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Watching Auditions For A WNBA Dance Squad
“More than 100 dancers auditioned for just 21 spots on the New York Liberty’s cheerleading team, the Timeless Torches. Founded in 2005, less than...
You Know Who Else Really Hates Trump’s Tariffs? Hollywood
The rough economic times caused by the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 COVID shutdown were hard on the industry, but back then, at least,...
Why Multi-Hour Classical Works Are Way Too Much Of A Good Thing
“It’s not that these are great pieces that happen to be long; the length itself is the point. The language – ‘endurance’, ‘epic’, ‘marathon’...
Should We Really Be Able To Read Joan Didion’s Diary Entries About Her Psychiatrist...
“Didion left no instructions about the (diary), so nobody knows how she would feel about its publication as a book, titled Notes to John....
Book Subscription Services Are Starting To Publish Titles Themselves
“It makes sense, then, that subscription services want to push their curation skills further, by commissioning, editing, and publishing titles that aren’t already in...
Cellist Joel Krosnick Dead At 84
“He was the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet from 1974-2016, and a renowned teacher at New York’s Juilliard School. … His passion for contemporary...
More Staff Layoffs At Nashville Symphony
The orchestra is facing “financial challenges driven by inflation, shifting consumer behavior, an increasingly competitive landscape and broader economic uncertainty.” - Nashville Business Journal
David Geffen And The Billionaire Who Bought And Ate The Banana On The Wall...
“In January 2024, the work” — titled Le Nez — was sold to Geffen, seemingly on (Patrick) Sun’s behalf. Sun now says the sale...
Broadway Is Selling A Lot Of Tickets To Young Adults
The 18-to-25 demographic isn’t usually considered a target audience for a circuit where tickets are so expensive, but the last couple of seasons have...
Have A Look Around The Grand Egyptian Museum, Now Open At Long Last
“There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed. ... Its construction has been such...
All About The Ocarina
This odd wind instrument, whose name is Italian for “little goose,” was invented more-or-less by chance in 1853 in a little town near Bologna....
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross” Isn’t A Critique Of Cutthroat Capitalism
“What if … Glengarry is instead celebrating the deceit, in fact presenting it as the epitome of manliness? What if Glengarry Glen Ross, quite possibly in ways...
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Smelled As Good As They Looked
“An archaeologist and curator … in Copenhagen finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like rose, olive oil and beeswax. These...
It’s Not Easy Finding Jurors For Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial
“Several dismissed jurors were open about why they couldn’t serve fairly. (One) told a pool reporter, ‘I don’t like the guy; he is a...
Why The “Odyssey” Is All Over The Place Right Now
“The Iliad is the poem of death. Death stalks its lines, blood soaks it. Countless young men appear in the poem only to be cut down. … But...
On The “Odyssey” And Its Ubiquity And Oddity
“We can read the Odyssey today with a sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these...
Preemptive Compliance: Orlando Suspends DEI Arts Grants “Out Of An Abundance Of Caution”
“Organizations impacted include Opera Orlando, the Orlando Ballet, and the Orlando Science Center, to name a few. The canceled grants total $200,000 dollars and were earmarked for arts...
Number Of Productions Staged By British Theatres Has Plummeted Over Last Decade
“The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres last year was down by almost a third compared with 10...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Accuses Russians Of Selling Off Art And Artifacts They’ve Looted
“Russia has stolen more than 1.7 million pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage since its full-scale invasion began, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and...
Bigger-Bodied Ballet Dancers Are The Future, Says Head Of Royal Ballet School
“Iain Mackay, artistic director of the school, said studios were focusing on strength-based training for both sexes as ballet moved away from the ‘slim’...
After Harvard Rejects His Demands, Trump Threatens Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
“’Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting...
It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist
“The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was...
Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”
“In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That...
