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Improv Comedy As The Vanguard Of Socialism?
"More than a year and a half into the pandemic, we've come to expect the unexpected. Perhaps the socialist revolution can start in an...
Get M.A.D.D. — This Chicago Company Is Transforming Tap Dance
"Short for 'Making a Difference Dancing Rhythms,' the tap dance company marks its 20th official season this year. … Today, M.A.D.D. Rhythms remains deeply...
How The Booker Prize Became Such A Big Deal
Charlotte Higgins: "It was by such steps" as well-timed leaks and carefully fanned disagreements "that the Booker became not just a book prize, but...
Veteran New York Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Looted Objects
"Nancy Wiener, 66, whose mother had also been a well-known expert in the field, acknowledged Thursday that she had taken possession of items that...
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Withdraws “Slave Play” From L.A. Run
The 12-time-Tony-nominated play was to open in February at the Center Theater Group's Mark Taper Forum. But the CTG has only one play by...
France’s Leading Literary Award Finally Makes Nepotism Against The Rules
Following this year's conflict-of-interest scandal (not the first), administrators of the Prix Goncourt have declared that any book by a family member or unmarried...
Two Of Shanghai’s Major Museums Close Without Explanation
Last week the Long Museum West Bund shut for "facility maintenance," though it reopened two days later. Then the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum announced,...
Gramophone Awards 2021: “Peter Grimes” Is Recording Of The Year, Minnesota Is Orchestra Of...
The Chandos release of Britten's opera stars Stuart Skelton with Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic; the Minnesota Orchestra took honors in its final...
Africa’s Film Industries Could Create 20 Million Jobs: UNESCO Study
"Most creative industries in (sub-Saharan) Africa were grossly underserved," — the major exceptions being Nigeria and Senegal — "in part due to the failure...
“Abstraction, I Think, Is Now Over,” Writes David Hockney
"It's run its course. … Its job was to take away the shadows that had dominated European art for centuries. It was only European...
Why Some College Dance Classes That Went Online During The Pandemic May Stay Online...
Some dance departments have found that lecture courses such as dance history and anatomy work perfectly well virtually (and give students some scheduling flexibility...
What Does A 550-Year-Old Tapestry Look Like After Four Years Of Cleaning? This.
The artwork, the oldest tapestry in the possession of the UK's National Trust, underwent 1,300 hours of conservation. While the colors are brighter and...
Here Are The Finalists For The 2021 National Book Awards
"A food memoir that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour, and about growing up as a Black boy in...
Tyshawn Sorey On How His Jazz Drumming And His Classical Compositions Inform Each Other
"Whenever I'm playing drums, I'm always thinking compositionally about how things develop. … Why do certain harmonies accompany the musicians in a particular way?...
Pondering Masks As Theaters Reopen And Theater Workers Meet Their Colleagues Again
Playwright Sarah Ruhl: "To ask 'How are you?' no longer felt like small talk. We relied on our eyes above our masks to make...
The Disappearance Of America’s Midsized Indie Book Publishers
Following Hachette's purchase this past summer of Workman Publishing, "there is a dearth of what can be called midsize publishers that fall between the...
IATSE Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Hollywood Strike
The vote by the affected members — cinematographers, electricians, video editors, costumers, and the like — was 98.7% in favor of greenlighting what would...
Revival Of Vinyl Records Hobbled By Shortages Of Vinyl
Worldwide sales of the old-style black discs are up 700% in a decade, so the supply chain has no slack to absorb problems caused...
Flash Floods Cause Closure Of Slovenia’s National Theater And Modern Art Museum
A total of nearly five inches of rain fell on Ljubljana on the evening of September 25, and among the many buildings to suffer...
Toni Morrison Thought This Woman Changed Black Literature Forever. She Left Public View 23...
In 1975, aged 25, Gayl Jones shook the American literary world with her novel Corregidora. After more books and a turbulent personal life, Jones...
When Virgin Voyages Wanted A Dance Show For Its Cruises, It Did Not Go...
No, Richard Branson's grownups-only cruise line chose three choreographers from The Dance Cartel. The trio couldn't believe that a cruise ship wanted their avant-garde-dance-meets-house-party...
How Did Fox News’s Right-Wing Late-Night TV Host Beat Stephen Colbert In The Ratings?
Not only because Greg Gutfeld has no conservative competition in his time slot. "Right-wing comedy has become both a viable business strategy and a...
He Acts And Directs In Four Languages. Actors Say He’s Gentle To A Fault....
Says Tiago Rodrigues, who's coming to Avignon from Portugal's Teatro Nacional, "I really love to see what happens to a play when you did...
Tommy Kirk, Teen Star Of A String Of Disney Hits, Dead At 79
In the 1950s and '60s, from ages 15 to 23, he starred in 11 Disney features, including The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The...
Industrial Vacuum Cleaners, Traps, And Micro-Wasps: How Museums Fight The Bugs That Invade During...
It's a battle even in normal times, but when the pandemic closed museums, clothes moths, silverfish, and carpet beetle larvae were left with no...
