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Nine Years In Prison For Former Principal At English National Ballet
Yat-Sen Chang was convicted on twelve counts of sexual assault on female students in London between 2009 and 2016. Born and trained in Cuba,...
England’s Theatres Are Open, No Masks Or Distancing Required, And Feelings Are Mixed
"How are theater fans feeling about this new normal? Has the pandemic changed what they're seeing, and how they're seeing it? We spoke to...
The Strange Journey Of South Africa’s Most Popular Magazine
Perhaps surprisingly in 2021, that magazine is in Afrikaans: Huisgenoot ("Home Companion"), founded in 1916 to help form a national Afrikaner consciousness in the...
The Mind-Boggling History That Shapes South Korea’s Popular Cultural Exports
Think about it: Parasite and Squid Game are pretty weird: intense drama, occasional shocking violence and dark satire jumbled with juvenile humor and an...
Tom Lehrer, Remembered By Someone Who Was At His First And Last Public Concerts
Jeremy Bernstein: "When I was a graduate student Tom and I sometimes had lunch at the (Harvard) Graduate Center. On one occasion a student...
Native American Radio In The Big City
There's a long history of radio serving indigenous Americans, but most of it involves dedicated stations serving individual tribes in rural areas. Here's a...
Meet America’s Oldest Working Actor
In Chicago, Mike Nussbaum, 97, is "a part of theatrical history. And the people who run the theaters all know me. They know that...
The Wildly Popular Immersive Art Experiences Of The Late 1800s
"Never heard of cycloramas? Understandable, since they have all but vanished from memory. There are still a few around, though, reminders that, in their...
A Lifeline For Boys Who Get Tormented For Studying Ballet
"Through town halls and one-on-one virtual mentorships, which are open to dancers around the world," Boys Who Dance "aims to help students overcome bullying,...
First There Was Wall Street’s “Charging Bull”. Then Came “Fearless Girl”. Now There’s A...
Why? Because capitalism has gone bananas. So now there are 10,000 bananas (real ones) piled around Charging Bull, with a seven-foot statue of the...
WBEZ And The Chicago Sun-Times: Can Public Radio Really Rescue Print Journalism?
"Similar mergers and acquisitions have become a common way to bolster the struggling print industry, but if radio were to take on a major...
The Returning Broadway Audience Has A Whole New Set Of Pre-Show Rituals
"Coming back has entailed a few adjustments: the ability to deftly juggle proofs of vaccination and photo IDs and tickets to get inside; preshow...
Oslo’s Towering New Edvard Munch Museum
"Rebranded simply as MUNCH, it will open on 22 October following a decade of development drama, political U-turns and staggering logistical challenges. The result...
Yes, Eun Sun Kim Has Made Opera History, But She’d Rather Just Be A...
She's music director at San Francisco Opera and principal guest conductor at Houston Grand Opera, and she's the first woman and first Asian in...
Camille A. Brown Brings Black Social Dance To The Met Opera Stage
"When was the last time a dance stopped an opera in its tracks?" That's what happened after the fraternity scene (step choreography by Brown)...
How Ancient Greek Tragedy Works (And It Does) As Group Therapy
Bryan Doerries, director of Theater of War, "Dozens of Marines of every rank had stood up and quoted lines from the ancient plays from...
Meeting (Potential) Audiences Where They Are… With A Mobile Barbershop
That's what Keenan Scott II did to attract new people to his recently opened Broadway play, Thoughts of a Colored Man, one of eight...
Why George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Has Remained Relevant For 150 Years
One reason, it must be said, is that a certain type of person wants to be seen as loving the book. (Yep, virtue-signaling.) Yet...
Why It’s Good That UCLA Is Selling Its Picasso But Bad That The Met...
What it all comes down to, writes Christopher Knight, is what the money from the sale will be used for. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles...
On Producing PBS Pledge Drive Specials
"In the case of fundraising programming, there are no awards for style points. Does it pledge? Is it constructed for that purpose? It may...
Paul McCartney Writes About The Genesis Of “Eleanor Rigby”
"Initially, the priest was 'Father McCartney,' because it had the right number of syllables. I took the song to John at around that point,...
Rolling Stone Wants To Be A Hard-Hitting Newsmagazine Again
Hoping to shake off the last lingering shame from the disastrous UVA rape-case article, new editor Noah Shachtman and CEO Gus Wenner (Jann's son)...
Vienna’s Museums Now Have An Onlyfans Site To Promote The Nudes In Their Collections
Why? Because Facebook, Instagram and TikTok keep taking down their nude artworks — Peter Paul Rubens, Egon Schiele, even the Venus of Willendorf —...
Coloratura Soprano Legend Edita Gruberová Dead At 74
She set new standards, both vocally and dramatically (especially as a comedienne), in some of the most technically difficult roles in the repertory: Zerbinetta...
The Professor Who Showed Us That Teaching Writing Is More Than Just Correcting Mistakes
Mike Rose at UCLA "heralded a paradigm shift in the way writing is taught in our educational system. … (He) asked teachers to understand...
