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“Purpose” By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize For Drama
This is his first Pulitzer, though he has been a finalist twice before. The production, directed by Phylicia Rashad, originated at Steppenwolf in Chicago...
Bloomberg CityLab Architecture Critic Alexandra Lange Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“The Pulitzer board praised (her work) ‘for graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural...
2025 Pulitzers For Literature Go To Percival Everett, Kathleen DuVal, Tessa Hulls
Percival Everett’s James continued its run of awards with the fiction prize, while Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won for...
Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes
“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want...
Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE)...
Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the...
Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the...
Sotheby’s Prepares To Auction Off Jewels Revered As Relics Of The Buddha
“The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and...
When Immersive Wall Street Play “Life And Trust” Closed Without Notice, Cast And Crew...
The show was staffed with early-career, non-unionized theatermakers, and they received no severance pay or other compensation when producers abruptly ended the run. When...
The City Of Austin Finally Has An Arts Department
“As of Feb. 14, the city has a real, big city-style department, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment. After years of performers,...
Ari Emanuel Buys Frieze Art Fairs From His Own Company
“Beverly Hills sports and entertainment company Endeavor is selling contemporary art organization Frieze to a new events and experiences company launched by superagent and...
Trump Issues Executive Order Blocking All Funding For NPR And PBS
“The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies ‘to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS’ and further requires that...
“Immature”: San Francisco Symphony Management Publicly Slams Musicians Over Contract Negotiations
Just days after musicians leafleted the audience at Michael Tilson Thomas’s last-ever concerts, management released an open letter pointing out that the orchestra is...
UK Culture Secretary Rules Out Taxing Streaming Services To Fund British TV Dramas
“British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has firmly rejected proposals for a levy on streaming platforms operating in the U.K., despite recent recommendations from a parliamentary committee suggesting such...
A Brief History Of May Day In America
The roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century to a turbulent and pivotal time in U.S. labor history...
How San Diego’s Dance Organizations Are Facing Down A Barrage Of Challenges In 2025
“We spoke to four local company leaders about challenges unique to dance organizations that present shows, in addition to operating schools and serving the...
The “Secret” Public Radio Service That Has Survived The Switch To Digital Signals
It’s a separate service which even public radio fans might not know is there: subchannel broadcasting with dedicated programming for the blind and visually...
André Lewis On His 30 Years At The Helm Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet
“(Artistic) vision is most clearly expressed through the repertoire you do. It was really important for us, I felt, to go into contemporary full-lengths,...
Alice Coltrane Was Not A Saint, And We’ll Lose Touch With Her Music If...
“Alice Coltrane, despite having been one of John’s pianists, is maneuvered into the margins by subgenre euphemisms like ‘spiritual jazz,’ by which many mean,...
People Have Already Found Loopholes In The Oscars’ “Must Watch All Nominees To Vote”...
“Today, some members, particularly in the Executive and Marketing and PR branches, simply press play on the Academy app to satisfy the system’s viewing...
Tony Award Nominations 2025: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Death Becomes Her’ And ‘Maybe Happy...
Oh Mary!, Sunset Boulevard, John Proctor Is the Villain, George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger and others are among the nominees. (Conspicuously missing are Denzel Washington...
Just What-All Happens To The Sistine Chapel During A Papal Conclave?
For s start, it’s closed to the public, since the Chapel has been the site for the voting since 1492 and the cardinals are...
Artist Behind “Blackest Black” And “Pinkest Pink” Disputes Loses Lawsuit Brought By Yves Klein’s...
Klein’s son, along with the corporation which owns Klein’s trademarks and rights to the color International Klein Blue, sued artist Stuart Semple for infringement...
Novelist Barbara Pym Worked For British Spy Agency, Researcher Says
Former British diplomat Claire Smith argues that, if you look carefully at correspondence from Pym’s wartime work as a censor, you’ll see evidence that...
After Bullying And Harassment Scandals, Formal Review Of BBC Finds This
“A BBC review has found no evidence of a ‘toxic culture’ but a ‘minority of people whose behavior is simply not acceptable,’ the U.K. public broadcaster...
