Shivkumar Sharma, Pathbreaker In Indian Classical Music, Dead At 84
His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo...
Now There Are Calls For Artistic Director Patricia Barker To Follow Her Husband Out...
A week after Michael Auer was reportedly terminated as ballet master over abusive conduct toward company members, two dancers who performed with RNZB in...
What This Year’s Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway
So we’re back to normal, right? Not exactly. Broadway remains an economic conundrum and a contested cultural question. - Los Angeles Times
Golden-Age Stradivarius Named For Leonardo Could Sell For $20 Million
The "da Vinci" Stradivarius violin, made in 1714, is also called the "ex-Seidel" after former owner Toscha Seidel, who gave Albert Einstein lessons and...
Sex & Death & Rodgers & Hammerstein
Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music — they can seem corny today. Yet they deal with loaded issues...
How You Know When You’ve Entered A “Real” Bookstore
While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign...
$195 Million: Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” Is Now The Most Expensive American Painting Ever Sold
Indeed, the work — full title Shot Sage Blue Marilyn and dating from 1964 — is also the highest-priced 20th-century artwork and the second-most...
This Year’s Pulitzer Winner For Drama Hasn’t Even Had A Live Staged Performance Yet
Fat Ham, which transmutes Hamlet from a tragedy in Denmark into a comedy at a Southern Black family's cookout, was produced for streaming last...
Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass” Wins 2022 Pulitzer Prize For Music
"Chacon, 44, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, set out to use the sounds of the organ, accompanied by winds,...
Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes For Books
Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. History: Covered With Night by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer. Biography: Chasing Me...
A New And Thriving Genre Of AI-Generated Poetry
Dozens of websites, with names like Poetry Ninja or Bored Human, can now generate poems with a click of a key. One tool is...
Auction Of Justice Ginsburg Memorabilia Raises Big Bucks For Opera
All told, an online auction of 150 of items owned by the late justice raised $803,650 for Washington National Opera, one of the late...
Canada Gets Its First National Jazz Orchestra
The aim is for the orchestra to tour not only across Canada, but internationally, to show the world what Canadian jazz musicians, composers and...
How The Ukraine War Has Re-Energized How Britain Thinks Of Itself
Truss’s central idea is that the West has grown complacent since the end of the Cold War, because of a spiritual crisis in which...
Digesting The Tonys: The Surprises And The Overlooked
The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 shows eligible for nominations, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically...
Susan Jaffe Will Be American Ballet Theater’s New Artistic Director, The First In 30...
She spent 22 years dancing with ABT (1980-2002), 19 of them as principal, and became one of ballet's top stars. She went on to...
The Song That’s Uniting India And Pakistan
The song is stealthily subversive: a traditional raga—the classical Indian framework for musical improvisation—has been laid over an infectious beat that sounds South Asian,...
How To Explain The Allure Of Conspiracy Theories? (The New Books)
The conspiracy theorist’s dogmatism often distracts from the objects of his skepticism, and it is the latter that I believe are more revealing. The...
Why (And How) TikTok Is Dangerous
TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen...
How Russia’s War On Ukraine Is Changing The World’s Ballet Stages
24th of February, this is, was the line, Because it's all changed. All changed. The reputation of Russia and Russian people, even if you...
A Strange Loop Leads The 2022 Tony Awards Nominees
For best play, The Lehman Trilogy has the most nominations, and Company is in the mix for best musical revival. The ceremony was delayed...
What’s The Deal With Comedy Posters And Their Huge Red Lettering?
There's no research; it's just the bus stop thing. "A producer I used to work with would constantly tell me: 'If I’m driving down...
George Perez, Who Helped Define The Wonder Woman We Know Today, Has Died At...
Pérez had a comic book career that spanned four decades. His "meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes," including New...
A Constellation Of Unlikely Events Leads To A Real Breakout Off-Broadway Season
Marjan Neshat, a 45-year-old Iranian American actor, is having a real one, with three critically acclaimed performances in one season. Says playwright Sanaz Toossi,...
How Debbie Allen And Shonda Rhimes Combined Forces To Build A Performing Arts Center
It's big for L.A.: "Five dance studios, a 200-seat performance area and classrooms for the Debbie Allen Middle School of the Performing Arts. The...
