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Venice’s Opera House Appoints New Music Director; Musicians And Staff Revolt
This week the management of Teatro La Fenice, evidently at short notice, named as music director the 35-year-old conductor Beatrice Venezi, reportedly an associate...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Makes Its Final Grants To Local Stations Before Shutting Down
The $7.1 million being distributed is left over from the previous year’s pool of grant money; it had been allocated for grants which, in...
Crowd Of Log Cabin Republicans Show Up To Heckle Guitarist At Kennedy Center
Yasmin Williams, whose email to new Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell got a notoriously vicious response, performed there last week. Shortly before curtain, she...
Newly-Discovered John Singer Sargent Portrait On View At Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define...
For The First Time In 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Has A New Artistic...
On December 1, Nicki Hunter, who’s currently the company’s associate artistic director, will take the helm from Lynne Meadow, who grew MTC from a...
Jacob’s Pillow To Present Its First-Ever Fall Performances
Just months after most of the flagship summer festival was cancelled following the workplace death of a crew member, the dance mecca is hosting...
Lear deBessonet’s Number-One Goal For Lincoln Center Theater
“The work we make here I want it to be something that anyone of any background — whether they are visiting New York City...
Indie Filmmaker Henry Jaglom Dead At 87
As one biographical blurb put it, “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema,...
What’s Ari Shapiro Doing Next After Leaving NPR? He Honestly Does Not Know
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would...
Higher Ticket Sales, Younger Audiences, Artistic Stability, Successful Fundraising — Things Are Looking Up...
The situation wasn’t good for the orchestra in the ‘00s and ‘10s: the messy opening of the Kimmel Center, difficulties with its conductors, musician...
Iceland Tries To Make Peace With The Tourism Boom It Sought Out In The...
In 2010, to boost an economy still reeling from a 2008 banking crisis, Iceland’s government took advantage of the global attention brought by a...
Merriam-Webster Adds More Than 5,000 Words To Its Collegiate Dictionary
The 12th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update. To make room for the new words (including “hard...
Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight
Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media...
A Donald Trump-And-Jeffrey Epstein Statue Appears On, And Disappears From, DC’s National Mall
“The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in...
Houston Symphony Extends Music Director Juraj Valčuha‘s Contract
The 49-year-old Slovak conductor, previously chief conductor of Italy’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, took up the position...
NJ PBS To Close Down Next Summer
The contract between the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and New York City PBS station WNET — which has operated NJ PBS since 2011,...
Ballet Dancer Sues London Police For Stomping On His Foot And Ending His Career
“Alexander Loxton, who played the ‘older Billy’ in the West End musical Billy Elliot as well as dancing with the Royal Ballet …, says he suffered a career-wrecking...
Drunk Bats, Lizards Eating Pizza, And Cows Painted With Zebra Stripes: The 2025 Ig...
In addition to prizes presented in ten categories, the 35th first annual award ceremony — the theme: digestion — featured appearances by actual Nobel...
YouTubers Sue Burning Man For Using Nevada Police To Block Filming Of Cleanup
“The owner of a popular YouTube channel has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that organizers of the Burning Man festival prevented filmmakers from recording...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Visits The New Immersive Version Of “Phantom”
Masquerade is a $25 million reconfiguring of the long-running Broadway hit, spread out over six floors in midtown Manhattan. This version is told mostly...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Says His Upcoming US Tour Is In “Serious Jeopardy”
“A post on the singer’s Instagram on Friday said the U.S. leg of the tour ‘is in serious jeopardy due to significant delay in U.S....
Reviving Jerome Robbins’s Original Choreography For “West Side Story”
“Joshua Bergasse spoke … about his role reproducing choreography, how an iconic Broadway musical translates to an opera stage, and the efforts to achieve...
What’s Maurizio Cattelan Up To Now? A Scavenger Hunt!
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece...
Yuja Wang Appointed To Newly-Created Faculty Position At Curtis Institute
The superstar Chinese-American pianist, who herself studied at Curtis, won’t be a professor of piano giving weekly lessons. Her title, as of September next...
Scammer Who Tried To Sell Graceland Out From Under The Presleys Sentenced To Prison
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and...
