Novelist Joanna Trollope Is Dead At 82
“When popular fiction written by, and mainly for, women tended to be classified either as ‘romantic novels’ or ‘historical sagas’, Joanna” — a great-great-great-grandniece...
Director Convicted Of Defrauding Netflix For Series Which Was Never Finished
Carl Rinsch was convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and making illegal transactions in a case where he took $11 million in funding from...
D.L. Coburn, Playwright Of “The Gin Game,” Has Died At 87
He was in his late 30s when he wrote the play, his first. It premiered in Los Angeles in 1976; it reached Broadway the...
The Louvre’s Security Cameras Caught The Entire Jewel Heist — But The Security Guards...
“(The museum’s) security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time....
Arkansas Becomes First State To Sever Its Public Television’s Ties With PBS
“The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced … that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective...
Broadway Had Its Second-Highest Attendance In History Last Season
More than 14.7 million seats were filled in 2024-25, according to the latest audience-demographics report from The Broadway League. Among other findings is that,...
Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight
The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script...
Can Literary Fiction Help Save Classical Music?
Since 2020, well over a dozen novels have taken classical music as their setting. Of course, novels about classical music are nothing new. But...
Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After...
Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry...
“Nutcracker” From Behind The Stage
Pittsburgh’s production has evolved its own traditions and superstitions. During some performances, performers pass a Heinz ketchup packet while onstage, like a hot potato....
Americans’ Obsession With Renovation And Makeovers — And The White House
The White House has explained the East Wing’s demolition as “renovation,” and the necessary prelude to a multimillion-dollar ballroom. This is the architectural equivalent...
Have Stripped Public Media Of Funding, Now Republicans Want To Cancel NPR, PBS Station...
The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American Rights said the CPB shutdown should...
Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now
Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits...
Mark Swed: LA’s Best Classical Music Of 2025
Classical music’s survival instincts proved reliable. New leaders of L.A.’s arts institutions are bringing vitality to the region, empowering musicians and giving fans hope...
Baritone Jubilant Sykes, Stabbed and Killed
After the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call about an assault at a house around 9:20 p.m., officers found Sykes, 71, with...
How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years?
The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades....
The People Who Are Using AI To Do Their Thinking
For this set of compulsive users, AI has become a primary interface through which they interact with the world. The emails they write, the...
How Warner Bros. Sale To Netflix Could Change Movies
In Hollywood, concern about whether Warner Bros. will remain a theatre-centered business is haunted by historical echoes of earlier seismic shifts in the movie...
The Trumped Up Kennedy Honors
Every detail of the ceremony appeared to have been plucked from Trump’s mood board, an indelible blend of revanchist impulses and eighties camp. - The...
Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In...
“The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars...
Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years
“According to data released ... on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the...
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite
And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new...
Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Music Director, Takes On A Second Position
Next September, the French contralto-turned-conductor will begin a four-year term as music and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. She...
“The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration
The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston...
The Muny In St. Louis To Get $9.5 Million Renovation Next Fall
The beloved outdoor theater will replace all 11,000-odd seats and make structural improvements to protect against flooding, which caused serious damage after a torrential...
