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Remembering Revered, And Also Beloved, Composer Kaija Saariaho
Composers rarely get to be as loved as they are honored. But Saariaho's "music has informed aspects of European, American and Asian music, and...
Reading A Wrinkle In Time And Dealing With Real-World Loss Of A Parent
"I'm in Camazotz, I think as I drive to see my Dad. I identify most strongly with the book's Meg Murry, the ornery teen...
A Story Ballet For A Hoped-For New Audience
Audience numbers are down at American Ballet Theater. So: Like Water for Chocolate. "For people who might not be familiar with the great abstract...
On Strike From TV, But Staying Busy In Theatre
Tori Sampson is "one of the many, many writers who love the theater but who make a lot of their living in TV." She...
Carol Higgins Clark, Actress And Writer, 66
Clark was "a writer of popular suspense novels who infused the corpses-and-clues genre with doses of dark humor, while also teaming up with her...
Center Theatre’s Shocking Taper Announcement Reflects Wider Woes
Post COVID-19 shutdowns, theatres everywhere are "fighting to keep doors open despite dwindling ticket sales, increased production costs and hesitant, recession-wary donors. The result:...
Muti Just Can’t Quit Chicago
He's stepping down at the Chicago Symphony, but only sort of - because who is stepping up? "Since his successor has not yet been...
What It Was Like Working With Glenda Jackson When She Returned To Acting From...
"It was the greatest privilege of my career. Glenda was overly fearless as a performer, and overly fearless as a woman. To come out...
Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Has Died At 92
His leak of the papers "led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration — serving as the...
Horror Gaming, Oddly Enough, Can Be A Real Haven For Minoritized Gamers
"LGBT and black streamers say audiences who feel marginalised in other communities feel safest and happiest when they're playing horror games. And they believe...
Workers At Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum (Finally) Vote To Unionize
"The bargaining unit includes curators, conservators, security guards, retail workers, marketers and members of various other departments," and the 60-5 vote comes after two...
Pina Bausch’s Dance Company Goes On, With Its Fifth Director Since Her Death
But what is Tanztheater Wuppertal without Bausch? Answers may come as the group celebrates its 50th anniversary. In addition, there's now "a shortlist of...
Grammy Awards Will Only Go To ‘Human Creators,’ Recording Academy Says
Some AI is OK, but not all AI. "'A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any category,' they said, under...
Brooklyn Museum Employees Have A Couple Of Weeks Accept Or Reject Final Contract Offer
The union is not enamored of the offer from the museum's negotiators. "It locks us into a long contract with much lower increases in...
Catalan Separatists Would Like University Classes Taught In The Actual Local Language
Spanish-speaking academics, and some international students, are not into it. An admininstrator: "We’re convinced that we can express ourselves in Catalan and become internationally...
Art Spiegelman On The Maus Bannings – And Book Burnings
"That’s where it got really surreal, when they decided it was sexually explicit, because anybody who could get their jollies off of Maus is probably in...
Melbourne’s ‘Stupid And Delightful’ World-Record-Breaking Kazoo Event
"Standing in the square waiting for this moment, spontaneous kazooing broke out. We kazooed to Rick Astley (Cursed). We kazooed to Pachelbel’s Canon (as...
There’s Now A One-Stop Shopping App For Theatre In New York And London
"The new venture, called Hollywood.com Live, has acquired the theater-focused media company Theatrely. Under the Hollywood.com Live banner, the venture has begun selling tickets online to Broadway,...
What’s The Point Of ‘Diverse’ Retellings Of Jane Austen?
"Am I, a brown-skinned immigrant daughter who never got to read about or see characters like me in novels and films, simply reclaiming these...
On The Road With Joyce DiDonato’s Climate Change Song Cycle
DiDonato: "I think there’s a lot of power in putting on a legitimate, high-level concert, but challenging the audience to take home something more...
The Satirical War Film That Churchill Tried To Ban
As The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp turns 80, it's good that Prime Minister Winston Churchill didn't get his way after writing to...
Presenting A Revolution In Women’s Bodies Onstage
Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger "presents women’s ability to endure discomfort as something to be celebrated, but also questioned. Our resilience is mighty and formidable...
What Paris Can Teach London About Architecture
Some Brits might bristle, but Paris's building height restriction lessons are real. "Skyscrapers are like air travel: they used to be as glamorous as...
Just How Dirty *Is* The Bible?
Events in the U.S. lead to the question. "Following the implementation of legislation prohibiting 'pornographic or indecent' literature in Utah’s public schools, a complaint...
The Tonys Started At The Right Time On Paramount Plus, But
They were the 2022 version, not this year's show. Since Ariana DeBose hosted both, that added to the confusion. "The problem, it turns out,...
