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Ten Years Of “Hamilton” — And The “Hamilton Effect”
“Little on Broadway looks the way it did on Aug. 6, 2015, when Hamilton opened; that’s what happens when a show runs 10 years,...
How Did Dinosaur Bones Get To Be As Expensive As Old Master Paintings?
Skulls and other recognizable fragments can sell for well into six figures, while complete or near-complete skeletons now bring tens of millions of dollars...
TV Series Imagining Mainland Chinese Invasion Becomes Major Sensation In Taiwan
“Zero Day Attack …, which aired its first episode over the weekend, was partially funded by the Taiwanese government, which hopes to raise awareness...
Qatar Is Using High Culture To Flex its Soft Power
“(Landing the newest expansion of the Art Basel franchise is) just the latest coup for Qatar, uncomfortably wedged between Saudi Arabia and, across the...
Jacob’s Pillow Cancels Remainder Of Season Following Production Manager’s Death
The western Massachusetts dance festival had originally called off performances only for this past weekend following the death of production manager Kat Sirico in...
Jamaica Kincaid Is Always Watching Herself, And Always Has
“It sounds awfully wooey, you know, kind of hippie-ish, but somewhere I’m still Elaine (her birth name). She doesn’t know how to write. I...
Disney’s Relentless Push To Promote Its Disney+ Streaming Platform Is Damaging Its Biggest Movie...
“Nearly every one of Disney’s core brands – in addition to Marvel Studios, (they are) Pixar and Lucasfilm (home of Star Wars) – have...
San Francisco’s Symphony Hall And Opera House To Start Screening Audience Members For Weapons
The War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall will implement what they’re describing as “frictionless patron screening” — that is, a system using...
This Cheapo L.A. Motel Just Got Landmark Status
“This place gives a bad feeling, don’t recommend,” says one typical Yelp review (1.3 stars) of the Hollywood Premiere Motel — which the Los...
Britain’s National Theatre To Slash Staff At Its Commercial Arm By 70%
“National Theatre Productions is the commercial arm of the National Theatre, created to oversee touring productions and West End transfers of NT shows. ... The...
Philanthropist Morton H. Meyerson, Of Meyerson Symphony Center In Dallas, Has Died At 87
“His quiet civic leadership covered everything from the arts in Dallas to the National Park Foundation, where he was a vice chairman emeritus. He...
Why “King Of The Hill” Is The Most Significant Work Of Texan Culture Of...
“Hank is trapped between his state’s past and present, between the egotism and insecurity that is the Texan’s peculiar yin and yang. He is...
The “Naked Gun” Reboot May Be Bringing Spoof Movies Back From The Dead. But...
The prime suspects are generally considered to be the writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, none of whose films have ever scored...
A Classical Record Label Like No Other: ECM New Series At 40
Many listeners know it as the label which introduced the Western world to Arvo Pärt, though its catalog ranges from Keith Jarrett playing Bach...
The World Capital Of Knockoff Van Goghs And Rembrandts Has To Find A New...
Dafen, a village near Shenzhen, was for 30 years the source of up to 70% of the global supply of painted replicas of famous...
London’s Royal Ballet School Will End Boarding School And Full-Time Instruction For Preteens
In a statement, the school said: “(Research) has led us to conclude that, in our specific context, young dancers may benefit from more time to...
Intoxicated Raccoons And Malaria Ponds: Actors’ Tales of Shakespeare in Central Park
“Covered in blood, soaked by rain, adorned with crowns and capes: … ‘There’s nothing more magical,’ Oscar Isaac said. We spoke to actors, directors...
Yet More Untruths Uncovered In Travel Memoir “The Salt Path”
“The bestselling memoir, recently adapted into a film, was presented as a true story by its author, Raynor Winn. But a recent investigation by The...
New York Post To Launch A California Counterpart
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. plans to run the California Post as a conservative tabloid with an irreverent streak, a robust online presence and a...
Studio Museum Of Harlem Sets Firm Opening Date
“After the Museum closed its doors for renovations in 2018, it would take seven years and a $300 million capital campaign that nearly doubled its...
Chicago Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya Announces That She’s Leaving The U.S.
Said the former music director of Chicago Opera Theater, “I want to be sure that my children grow up feeling like they can always express...
Britain’s Royal Ballet And Opera Cancels Production Rental To Israeli Company
Following an open letter signed by nearly 200 staffers — a letter which explicitly referenced the house’s recent rental of its staging of Turandot...
What The Marshmallow Test Misunderstood About Children’s Development
“It wasn’t so much that we’d failed to replicate (the study’s) famous longitudinal results. It was more that our study confirmed a nagging message that...
One Of America’s Busiest Audiobook Narrators Fights For Better Pay For Her Colleagues
Julia Whelan: “The only reason I was doing 70 books a year was because that’s how many books you have to do when you’re...
Remembering Peter Sellers At 100: The World’s Greatest Comic Actor?
Christopher Guest: “I can do a voice, but Sellers was embedded in those characters, and that commitment made it very different.” Michael McKean: “I...
