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New York Philharmonic Names Successor To CEO Deborah Borda
Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC's Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Is Back To (Almost) Normal
"Almost" because the Pillow's second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won't be complete until 2024. But the flagship Ted Shawn...
Checking In At La MaMa, A Cradle Of Off-Off Broadway, A Decade After Its...
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept...
YouTube Shorts Now Has 1.5 Billion-With-a-B Logged-In Viewers Each Month
"Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts' ability to drive viewers to creators' long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments...
Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio...
San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter...
There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with...
There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says...
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum...
Can An Artist Really Make A Living Online With A Thousand Serious Fans?
That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who'll each spend $100 annually to...
One Of America’s Hottest Young Playwrights Is Putting Down Syndrome Onstage
Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is "the rare play to feature both a lead character — and...
Has A Stolen Altarpiece From Italy Been Sitting In The Cleveland Museum Of Art...
"At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister...
“Fundamentally, It’s Just Really Beautiful”: Reviving The Music Of The First Published Black Composer
Born in 1520 to (most likely) a Portuguese father and African-descended mother, Vicente Lusitano published three volumes of highly accomplished sacred works and music...
Nashville (!) Has Developed A Thriving Early Music Scene
"(Historical performance has) been ebbing, flowing, and growing in Nashville for nearly 20 years. The city is home to two HP ensembles ... (and)...
Okay, Who At Netflix Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn “Squid Game”...
Granted, the losers in the reality-show version won't be killed, but still. In his announcement, the suit who greenlit this thanked the original series's...
The Washington Post Now Has A Hollywood Deal
"The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties culled from The...
Kevin Spacey Arraigned In UK On Four Charges Of Sexual Assault
"The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked...
Director Of Paris Opera Ballet Resigns Following Years Of Criticism
Aurélie Dupont, who is 49 and has been at the company since the age of 10, was appointed hastily following the resignation of Benjamin...
A Zen Priest Wins The 2022 Women’s Prize For Fiction
The novel has the rather Zen title The Book of Form and Emptiness, and its author is American-Canadian novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who,...
James Baldwin On Fire Island
He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959)...
Russia’s Cultural Brain Drain, In The Words Of The Brains Who Have Drained
Actress Renata Litvinova: "I suddenly realized that maybe I'm never going back." Director Kirill Serebrennikov: "I continue to allow myself the illusion that my...
How Did Stanley Kubrick Ever Get Away With Making A Hollywood Movie Out Of...
"Forced to excise or elide some of the book's thorniest elements for the sake of (the film's) being allowed to exist at all, ......
Is It Telling, In This Age Of Mistrust, That Tom Hanks Is Playing A...
"At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department." Hanks discusses finding...
Discovery Of 13,000 Ancient Artifacts Sheds Light On Lost Culture Of Sanxingdui
The find, which includes bronze, jade, gold, and ivory pieces, many intact, is at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province. The site was the...
How Pixar Grew From A Little Experimental Studio Into A Global Gold Standard For...
"Going back to its earliest days, Pixar was always a place where some minds succeeded by solving intractable problems with vim and whimsy, and...
Voguing — Dance, Subculture, Liberation Movement
The hybrid of dance, costuming, satirical mimicry and other ingredients that has provided community to several generations of Black and Hispanic queer people is...
