Star Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Jailed In Japan On Drug Charges
The 36-year-old author of the multiple-Tony-nominated Slave Play and current creative director of the Williamstown Theater Festival was arrested at the airport in Okinawa...
US Federal Grants To Museums And Libraries Restored Following Court Case
“The Institute of Museum and Library Services is reinstating all grants that were previously terminated by the Trump administration. A short statement posted on the...
London’s Barbican Centre To Get An Overhaul That Might Just Make It Easier To...
It will be a mammoth task, and a necessary one. The 43-year-old Brutalist landmark in central London has never been renovated, and its physical...
Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels Its Holiday Concerts
While next weekend’s classical programs are still scheduled, the orchestra’s Holiday Pops shows for the weekend before Christmas and its New Year’s Eve Gala...
Royal Shakespeare Company To Eliminate Its Music Department
As part of its company-wide layoffs, the RSC will terminate its entire live music staff and switch to using recorded music. - The Stage...
Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. Discovery For $82.7 Billion
“The deal has a total enterprise value (including debt) of approximately $82.7 billion, with an equity value of $72 billion, the companies said. The...
Pantone’s 2026 Color Of The Year Is … White?
Well, Pantone is calling it “Cloud Dancer” and describing it with a lot of verbiage that strains credibility, but yes, it is white. As...
Now Bollywood Has A Rival For The Spotlight In India’s Enormous Movie Industry
Bollywood, based in Bombay/Mumbai and producing movies in Hindi, has always been the center of India’s cinematic universe. Yet there are centers of filmmaking...
Countries Boycotting Eurovision Over Decision To Allow Israel To Compete
Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete. - BBC
Ailey Company Launches Its First Season Under Director Alicia Graf Mack
Mack, who did two stints as a principal dancer with the company (and got a master’s degree in-between), says her vision is to balance...
Russia Blocks Facetime, Roblox
Both restrictions are part of an accelerating clampdown on foreign tech platforms: In the case of FaceTime, Russian authorities allege it is being used...
Is Appointment TV Making A Comeback?
As more shows switch to a weekly release schedule, it gives viewers a chance to watch the episodes as they become available and take...
Paramount Claims Bias In Warner Deal
“It has become increasingly clear, through media reporting and otherwise, that WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction...
“The Picasso Of India” Finally Has A Dedicated Museum — In Qatar
“More than a decade after his death, the Indian Modernist M.F. Husain is getting the monumental tribute he long imagined. Qatar” — where he...
The Importance Of Style In Science
Style, as I see it, is much more idiosyncratic and manifests in scientists who may practice in the same field and utilize similar methods,...
Why We Shouldn’t Bring Back Gatekeepers
Put simply: Once established institutions lost the privilege to control the public conversation, they acquired an obligation to participate within it, which, so far,...
How The Amazing Sculptures In The Paris Catacombs Got There
An avid carver, Décure turned the Catacombs into his private workshop. Outside of working hours—during lunch breaks and before and after his shifts—he snuck...
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Says He’ll Go Home To Iran Despite Latest Prison Sentence
On Monday, while in New York to accept three Gotham Awards for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, Panahi was sentenced to...
What It Says About You When Your Accent Changes
Researchers studied Taylor Swift’s voice as a way of exploring a phenomenon called “second-dialect acquisition,” or the way people learn a new style of speaking....
Lufthansa Crew Refuses To Let Violinist Bring Instrument Case On Carrying 243-Year-Old Violin
A soloist was forced to carry her 1782 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin in her arms through the Helsinki airport security and onto a flight...
Lebrecht: 2025 Was A Year Of Meddling With Music
I cannot remember a time when there was so much political meddling in music and so little resistance. - The Critic
New York Times’s New Chief Theater Critic: Helen Shaw Of The New Yorker
“The (Times) has been publishing reviews by a number of writers since predecessor Jesse Green was reassigned earlier this year. That list notably did not include...
Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi To Retire After 44 Years
The conductor joined the company back in 1982 and helped build it into an impressive operation for a city of Sarasota’s size and a...
Bringing The Musical-Theater Version Of “La Cage Aux Folles” Home To Paris
The property was born in the French capital, first as a play, then as a hit film (followed later by the big US remake)....
Whistleblower Alleges That CEO Of Chicago’s Black History Museum Misused Funds, Abused Staff
The now-former vice president of education and programs at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is suing the institution and its CEO, Perri...
