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Alaska’s Public Radio Stations Could Be Hit Hardest By Federal Defunding
There are 27 rural public radio stations in the state, most of them serving small communities with little other media and hundreds of miles...
Theater Audiences Are Slowly Coming Back In Philadelphia (As Long As They Can Get...
About 71% of theaters there have seen audience numbers improve since the COVID shutdowns, though only 41% are back to pre-2020 levels. The major...
The Lion King’s Longest-Running Rafiki Retires After 25 Years
Tshidi Manye has played the mandrill shaman who sings “Circle of Life” in roughly 9,000 performances, a large majority of them on Broadway. -...
Shirley Ririe, Utah’s Pioneer Of Modern Dance, Has Died At 96
With colleague Joan Woodbury, who died in 2023, she founded the state’s first contemporary troupe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in 1964 and developed it into...
A “Hamilton”-Style Hip-Hop Musical About Scottish Hero William Wallace (Yes, Braveheart)
“Hip-hop, (songwriter Dave Hook) argues, has never blandly replicated itself, but always adapted to new circumstances. … By giving hip-hop a Scottish voice and,...
Chicago Reader Saved From Closure By Owner Of Seattle Alt-Weekly The Stranger
The 54-year-old paper, one of the US’s oldest alt-weeklies, made major layoffs and narrowly avoided shutting down in January. The Reader has now been...
Starling Lawrence, Editor With A Nose For Bestsellers, Dead At 82
“For more than five decades at W.W. Norton, (he) waded into the so-called slush pile ... to discover unsung authors and to help fashion...
Simon & Schuster CEO Is Stepping Down To Launch New Imprint
Jonathan Karp became CEO in 2020 and steered the publishing house through COVID, an antitrust case and a change in ownership. He’s moving on...
A New Artistic Director At Louisville Ballet
Anthony Krutzkamp, a Kentucky native, is currently both artistic and executive director at Sacramento Ballet, where he achieved record ticket sales, formed a second...
Philadelphia Is About To Suffer Massive Transit Cuts. What Will That Mean For The...
With funding stalled in the state legislature, transit agency SEPTA instituted a 20% service cut in the city last week and will make drastic...
Van Gogh Museum Says It May Have To Close Without More Money From Dutch...
“The museum … needs a refurbishment to preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh, but two years...
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Cuts Its Workforce By 25%
Following Congress’s elimination of federal funding of public TV and radio and state-level finding cuts, SDPB is laying off 15 staffers and eliminating five...
Fired Trinity Wall Street Music Director Arrested For Possession Of Child Porn
Julian Wachner, who established Trinity Church Wall Street as a dynamic force in New York’s classical music scene, only to be dismissed following an...
Edinburgh International Festival Sees Best Ticket Sales In A Decade
“2025’s EIF season, themed ‘The Truth We Seek’, sold 88% of available tickets. The figure is up by 29% on last year, when EIF...
Did Three Malevich Paintings Really Turn Up Under A Retiree’s Bed When She Moved?
So says the owner of the works, Yaniv Cohen, who claims he was given them by his wife’s grandmother, whose father acquired them secretly...
Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Reopens After Seven-Year Renovation
The Citizens Theatre closed in 2018 for what was supposed to be a three-year rehabilitation. The COVID pandemic, and the ensuing inflation, both delayed...
John Williams Doesn’t Think Very Highly Of Film Music (Including His Own)
“Film music, however good it can be – and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … The music...
Edinburgh International Festival Says Demand To Give Up Baillie Gifford As Sponsor “Threatens Our...
“The festival said (the) demand for it to end its commercial partnership with the Edinburgh-based fund manager ‘ultimately reduces the very spaces where difficult...
Memoir Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Most Prominent Accuser Will Be Published Posthumously
Virginia Giuffre spent several years completing Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice with co-author Amy Wallace. On April 1,...
Comedian Reginald Carroll, 52, Shot To Death In Mississippi
Police officers found Carroll wounded in Southaven, Mississippi, immediately south of Memphis, at the offices of the merchandise company for a fellow comedian with...
Kennedy Center Names New Director Of Dance Programming, One Who Complained About “Leftist Ideologies...
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, was hired just days after the Kennedy Center fired its entire dance programming staff. Nakagawa...
“Emily In Paris” Crew Member Collapses And Dies On Set
Diego Borella, an assistant director on the Netflix series, had a sudden heart attack as he and colleagues were preparing to shoot a scene...
Ticket Sales Were Flat For 2025 Edinburgh Fringe
“The figures showed around 2.6 million tickets were sold for 3,893 shows — a similar level to last year and well below the peak...
Teddy Abrams Extends At Louisville Orchestra For Three More Years
“Over the course of his tenure, Abrams has transformed the mission of the Louisville Orchestra, molding it into what he describes as a ‘public...
What Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick Has To Say For Himself Now That He’s Out...
“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that...
