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“The Worst Idea In History” — ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ At 50
That phrase is how one potential investor rejected Andrew Lloyd Webber’s proposal to stage the rock opera he wrote with Tim Rice. (That's why...
Nathalie Stutzmann Named Music Director Of Atlanta Symphony
Stutzmann, a former contralto from France who's currently principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will start an initial four-year term at the ASO's...
Some Early Good News From The WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times Merger
In a Q&A, two senior executives at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) say that they no plans to reduce the newspaper's seven-days-per-week print schedule and...
Inside The Rebuilding Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall: Will The Acoustics Finally Be...
"Renovation is a weak term for this undertaking. … Acousticians scrutinized every block and beam in the auditorium and the architects bent their design...
Merch! Netflix Does Deal With Walmart To Sell Lots Of Branded Stuff
Hoo-boy. "The new Netflix Hub at Walmart will bring Netflix-branded gadgets, clothes, music and games to Walmart's online store exclusively. … (It) will also...
LA’s Center Theatre Group Promises All-Female-Playwright Season Next Year (And Gets ‘Slave Play’ Back)
After criticism for programming few plays by women this season, culminating in Jeremy O. Harris pulling Slave Play from the schedule there, CTG says...
Paddy Moloney, Founder Of The Chieftains And Hero Of Irish Folk Revival, Dead At...
For nearly 60 years, playing his tin whistle and uilleann pipes, he and his supergroup brought Irish traditional music to the world, making nearly...
A Temporary, Prefab Concert Hall At A Disused Power Plant On The Edge Of...
That's what they're hoping for in Munich, where the Gasteig has closed for a multiyear renovation. Both the city's orchestras will be performing at...
W. G. Sebald Said He Stayed True To His Subjects In Big Things and...
It was the details, many of them none too plausible, that were true; the larger outline of the stories and characters were what was...
It’s Taken Decades, But The Yurok Language Of California Is Coming Back
This indigenous tongue of northern California was severely endangered by the early 1900s, and efforts to revive it didn't begin until the 1970s (and...
She Has MS. She’s Continuing Her Career As A Ballet Dancer
Abby Phillips Maginity of Ballet Arizona was diagnosed while she was rehearsing for her first principal role — and just as the pandemic was...
Here’s The First Woman To Be Named Music Director Of A Major Italian Opera...
Oksana Lyniv, the 43-year-old Ukrainian who this summer became the first female conductor at Bayreuth and who last year finished a term leading the...
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Utopian Ideal For A 21st-Century Museum
"I keep returning to an unrealized project of the late philosopher, public intellectual, and curator Édouard Glissant, who consistently told me that what matters...
The Horrific Contest In “Squid Game” Reflects A Real-Life Crisis In South Korea
"The wildly popular dystopian drama pits the heavily indebted against each other … for an unimaginably large cash prize. But (the) desperate situation is...
One Of The World’s Most Notorious Art Forgers Is Releasing His Own NFT Collection
"Fittingly, the artist (Wolfgang Beltracchi) — infamous for his uncanny ability to mimic the work of others — is making 4,608 versions of Leonardo...
Hollywood Has A New Champion Boss-From-Hell: Sharon Waxman Of TheWrap
Move over, Scott Rudin. As one former staffer put it, "I don't say this lightly. Sharon Waxman is one of the most awful people...
Is Releasing A Movie Only In Theaters Elitist And Unfair?
"How is it that a quintessentially democratic cultural activity — buying a ticket and some popcorn and finding a seat in the dark —...
More Than Half Of British Theatres Have Gone Back To In-Person-Only Performances
"Research has found that 56% of publicly subsidised theatres that had at least one online performance during the first 18 months of the pandemic...
Progress: Italy’s Arts Venues Allowed To Open At Full Capacity
"After months of struggling with an income from 50% houses the Council of Ministers has decided that theatres, cinemas, and cultural venues in the...
Oscar Wilde — Martyr? Wit? Predator? Artist? “Posing Somdomite”? All Of The Above, Which...
"The refracted versions of self that appear in his writing allowed him to test out real-life modes of being; in turn, the acts of...
Explaining The Unexplainable Career Of Laurie Anderson
Sam Anderson: "The anti-careerism of her career is part of what has made her illegible to mainstream audiences. Although a legend in some circles,...
How A Little Book-Of-The-Month Mail-Order Club Laid Ground For The Gay Rights Movement
"In early-1950s America, Donald Webster Cory had probably the largest L.G.B.T. mailing list in the country, and maybe in the world." (Mr. Cory was...
So How Did the Elgin Marbles End Up At The British Museum In The...
The short answer is that Lord Elgin simply took them from the Parthenon and shipped them home to London. True as such, but, as...
Verbatim Drama, Straight From Real Life, Comes To Broadway
Tina Satter, whose Is This A Room is a transcript of the FBI interrogation of intelligence leaker Reality Winner, and Lucas Hnath, whose Dana...
What Runaway Hit “Squid Game” Shows About South Korea’s Problems (It Isn’t Pretty)
"(The Netflix series's success) might be somewhat ironic given that Squid Game is all about socioeconomic divides, the exploitation of the poor by the...
