Masquerade is a $25 million reconfiguring of the long-running Broadway hit, spread out over six floors in midtown Manhattan. This version is told mostly from the viewpoint of the phantom himself, with more backstory, a few scenes and an hour or so of “newish” music. - The New York Times
Humans do not think or speak in sentences; we think and speak in thoughts, which interrupt and introduce and complicate one another in a neat little dance that creates larger, more complex ideas. - The New York Times Magazine
It’s easy to roll your eyes at late-night comedians getting applause for mocking the president. Many people, myself included, found some of those jokes pandering. But that now seems a little glib. - The New York Times
This exercise in what she calls immersive attention has remained a core element of Jennifer Roberts’s art history teaching for more than a decade, despite the ever-increasing amount of distractive pressures that smartphones, social media and now A.I. heap on students’ minds. - The New York Times
“A post on the singer’s Instagram on Friday said the U.S. leg of the tour ‘is in serious jeopardy due to significant delay in U.S. immigration processing. Despite our team’s exhaustive efforts, the required performance visas for Yusuf and his band have not yet been issued.’” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The lawsuit was filed in March by several arts organizations, including Rhode Island Latino Arts, which promotes art made by Latinos, and National Queer Theater, a New York company. It challenged new agency regulations, initially introduced in February, stating that federal funds “shall not be used to promote gender ideology.” - The New York Times
Kimmel’s strident stance last night made clear that he had prevailed in his weeklong power struggle with Disney; he was addressing the controversy on what seemed to be his own terms. - The Atlantic
“Joshua Bergasse spoke … about his role reproducing choreography, how an iconic Broadway musical translates to an opera stage, and the efforts to achieve laser synchronicity between Bernstein’s notes and Robbins’s moves.” - LA Dance Chronicle
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece We Are the Revolution (an effigy of himself nailed up by the collar) in market stalls, bodegas and other spots in New York, London, and Amsterdam. - ARTnews
The superstar Chinese-American pianist, who herself studied at Curtis, won’t be a professor of piano giving weekly lessons. Her title, as of September next year, will be Artistic Collaborator; her duties, while not yet defined, will likely include master classes and chamber music, a favorite activity of hers. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, plus three years’ probation, for an attempt to foreclose on Elvis Presley’s mansion to satisfy a loan which never actually existed. - NBC News
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel The Leopard, Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West, and the Hollywood films Blindfold, Don’t Make Waves, and The Professionals. - AP
A large majority of shareholders voted to reject a bid by notorious newspaper destroyer Alden Global Capital in favor of a somewhat lower (but still favorable) bid by the Hearst Corporation, whose Texas holdings already include the major dailies in Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. - Nieman Lab
