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Talking About “The Book Of Mormon” With Three Guys Who’ve Been In Its Cast...
Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale ("all the old white guys"), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) "joined a reporter at the theater...
After 110 Years, “Poetry” Magazine Has Its First Black Editor
In a Q&A, Adrian Matejka, a multiple award-winner who holds an endowed chair at Indiana University and was the state's poet laureate from 2018-19,...
Norway’s New National Museum Looks Like A High-Tech Fortress. What Is It Protecting?
"This is a building that says 'No': after years of delays, here is a complex of enormous hard-edged boxes clad in dark gray slate...
The Head Of London’s Royal Opera Writes About Race, Representation, Black- And Yellowface, And...
Oliver Mears: "Notwithstanding their subject matter, these operas are masterpieces. Instead of cancelling them we should find creative ways to live with them. ......
How Do Black Baltimoreans Feel About “The Wire” 20 Years On?
Photographer and writer Gioncarlo Valentine: "I was curious about how the community felt. Who liked it, and why? What has it been like for...
The Two Nights That Transformed Flamenco Music, 100 Years Ago
By 1922, the powerful cante jondo ("deep song") of tradition had been cutesified into the cante chico heard in cafés — and a group...
How Many Languages Should A Young Child Be Able To Pick Up?
A child in a multilingual environment? A fair number, with no particular firm ceiling, but not, say, three dozen; there are limits. This makes...
Derek Jarman’s Only Short Story Has Been Published After 51 Years
The late filmmaker (Sebastiane, Caravaggio, The Last of England) wrote "Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping" in 1971 but never had it...
Six Months Ago, Afghan Music Students Fled To Safety In Portugal. What Happens To...
In December, 300 students and teachers from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music who had escaped the Taliban government arrived in Lisbon. After half...
MAMGA! (Make America’s Malls Great Again)
With Rick Caruso, developer of upscale "lifestyle centers" (that is, malls without roofs), being one of the finalists for mayor of Los Angeles, Carolina...
Alexei Ratmansky Says The Invasion Of Ukraine Has Changed Him
Says the choreographer, who grew up in the country and has family there, "When I am in the studio, I am fully focused on...
An Irish-Language Film Has Become An Unlikely Hit In The British Isles
The Quiet Girl (original title An Cailín Ciúin) "has astonished the industry by quadrupling the previous record for an Irish language film, and by...
After 25 Years, The Director Of DC’s Arena Stage Will Retire
"Molly Smith, ... a champion of American plays and the force behind a glittering transformation of (Arena's) Washington complex, announced that she will leave...
After Canceling Exhibition That Featured Suspected Forgeries, Director Of Slovenia’s National Museum Resigns
"The show, titled 'Travels,' was to feature a group of works by 20th-century artists like Matisse, Picasso, and Chagall. ... Just hours before the...
A. B. Yehoshua, One Of Israel’s Most Revered Authors, Dead At 85
One of a small group of writers who got Israeli literature established on the world stage, "(he) tackled a variety of narrative forms —...
Former Adjunct Teacher Sues Kansas City Ballet For Discrimination
"Griffin was teaching jazz dance in the styles of Eugene Louis Faccuito and Gus Giordano, two white jazz dancers considered pioneers in the field....
Cuban Exiles Sue Netflix For Defamation Over “Wasp Network”
"Brothers to the Rescue leader Jose Basulto alleges Netflix and Ossayas falsely depicted him as a puppet of the United States and traitor to...
New York Philharmonic Will Restore Musicians’ Pay To Pre-COVID Levels
After the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, musicians agreed to a 25% salary cut, with pay rising to 90% of previous levels by the...
The Metropolitan Opera Sold 61% of Its Tickets This Past Season. That’s Actually A...
Sure, that's down from the last full season, which was 2018-19. (Think about that.) What's more, tourists, who used to account for up to...
Behold The Harpejji, A Cross Between A Piano And A Guitar
"It's long, flat and electrified, with strings stretched over frets along a wooden body. Beneath them are black and white markers corresponding to the...
Tourists Are Long Gone From Timbuktu. Here’s How Some Tour Guides Are Piecing Together...
With a years-long civil war in Mali cutting off access, you simply cannot get to the historic city from abroad. But you can still...
Just Like Its Protagonist, The Story Of Pinocchio Keeps Changing
Joan Acocella reminds us how utterly different the character and narrative in the original novel by Carlo Collodi are from Walt Disney's 1940 movie....
Intentional Profanity: How To Use Bad Words Mindfully And Derive Maximum Benefit
Swearing can abuse people or amuse them, inspire doubt or trust (or both) in others, and measurably relieve stress or pain — if you...
Optimistic Pigs, Tool-Making Birds, Ball-Playing Bees: (Re-)Considering Animal Minds
"The challenge, then, becomes finding a way of thinking about animal minds that doesn't simply view them as like the human mind with the...
A Gay “Fantasticks”? Yes, And Adapted By The Original Writer
When Flint Repertory Theatre artistic director Michael Lluberes contacted Tom Jones, the musical's playwright/lyricist, requesting approval to do the show with two young men...
