Who Will Win The Tonys – And Who Should Win?
It’s the biggest night of the year for Broadway. How will plays like Oh, Mary do? - The New York Times
Luigi Alva, One Of The 20th Century’s Great Light Tenors, Is Dead At 98
His easy stage presence, comic timing and small but perfectly formed voice (combining lightly-sprung agility with a distinctive sweetness of tone), were ideal for...
CNN Will Live-Broadcast Clooney’s Broadway Murrow Play
CNN is planning a live broadcast of the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed...
This Year’s Cannes Film Festival May Be The Most Politically Charged Since 1968
With open letters and festival speeches referencing Gaza, the Trump administration, the Ukraine war, and #MeToo in France’s film industry, an event which used...
Neuroscientists Find Music Can Powerfully Reshape Memory
In other words, positive music increased the likelihood of recalling stories with added positive elements, and negative music increased the likelihood of negative elaborations....
Opera Australia Posts Dismal $10M Deficit
Australia’s largest performing arts company confirmed its Sydney winter season and its much-hyped run of Sunset Boulevard failed to meet box office forecasts but it had...
Harvard Law School Bought A Copy Of The Magna Carta For $27. Turns Out...
British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across the item while looking through Harvard Law School’s online...
Willem Dafoe On His Upcoming First Season Leading The Venice Theater Biennale
Unsurprisingly, considering his decades with New York experimental-theater legends the Wooster Group (which will perform at the Biennale), Dafoe is focusing on the avant-garde,...
The Case For Salonen To Return To The LA Philharmonic
In L.A. he has a venue like no other in Disney Hall. The L.A. Phil is an orchestra more flexible than any other, and...
Texas Proposes Law To Punich Bookstores For Selling “Unsafe” Books
Specifically, the bill, HB 1375, authored by state Rep. Nate Schatzline, R-Fort Worth, would hold bookstores legally liable for the "distribution, transmission, or display...
Is It Ethical To Buy Used Books?
Used-book stores or vintage-record shops, where hidden gems lurk like geodes waiting to be split open, play a role, too. Such venues don’t just...
Salman Rushdie’s Attempted Murderer Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
“A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. … Matar received the maximum 25-year sentence for the (stabbing)...
Why We All Need To Study History
When students, and school boards, ask, Why history? What are we supposed to be getting out of this? the best answer is still that...
The Oscars Want To Make Voters See Movies They Vote On. But How Do...
That might seem like an obvious rule for voters of any award: View the works you’re judging. But when I recently spoke with several...
Republican Tax Bill Would Allow President To Kill Non-Profits
Among those amendments, buried on page 380 of the draft, is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to denounce any...
Dance World Surveys Damage Already Done By Withdrawal Of NEA Grants
“It was 5:45 pm on Friday, May 2, when Megan Kiskaddon, executive director of Seattle’s On the Boards, learned that the grant for that night’s...
Gauguin’s Final Self-Portrait May Not Be A Selfie After All
“The Kunstmuseum Basel …, which has housed Self-Portrait with Glasses (1903) since 1945, is re-examining the work following claims that it may have been painted not...
Auschwitz Memorial Creates Digital Replica Of Death Camp For Filmmakers’ Use
“Organisers of the Picture from Auschwitz project said they have harnessed ‘cutting-edge 3D scanning technologies’ to build a digital model of the concentration camp … ‘down...
Remaining Kennedy Center Employees Start Unionization Process
“The union, which they’re calling the ‘Kennedy Center United Arts Workers,’ would be in partnership with … the UAW. It would consist of nonsupervisory...
$34.5 Billion Mega-Merger Will Create US Cable TV Behemoth
Charter Communications is the country’s second-largest cable company after Comcast; Cox is also among the largest. … Charter’s footprint includes New York City and...
Charles Strouse, Composer of Broadway Hits “Annie” And “Bye Bye Birdie”, Is Dead At...
“In a career that spanned more than 50 years, (the three-time Tony winner) wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film...
Actor Joe Don Baker, Known For “Walking Tall,” Has Died At 89
A tall, broad-shouldered Texan, he portrayed heroes and villains during his career as a leading man in the 1970s and ‘80s, most notably in...
The Eurovision Song Contest’s Real Heroes: The Crew That Does Complete Set Changes In...
While viewers watch the introductory videos known as postcards, dozens of people swarm the stage. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off...
Broadway’s Back Baby! Box Office Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Take For The First Time
Last week, Broadway grosses for the season-to-date surpassed 2018-2019’s record season-to-date box office for the first time. - The Hollywood Reporter
Mubi, Born As A Streaming Platform, Wants To Conquer Indie Cinema
Efe Cakarel founded Mubi in 2007 to stream independent art films (“the auteurs’ platform”). Now it's a studio with an Oscar winner (The Substance)...
