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Broadway Is Really Into Drag, But Why?
A new Some Like It Hot musical tries to balance painful depictions "and the rich reality of drag as art, self-expression, and everything in between....
A Chinese Musician Is Working To Revive The Gehu
The gehu, an instrument which was introduced into Chinese orchestras in the 20th century and then replaced by the cello, "has four strings, a...
Arts Groups Must Innovate If They Want An Audience
The pandemic accelerated a generational shift: "Past program choices are not adequately energizing younger audiences. They want the experience to be new and different,...
It’s Not Just The Oscars Failing Black Women – It’s The Whole Ecosystem
"What does it say that the Black women who did everything the institution asks of them — luxury dinners, private academy screenings, meet-and-greets, splashy...
After A Long Campaign, The UK’s Royal Opera House Cuts Ties With British Petroleum
That long campaign was by climate activists, one of whom said, "What we are witnessing is a seismic shift, a near wholesale rejection across...
What Gives Food Its Taste?
Turns out it's what's already in your mouth. "When people eat, he explains, they don’t actually savor the food itself, but a mixture of...
The Joys Of Revisiting Edna Ferber
Even a century ago, "Ferber is not interested in cautionary tales of shrinking violets, favoring instead women who, out of necessity or desire or...
Why Did Cate Blanchett Choose Her Role In Tar?
Because, she says, she's "an experience junkie" - and playing a conductor was a new and challenging experience. - El País
British Opera Singer Creates A Work Based On Music Of Enslaved Ancestors
Baritone Peter Braithwaite: "These folk traditions are really strong; they’re about resistance and they’re about remembrance of former freedoms, but they’re also about laying...
There’s An Inheritance Battle Over the Site Of Caravaggio’s Only Known Ceiling Mural
The Texas-born "Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi has ... defied the court order demanding she vacate Rome’s Villa Aurora. The property is known for...
Victor Navasky, Editor Of The Nation And Voice For Progressive Journalism, 90
Navasky "appreciated the work of making news stories passionate and beguiling. He told NPR he watched Fox News for years, because Bill O'Reilly and...
Why Is The Rebuild At The Glasgow School Of Art Taking So Long?
The post-fire clearance took forever - "'intricate and painstaking' work, done by hand, of removing from the site and evaluating in excess of 2,400...
The Rise Of Queer Comics, And Why Bans Will Backfire
"Long before witty digital comics found a home on your Instagram feed, depicting things from the struggle with Grindr to birth-control access, there were...
Dance Artists Of Color Are Getting More Chances To Lead
Kiyon Ross at Pacific Northwest Ballet: "The skills you learn as a choreographer are definitely transferable to being a leader. ... You have to have...
France’s Cesar Nominations Include Many For A Movie About An Injured Dancer
"Cédric Klapisch’s Rise, about a ballet dancer (Marion Barbeau) who, after an injury, seeks a new future in contemporary dance, picked up 9 César nominations."...
Hollywood Won’t Survive Without Actual Movie Theatres
"The solution ... is simple: Put new releases exclusively in theaters and give them a real chance to succeed with paying moviegoers. No more...
Rereading Russian Classics In The Shadow Of The War In Ukraine
"The idea that great novels disclose universal human truths, or contain a purely literary meaning that transcends national politics, wasn’t evenly distributed across the...
Could Music Therapy Help Ease Long COVID?
"It seems ironic that music, one of the fields hardest hit by the global pandemic, may prove to be an effective treatment specifically for...
The Academic Career Is Broken
And half-assed reforms aren't going to fix it. "It’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether...
Why Are British MPs Declaring War On Opera?
Their reasoning: "Patronising claptrap. So, young people will only accept opera if it’s put on in a car park. The lower orders can make do...
The Nominations, Snubs, And Surprises For This Year’s Academy Awards
The fun, searing, rapidly movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led with nominations, but some actors, movies, and directors were - explicably or not...
The Arts Collective Ousted In Vienna Speaks Out
At the heart of the conflict: What is Austria? "We were trying to look beyond the Western canon as the only idea of what...
Dallas Paper Tries Replacing Its Architecture Critic With Artificial Intelligence
Things didn't go well: "Because an AI program can’t 'be there,' it ends up, like a lazy college freshman, culling what material it can...
Why Director Todd Field Employed Mahler And Elgar To Give His Film Tar Meaning
Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)
An Author Sells A Bucket List Weekend, And Fans Absolutely Line Up For It
What draws hundreds of fans of writer Elin Hilderbrand to Nantucket in January? The chance to hang out in person with the author, of...
