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Audiences Singing Along At Broadway Musicals — Is It Getting Out Of Hand?
"Encouraging audience enthusiasm while upholding basic theater etiquette has become a tricky balance, but attracting fans itching to sing along is also a badge of popularity. …...
“Resistance Theater” Spreads As Trump’s Second Term Goes On
“The Unquiet series, organized by Sara Candela, a poet, is part of a larger movement in which artists, writers and theater groups across the...
What Gustavo Dudamel Told Domingo Hindoyan About L.A.
Dudamel is the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Hindoyan is the incoming music director of Los Angeles Opera; they have known...
Sony Spent $457 Million To Buy The “Peanuts” Franchise. Now What Will The Conglomerate...
It’s going to “leverage the iconic IP across music, film and global distribution platforms,” as one would expect. On the music side, this means...
30th Anniversary Performance Of Michael Flatley’s “Lord Of The Dance” Canceled And Then Uncanceled...
Amidst ongoing lawsuits between Flatley, creator of the Irish step-dancing spectacle, and Switzer Consulting, whom he contracted to manage the show’s touring operations, Switzer...
Former Muppets Exec Sues Jim Henson Company
"Jason Lust, a former senior executive … who helped shepherd some of The Jim Henson Company's most successful modern movies and TV series, …...
Alvin Ailey Company Gets Dedicated $10 Million Endowment For Artistic Director
Daria L. Wallach, a retired financier and the chair of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s board of directors, and her husband are the donors....
This Opera Lampooning Trump Features Zombies, Vampires, And A Libretto By A Nobel Prizewinner
Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, and composer Olga Neuwirth, who received the 2022 Grawemeyer Award, have created Monster’s Paradise...
Ukraine Punishes Two Prominent Ballet Dancers For Performing In “Swan Lake” Abroad
“The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture slammed Serhiy Kryvokon and Natalia Matsak’s performance as ‘promoting the cultural product of the aggressor state’. The National Opera...
Author Neil Gaiman Breaks Silence To Insist That Sexual Assault Allegations Are “Completely And...
The accusations were made in 2024 podcast from Tortoise Media and a New York magazine article early in 2025; several media adaptations of Gaiman’s...
A New Fund For Training The Arts Teachers Now Required In Every California School
Since Prop. 28, the Art and Music in Schools Act, passed in late 2022, California has struggled to locate enough qualified arts teachers to...
Founder Of Chicago’s Invictus Theatre “Steps Away” Following Accusations Of Bullying
The company’s board said that there will be a third-party investigation into social media allegations that founder/artistic director Charles Askenaizer engaged in aggressive behavior...
Inside The Police Investigation Into Ex-CEO At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio
Monica Bustamante, the lead detective on the case, “said a portrait emerged of an executive who exploited the station’s lack of internal controls and...
Nebraska Public Media Will Finally Get Its Own Radio Outlet In Omaha
The network has nine other outlets of its own throughout the state, but the NPR affiliate in Nebraska’s largest city, news/talk KIOS (91.5), is...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs, Drops Sports and Books Sections
“Executive Editor Matt Murray … said the Post will shutter its sports desk, while keeping some sports writers who will write feature stories. It will likewise close...
National Symphony Execs Say It Won’t Be Shut Down Or Laid Off As Kennedy...
The orchestra’s board chair and executive director told musicians and staff that they would remain employed, that the Kennedy Center would maintain its funding...
Pope Orders Removal Of Italian Prime Minister’s Face From Restored Church Fresco
Eyebrows were raised at reports that a restored fresco in Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina had an angel with the face of...
Antwerp’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is Saved (For Now)
After a wave of criticism, the culture minister of the Belgian region of Flanders has reversed her plan to move the Antwerp museum’s entire...
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling To Get A Three-Month Cleaning
The first major restoration since 1994 of The Last Judgment (as the fresco is titled) a film of microparticle buildup — a “widespread whitish...
Explaining That Weird Delivery Poets Use When They’re Reading Their Work Aloud
“Good poets exploit that musicality the same way good rappers do, favoring one word over another for the way it interacts with the words...
New Artistic Director For Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre
Brandon Weinbrenner, currently the associate artistic director at the Alley Theatre in Houston, will succeed Vincent Lancisi, who is stepping down at the end of...
Glasgow’s Centre For Contemporary Arts Goes Bankrupt And Shuts Down
“The venue and office space, on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, fell into the hands of liquidators on Friday, with the building immediately shut down and...
Disney Reveals Bob Iger’s Successor As CEO: Theme Parks Chief Josh D’Amaro
“The appointment marks the second time in six years that Disney has selected a successor to Iger — his previous pick in parks boss...
New Federal Theatre Founder Woodie King Jr. Is Dead At 88
King launched the Off-Broadway company in 1970 to produce work by Black playwrights and give employment to Black theatermakers. Playwrights Ntozake Shange, Charles Fuller,...
Was Alexei Ratmansky’s New Ballet Inspired By Trump? Not Exactly.
The choreographer had the idea for The Naked King, based on the old fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and premiering this week at New...
