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With Billy Porter’s Sepsis Diagnosis, Cabaret Is Ending Its Broadway Run A Month Early

“The abrupt re-scheduled closing is a surprise finish for a staging that has been by all accounts a massive success in London's West End,...

Christoph von Dohnanyi, Longtime Director Of The Cleveland Orchestra, Dies At 95

“Dohnanyi’s adventurous programming, allied to ultra-refined and precise orchestral skills, compelled Time magazine to dub the Cleveland Orchestra ‘the best band in the land’...

Artists Are Using AI In Museums, And That Makes Its Own Meaning

“This feeling of being at the mercy of incomprehensible forces is an old one in art. For 19th-century painters of the sublime like J.M.W....

David Bowie’s Secret Final Project Was A Musical About 18th Century Britain

Who would not want to hear a rousing chorus about the 1778 Catholic Relief Act, written by Bowie? - BBC

Was The Venice Film Festival Jury Afraid Of Fallout, Or Did They Simply Pick...

Honestly: “Every jury decision is a copout. All juries are horse-trading and compromising and collectively accepting second-choice movies that no one objects to from...

Recently Released Police Reports From Jacob’s Pillow Death Indicate Some Workplace Issues

“'Moving the equipment with just Kat and an intern is the last thing that would expect Kat to try to do,’ the report...

There’s A New Game That May Crush People’s Bookshop Ownership Dreams

The game might be a little too realistic: Retail life isn’t easy, and giving book recommendations? Good luck! - Vulture

The Creative Emmys Have Begun, And Severance, The Studio, And The Penguin Are Doing...

Is this a sign of things to come for next weekend’s big Primetime Emmys night? (Alert: The Pitt won an ensemble casting award, and...

How Dutch Journalists Recovered A Nazi-Looted Portrait Based On A Real Estate Listing In...

"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish-Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in mid-May 1940 to escape the Nazis, but died...

At Premiere Of Palestine 36 At TIFF, Actors On Red Carpet Call For End...

“The film's star, Karim Daoud Anaya, posed with a plastic bag, dripping in fake blood, containing a camera and a Palestinian keffiyeh. Other members of...

Author Arundhati Roy Explains How She Persists With Writing In A Time Of Great...

Roy: “‘What have we done to democracy? What happens when it’s been used up and emptied of meaning, and every institution has been turned...

When A Singer Must Customize Her Song For Every Possible NFL Team Matchup

Carrie Underwood, winner of American Idol in 2005, has sung the musical opener for every game of Sunday Night Football for 12 years. “Underwood...

A New Portrait Of Shakespeare’s Possible ‘Fair Youth’ Has Emerged

The reverse of the probable portrait of the Earl of Southampton, a representation of a playing card heart, is defaced with a spade, or...

Romance, And A Road Trip, Led A Couple To Buy The World’s Oldest Drive-In...

Pennsylvania’s first drive-in was also the second one in the country as a whole. And now it’s on its fourth set of owners, who...

The Legacy Of East Germany’s Prefab Housing Blocks

“The biggest question in the room, more relevant than ever in Germany and cities across Europe, is how to create affordable, quality housing.” - The...

West Point Abruptly Cancels Award For Tom Hanks, Who Had Supported Joe Biden

“One former instructor told The Washington Post that the decision appears to have been rooted in avoiding an ‘uncomfortable’ relationship between West Point leadership and the...

Powell’s Books Faces Huge Online Backlash After Using Generative AI For New Merch

Truly, says another indie bookstore in town, what were they thinking?! And on the venerable store's Instagram sort-of apology, the comments are, hm, not...

The Man Bringing Us All So, So Much Jane Austen

That is, screen adaptations of Jane Austen. And Dickens. And the sinister BBC House of Cards. - The New York Times

Amid Worries Over Budget Cuts, Welsh Arts Orgs Get An Eight Million Pound Injection

“The Arts Council of Wales has called for statutory funding for the sector from the Welsh government, saying funding cuts could mean the sector does not...

As Terry Riley, The Father Of Minimalism In Music, Turns 90, What’s He Doing...

Riley’s “In C launched a maximal musical journey and one of the most remarkable in American music. If he was the father of Minimalism...

We Need To Talk About Ms. Rachel And Media Literacy

Ms. Rachel is best known “for her enthusiastic and approachable ditties on key subjects, like potty training.” But recently, she’s been using her big...

Jim Jarmusch Unexpectedly Wins Golden Lion At Venice

His movie “had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life...

A Fire Engulfs Part Of The BBC’s Former Television Headquarters

“Smoke was still billowing from the rooftop rotunda late on Saturday morning as crews used a drone to help tackle the blaze and crowds...

The New Announcements New Yorkers Will Hear In The Subway Are Truly Performance Art

Each of the brief snippets “will end with the words ‘If you hear something, free something,’ which is also the title of this ambitious...

Why Were These Two British Artists Memory-Holed?

“The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the...
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