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Met Opera And Stagehands Union Reach Agreement
"The company's roughly 300 stagehands were locked out late last year because of a disagreement over how long and lasting pandemic pay cuts would...
England’s Arts Venues Can Operate At Full Capacity Starting July 19
Just two more weeks, then no more three-foot distancing and no more mandatory masks, said Boris Johnson. - Variety
The New Hotness In Exotic Dance? Lesbian Doms Performing For Straight Women
" are pioneering a new style: masculinized lesbian stripping that appeals both to the LGBTQ community and to a straight female crowd — the...
What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’
"When adversaries in politics go low, one has no choice but to go equally low, if not lower, in order to have the same...
This Flight Attendant Wrote A Hair-Raising Novel By Jotting It On Cocktail Napkins
Author T.J. Newman: "I said , 'What would you do if your family was kidnapped and you were told that if you didn't crash...
Bollywood Isn’t Nimble Enough To Have Made COVID Films Already, But This Indian Film...
The Malayalam-language cinema, based in India's best-educated state, Kerala, has managed to produce compelling dramas dealing with the pandemic — from a two-hander shot...
How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’
Director Keith Warner assembled a cast made up entirely of opera singers, headed by such major names as John Tomlinson, Thomas Allen, Kim Begley,...
How Charleston Is Finally Reckoning With Its History In The Slave Trade
From the Old Slave Mart on Chalmers Street to historic plantations and downtown mansions to the new International African American Museum to walking tours...
A Deep Dive Into The Ancient Egyptian Tombs At Saqqara
Once the necropolis for the Pharaohs' capital city of Memphis, Saqqara has lately been the most exciting and productive archaeological site in Egypt. Here's...
It’s The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th Birthday, And Socialist Realism Is Back
Not only are they reviving classics of the Cultural Revolution like The Red Detachment of Women, new works celebrating the Party's achievements are being...
Chicago Tribune Puts Theater Critic Chris Jones In Charge Of Editorial Page
The move follows the paper's loss of 40 journalists since Alden Global Capital bought the Tribune earlier this year. Jones says he'll continue to...
Composer Louis Andriessen Dead At 82
He combined Philip Glass-style minimalism with influences ranging from jazz to Baroque music to Stravinsky to hard rock, not to mention leftist politics. He...
Daniele Gatti To Succeed Zubin Mehta In Florence
Fired from Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2018, Gatti then had a stint as chief conductor at the Rome Opera. He now succeeds the...
Florida Man Says He’s The One Who Invented Invisible Sculpture, May Sue Artist Who...
In early June in Milan, conceptual artist Salvatore Garau auctioned off an "immaterial sculpture" for €15,000. Now performance artist Tom Miller points out that...
The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky
François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra, Les Siècles, like to play concerts with Rameau in the first half and Ravel in the second, or Debussy...
Lucinda Childs At ’81 On Paper’
"She's most associated with the Judson Dance Theater and New York's downtown arts scene of the '60s and '70s, a hub of radical musicians,...
Let’s Give Mae West Credit As The Auteur She Was
She doesn't get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and...
‘La Madre De La Telenovela’, Delia Fiallo, Dead At 96
She started out writing radio serials in 1940s Cuba, switched to TV, fled the Castro regime in 1966 and started over in Miami —...
New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum...
As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire...
Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership...
Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years
Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she...
This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star's 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here's a...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from...
Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
It's 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there's still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors,...
Inside The Workshop Where Some Of The World’s Best Pointe Shoes Are Made
A visit to Freed of London, where 24 skilled craftspeople make ballet shoes, many custom-fitted for dancers at the likes of Britain's Royal Ballet...
