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The Eurovision Song Contest’s Real Heroes: The Crew That Does Complete Set Changes In...
While viewers watch the introductory videos known as postcards, dozens of people swarm the stage. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off...
Mubi, Born As A Streaming Platform, Wants To Conquer Indie Cinema
Efe Cakarel founded Mubi in 2007 to stream independent art films (“the auteurs’ platform”). Now it's a studio with an Oscar winner (The Substance)...
The Backstory Of The Third Accuser, Newly Gone Public, In Harvey Weinstein’s Trial
“Her Jane Doe identity was finally cast off on the trial’s splashy opening day, when she revealed herself to be a Polish former runway...
What Gérard Depardieu’s Sexual Assault Conviction Means For France’s Movie Industry
“Young actors are calling out wrongdoing on set more and more, and (director Christophe) Ruggia received a four-year prison sentence for what he did...
Major Restoration Project At Hagia Sophia In Istanbul
“The imposing structure ... is visibly uneven in places, particularly the grand dome, which for hundreds of years has sat atop four columns of...
Crisis At Hamburg Ballet As Dancers Publicly Criticize New Artistic Director
Demis Volpi succeeded longtime director John Neumeier only last summer. Now almost half the company’s principal dancers have resigned, and more than half signed...
Pussy Riot’s Founder Goes Back Into A Prison Cell — This Time At L.A....
Nadya Tolokonnikova, who spent almost two years in a Russian penal colony as punishment for a notorious performance at Moscow’s Orthodox cathedral, will spend...
Unknown Ian Fleming Story Is Published, And It’s Not About James Bond
“’The Shameful Dream’ … is a short story about a Londoner named Caffery Bone. Fleming’s protagonist is the literary editor of Our World, a...
Playwright Donates Thousands To Replace Berkeley Rep’s Canceled NEA Grant
“Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan is donating $40,000 to Berkeley Repertory Theatre — the same amount the company was set to receive from the federal agency...
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Reverse Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
The decision, issued in a case brought by 21 state attorneys general, ruled that Trump’s executive order to close the agency violates the separation...
Music Director Of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Will Depart After Next Season
Alexander Shelley, who was just 35 when he succeeded Pinchas Zukerman in 2015, will leave Ottawa in the summer of 2026 and begin his...
Warner Bros. Discovery Revives The HBO Max Brand It Killed
“First it was HBO Go, then it was HBO Now, followed by HBO Max and ultimately just Max. But now, Warner Bros. Discovery is rebranding...
A Brief History of The Can-Can
“The identikit all-female spectacle we know so well is the opposite of how the cancan first began in the working-class dancehalls of Paris, where...
“A Hot Mess” At Philadelphia’s Arts Magnet High School
Students, parents, staff and former staff at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts say that a toxic atmosphere, worsened by allegedly...
Yum! Espresso Made From Venice Canal Water Wins Architecture Biennale’s Top Prize
The project — “Canal Café” by Diller Scofidio + Renfro — filters water from Venice’s notoriously polluted canals and lagoon through a series of...
Bay Area Is Evidently Losing Yet Another Theater Company
“Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company plans to ‘suspend’ producing shows (next season), taking a possible step toward closure. The company hopes to continue to exist in some form,...
Ten Heritage Foundation Arguments Against The NEA, And How To Answer Them
Ben Davis: “I think it’s important for NEA advocates to actually understand the spectrum of arguments ranged against them, and not rely on dated...
English National Opera Names André De Ridder Music Director
The German conductor, currently Generalmusikdirektor of the Theater Freiburg, succeeds Martyn Brabbins, who resigned in 2023 to protest ENO management’s proposed elimination of 19...
Screenwriter-Director Robert Benton, Winner Of Three Oscars, Is Dead At 92
Of the nine films he wrote and directed, the best-known are the two for which he won Academy Awards: Kramer vs. Kramer (for screenplay...
Authors Guild Sues DOGE And NEH For Cancelling Grants
“A class action lawsuit was filed Monday by the Authors Guild, along with independent scholars and writers, against the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and officials within the...
Audible To Use AI For Narrating And Translating Audiobooks (But Not All of Them)
“Today, Audible announced it would begin offering AI-powered narration to select publishers. AI translation services will launch in beta later this year.” CEO Bob Carrigan pointed...
New York State Increases Tax Credit For Broadway Productions
“Included in the $254 billion budget is an expansion of the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, known colloquially as the downstate tax...
Ireland’s New National Dance Company Makes Its Debut
“Liz Roche, Artistic Director of Luail, Ireland's all-island dance company, (writes) about the beginnings of the company, as it prepares to make its highly anticipated...
Read The Resignation Letter From NEA Literary Staffers
“We are processing a lot of complex emotions in this moment, as we imagine you are too in light of recent agency developments, but...
As The Big Streamers Retrench, Nigeria’s Filmmakers Pivot To YouTube
The country’s film industry is the world’s second largest by output, but the big streaming services who had been commissioning films have cut way...
