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Fired Members Of Dallas Black Dance Theatre Reunite For A Final Performance
The National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor and they're getting compensation, but the ten dancers are declining to return to DBDT. So...
Ballet Genius/Putin Superfan/Notorious Train Wreck Sergei Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia
The Ukrainian-born dancer, who has three tattoos of Putin (despite the Russian military's near-obliteration of his hometown, Kherson), now says "My time in Russia...
Nearly 15,000 Media Jobs In The US Were Eliminated In 2024
"While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to...
Why Some Non-Christian Composers Are Attracted To Christmas Material: David Lang
"Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the...
The Top 10 Bookselling Stories Of 2024
"We saw booksellers, publishers, and others in the industry step up to aid stores that sustained extensive hurricane damage, call for greater rights and...
What Nonprofit Theater Leaders Told The NEA
"(A) series of listening sessions, held this past summer, helped the (NEA theater) team to learn more about evolving challenges, successful strategies, and potential...
Will This Be The First Broadway Musical Whose Title Role Is A Dead Body?
"Dead Outlaw, a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on...
Is The World’s Largest Fully-Functioning Musical Instrument In Jeopardy?
The organ in the old Wanamaker's department store, right across from City Hall, is a Philadelphia icon. Yet the store, currently a Macy's, is...
Use Our Copyrighted Material To Train AI? Oh Hell No, Huge Coalition Tells UK...
"Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies...
This Upstart Publisher Got 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Single Year
Three years ago, the only author on Bloom Books' list was E.L. James (the Fifty Shades of Grey series). Now it publishes over 40...
SF-MOMA Fires One Of Its Top Curators
"Eungie Joo, who served as head curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for seven years, was fired after...
Remember, “A Christmas Carol” Is Not Dickens’s Only Christmas Story
It's not even Dickens's only Christmas ghost story. And some of them are much weirder and more unsettling than the famous one. - Literary...
This Completely Legal Musical Is Totally Not About Raygun The Olympic Breakdancer
Two weeks ago, comedian Steph Broadbridge cancelled Raygun: The Musical just before its Sydney premiere after notorious-Olympic-breaker-and-viral-sensation Dr. Rachael Gunn's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist...
Did Shakespeare Commit Suicide? A Scholar Makes The Case
Larry Lockridge, professor emeritus at NYU: "I’ll air my conviction that death by suicide is more probable than the notion that Edward de Vere,...
Producers Of “The Jerry Springer Show” Look Back On What They Wrought
Says one, "Please tell me the difference between the fight I saw on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills last night and The Jerry Springer...
France’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Has Serious Problems, Says Government’s Top Auditor
"The Cour des Comptes has found several faults with France’s Culture Pass, which gives 18-year-olds €300 to spend on just about any cultural activity...
Kent Nagano Named Next Artistic Director Of Spain’s National Orchestra And Choir
The 73-year-old California native, currently finishing his term as general music director of the Hamburg State Opera, will succeed David Afkham as chief conductor...
This Year, Distributors And Streamers Won’t Go Near Documentaries On Sensitive Subjects
Even when they're getting excellent reviews and prizes, docs like No Other Land (about the West Bank), Union (about labor organizing at an Amazon...
Ensemble At One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theatres Walks Out, Demands Board Chair’s Removal
"The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company … has told the Tribune it has 'unanimously decided to not participate in any production,...
How Could MIT Buy And Build Land Art By Maya Lin And Not Tell...
The series of 11 grass-covered mounds, titled The Sound We Travel At, is a physical representation of Doppler waves. It's right in busy Kendall...
Sam Goody Is Closing Its Last Two Brick-And-Mortar Music Stores
"Since 2022, the chain’s last two stores were located in the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and the Rogue Valley Mall in...
Notre-Dame Cathedral Reveals Design For New Stained-Glass Windows
"Designs for six new stained glass windows in fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral were unveiled for the first time on Wednesday, with contemporary French painter Claire...
Far-Right Propagandists Are Using AI-Generated Songs To Spread Hate
While the practice currently seems to be most common in Europe, it's been documented from the US to India to Australia as well. Groups...
The Great Documentarian Of Indonesia’s Massacres Makes A Tilda Swinton Musical (Wait, What?)
Joshua Oppenheimer, who convinced participants of the 1965-66 mass executions to re-enact them for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The...
Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar Diva And Grande Dame Of Spanish Cinema, Has Died At 78
While she appeared in 75 movies by directors ranging from Francisco Trueba to Guillermo del Toro, she's best known outside the Spanish-speaking world for...
