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Broadway Had Its Second-Highest Attendance In History Last Season
More than 14.7 million seats were filled in 2024-25, according to the latest audience-demographics report from The Broadway League. Among other findings is that,...
Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight
The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script...
Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After...
Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry...
Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now
Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits...
How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years?
The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades....
Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In...
“The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars...
Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years
“According to data released ... on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the...
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite
And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new...
Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Music Director, Takes On A Second Position
Next September, the French contralto-turned-conductor will begin a four-year term as music and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. She...
“The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration
The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston...
The Muny In St. Louis To Get $9.5 Million Renovation Next Fall
The beloved outdoor theater will replace all 11,000-odd seats and make structural improvements to protect against flooding, which caused serious damage after a torrential...
Performance At La Scala Ends Early After Conductor Riccardo Chailly Falls Ill
During the second intermission of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on Wednesday evening, a very weak Chailly was taken to a Milan hospital and...
Royal Ballet Star Matthew Ball Is Moving Into Choreography
And he’s not going to be a rule-breaker, trying to revolutionize the art form: “There’s nothing wrong with organic movement. … There’s a reason...
A.A. Milne, Author Of Winnie-the-Pooh, Also Wrote Romance Novels
“For the next fifty years, females of all ages both delighted and troubled him. He was not sure he ever understood them, but …...
Frank Lloyd Wright Also Designed Typeface Fonts
What’s more, those fonts have been adapted for digital use. - Artnet
Historic Movie Palace Is Remade Into Palm Springs’ New Performing Arts Center
The Plaza Theatre had a star-studded opening in 1936, with the premiere of the Greta Garbo vehicle Camille. But it fell on hard times...
Philly Fringe Returns To Regular-Season Programming
“The legendary festival, known for experimental and boundary-pushing theater, previously offered year-round programming before the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. In recent years, it has...
Emily Nussbaum Named The New Yorker’s Theatre Critic
“Nussbaum, a highly respected culture writer who received a Pulitzer Prize for her television criticism, has been a member of the New Yorker writing...
As Benin Bronzes Are Being Returned To Nigeria, There’s Nowhere Suitable Which Can Display...
When 100 of the restituted sculptures were exhibited last month in Benin City, there was no high-tech security and the labels were on paper...
People Over 70 Who Listen To Music Daily Face Significantly Lower Risk Of Dementia,...
“A major new study led by researchers at Monash University (in Melbourne) … found that daily musical engagement correlates with a marked reduction in...
A New Solti Conducting Competition Is Starting Up In Budapest
This one, which takes place next October, will involve the Hungarian Radio Symphony and Hungarian National Philharmonic and is being organized by Müpa, Budapest’s...
Baritone Jubilant Sykes, 71, Stabbed To Death
A Grammy-nominee (for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass conducted by Marin Alsop) who moved smoothly between classical, musical theater, and gospel, Sykes was found dead in...
2025 Turner Prize Goes To Nigerian-Scottish Artist Nnena Kalu
“Kalu, an autistic artist with learning disabilities and limited verbal communication, … (won) for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming...
Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” At 50
How the landmark modern dance was created, whom it influenced, and why it’s still magical today. - The New York Times
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes Its Interim Artistic Director Permanent
Richard A. Freeman Jr. served on an interim basis for two seasons, including holding the company together through the turmoil following the firing of...
