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Wales’s Leading Concert Hall To Be Leased To Private Operator
A committee of Cardiff's city council has approved in principle an operating lease of St. David's Hall — which hosts the BBC National Symphony...
The Metropolitan Opera Is Back Online
"The website was restored at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, and ticket sales have resumed after more than a week of chaos. Met Opera...
How George Balanchine Made Classical Ballet American
Jennifer Homans: "He was absorbing modernism from Europe and interest in the motorcar, the airplane, the train, the speed, ... the idea that there...
“Flimsy, Paper-Thin Architecture Held Together With Tape”: The Guardian’s Architecture Critic Has At The...
"The ruptured, splintered aesthetic goes beyond the sculptural moves alone. Sheets of buckled steel are screwed crookedly against the edge of the undulating façade,...
Every Autumn, Madrid Is Littered With Sculpture Knockoffs Of “Las Meninas”, And Madrileños Are...
"The fifty figures scattered throughout the city include a Menina Wonder Woman, a military Menina, a Menina painted with skulls, another wrapped in aluminum,...
For The First Time, There’s Sondheim, In Spanish, In Spain, Courtesy Of Antonio Banderas
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster...
Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To...
Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office. Lula wasted no time...
Despite Its Paralyzed Box Office, The Met Opera Keeps Going, And Audience Members Keep...
A week after the cyberattack which has paralyzed its ticketing and payroll operations, the company has not missed a single performance. And with its...
The Long HarperCollins Strike Will Have A Real Effect On What Books People Get...
"The outcome of the strike, which began Nov. 10, ... may have a ripple effect on jobs across the publishing industry. Its impact may...
Warner Bros. Discovery Expects To Write Off $3.5 Billion-With-a-B In Content Costs
"The company said it now expects to incur total pre-tax restructuring charges" — that is, charges related to the merger of Warner Bros. and...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Offshoot, With The Winner Chosen By Prison...
"Some prisons have organized their own literary prizes, but the inmates' Goncourt" — Goncourt des détenus, as it's called in French — "is unprecedented...
English National Opera Will “Definitely” Move Out Of London, Says CEO
Following the stern directive from Arts Council England, the government funder, to leave the capital, "(Stuart) Murphy said he had been contacted by MPs...
Behold The New Church Designed By Santiago Calatrava At Ground Zero
The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine replaces a church which was destroyed in the attack on New York's World Trade Center...
Using Theatre As Therapy For Domestic Abuse Survivors In Cambodia
At least one Cambodian woman in five suffers from violence by a partner, yet the subject remains taboo, something which the Battambang-based company Lakhon...
How The Australian Ballet Became A Leader In Injury Prevention
Built on a foundation of sports medicine and run in partnership with a research university, the company's program is countered on daily conditioning exercises,...
A Radio Drama Adapted From A Video Game (Is This A First?)
"Video games are inherently a visual medium — which is why high-profile crossovers have focused in the main on film and television," and Sebastian...
Russian High Culture Feels Very Different Since The Invasion of Ukraine: Philip Kennicott
"The war recalibrates everything. The humanism and decency of Chekhov now seem less relevant than the survey of Russian violence in the works of...
The Rise Of Celebrity Book Clubs (Reese Witherspoon Is The New Oprah)
"For all their informal organisation, these virtual reading groups led by a famous figurehead have emerged as a driving force within the publishing industry,...
The Philly Pops Announced That It’s Shutting Down. Now Its Musicians Are Threatening To...
"According to union leaders, the musicians have been trying to negotiate contract commitments with Philly Pops management since August without success. They learned on...
Actors’ Equity Lobbies Congress To Pass Performing Artist Tax Parity Act
"The bill, if passed, would allow more performing artists to deduct essential work expenses from their taxes by updating what's called the Qualified Performing...
London’s New “Ticket Bank” Will Offer Unsold Seats At Performances To Social Services Clients
In partnership with food pantries, housing nonprofits, support organizations for ex-prisoners, and similar groups, the Ticket Bank will offer 1,000 free or pay-what-you-wish tickets...
Adam Sandler Awarded Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize For American Humor
Said Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter in announcing the honor, "Adam Sandler has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and...
Yet Again, The Turkic Languages Of Central Asia Are Changing Their Alphabets
"The question of alphabet reform is hardly new for these countries — over the last 150 years, Kazakh has been written in Arabic, Latin,...
Jerry Saltz Weighs In On The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"I wouldn't be surprised to see (the) protest included in upcoming lists of top-ten artworks of 2022. Theirs is a form of performance art,...
The Main Rival To Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre In Jacobean London Was Funded By Female...
"Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe,...
