, Is Dead At 83
“Before the proliferation of A.I. music generators, before the emergence of Spotify and the iPod, before Brian Eno had coined the term ‘generative music,’...
How The Artist Robert Rauschenberg Helped Change The Course Of 20th-Century Dance
“When Rauschenberg was breaking out as one of the most influential artists in the world, that influence extended into American dance” through his collaborations...
Seven Years After Fire That Destroyed It, National Museum Of Brazil Is Partially Reopening
“(The museum) in Rio de Janeiro will temporarily reopen some galleries this month, nearly seven years after an electrical fire engulfed the building and...
Guy Klucevsek, Contemporary Classical’s Accordion Superstar, Is Dead At 78
“Writing in The Village Voice in 2015 about a series of performances … in the East Village, Richard Gehr noted that, ‘having mastered the...
What’s Going On With The Part Of The Disney Co. Folks Forget About, Disney...
“Disney Publishing’s most recent pivot came in 2020, when it sold 1,110 children’s titles to Hachette and decided to focus on acquiring global content that...
Texas Will Pump $300 Million Extra Into Its Film Incentive Program
“Senate Bill 22 … (will) allow the comptroller to deposit $300 million into a new Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Fund every two years...
How It Got To The Point That Taylor Swift Had To Buy Her Own...
“(Her) years-long saga to win back the rights to her first six albums will go down as one of the most significant storylines in...
After 16 Years, Marc Maron Will End His Megahit Podcast “WTF”
After more than 1,600 episodes, Maron says he and his producer, Brendan McDonald, are “tired” and “burnt out” but “utterly satisfied with the work...
Why The Bible Of Sacred Harp Singing Is Getting An Update
The Sacred Harp, the collection from which the traditional American practice of communal shape-note hymn-singing takes its name, was first published in 1844 and...
Adapting Paul Auster’s “New York Trilogy” To Graphic Novel Format
“The original New York Trilogy owes a debt to the existential detective, a genre archetype whose cases carry themes of choice, isolation, meaninglessness; not just murder...
