Prolific Young Producer Takes Over Off-Broadway Theater Left By Second Stage
Greg Nobile's Seaview Productions, which was behind such notable shows as Slave Play, Romeo + Juliet, Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom...
Looters Use Electric Saw To Cut Historic Cave Paintings
"Archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez investigated (the site at La Cueva Pinta in Mexico's Coahuila state) and found one painting had been stolen...
Author Neil Gaiman Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults
The week's issue of New York magazine features a cover story by Lila Shapiro detailing allegations of repeated assaults by the author on women,...
Arnold Schoenberg’s Publisher And Its Archives Completely Wiped Out In L.A. Wildfires
The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the headquarters of Belmont Music Publishers, the sole publisher of Schoenberg's works. Lost were the complete inventory of sales...
San Francisco Girls Chorus Fires Executive Director For “Lewd Conduct”
Last week, 13 staff members received an email containing screenshots of WhatsApp messages, including images "pornographic in nature," between an unnamed individual and Executive...
Climate-Protesting Grave Vandals Deface Charles Darwin’s Resting Place
Two activists from the group Just Stop Oil used orange chalk to scrawl "1.5 is dead" (referring, in degrees Celsius, to the rise in...
“Post-Woke”? Is The Art World Set To Move Away From “Radlib” Identity Politics?
Ben Davis: "The main issue that will dominate, I believe, is cultural institutions trying, and probably failing, to process the confused splintering of the...
Can Dogs Really Talk To Humans By Pressing Buttons?
Heaven knows there's a ton of social media videos purporting to show that the answer is yes. What do animal-cognition scientists think? - The...
Versailles Was, Believe It Or Not, A Center of Scientific Advancement
"In 1666, Louis XIV established the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, which, unlike peer institutions in Italy or Britain, paid members a salary...
Why Do So Many Critically Acclaimed Shows Come From London Only To Be Panned...
Jesse Green, who admits to being one of those New York critics doing the panning, has some ideas. - The New York Times
The Most Intimate Theatre Experience You Could Have Might Be A Deal With The...
That deal is not metaphorical in Yannick Trapman-O'Brien's Undersigned, a show which he describes as a "psychological thriller for one." - Los Angeles Times...
TikTok “Is Harming Children At An Industrial Scale” — And Knows It
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch: "Our evidence comes mostly from research done by 14 (state) Attorneys General. … The briefs include hundreds of quotations...
Can Chicago Keep Its Grant Program For Individual Artists Going?
The question seems crucial as the dawn of the second Trump Administration approaches. - WBEZ (Chicago)
Another Way That Dancing Can Help Treat Parkinson’s Disease
Several past studies and subsequent clinical experience have shown that dancing can help with the physical symptoms of the incurable neurological disorder. A new...
France Has Thousands Of Historic Churches It Can’t Afford To Repair
Since the Revolution, churches in France have been the property of the central government, and most of them which aren't Notre-Dame de Paris can't...
Pacific Tsunami Museum In Hawai’i Struggles Against Closure
The museum, in Hilo (scene of three deadly tsunamis in the past 80 years), has laid off its staff and cut opening hours, but...
A War In Massachusetts Over The Soul Of Public Radio
In Cape Cod, the founders of Transom audio training, the Public Radio Exchange (or PRX), and the Moth Radio Hour suddenly discovered that Boston’s...
The San Francisco Girls Chorus Places Its ED On Leave Following Allegations Of ‘Lewd’...
“Members of the chorus staff received an email containing screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation containing images that were 'pornographic in nature,’ according to Chorus...
The Composer And Violinist On A Mission To Keep Musicians Mentally Well
Kyleen King wants to protect the “sacred catharsis” that audiences feel when they listen to music - and one way to do that, she...
The 1890s French Author Who Predicted The Rise Of The Audiobook
In the short story “The End of Books,” one character says, "I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids...
What Does ‘Escapism’ In Reading Even Mean?
“I am not entirely sure if said snobbishness is about books or readers, and that, right there, is the ugly little thought that made...
Let’s Take A Look At The New Sadler’s Wells East
Rowan Moore: “The last thing choreographers and dancers want, I’m told by people who know, are spaces that swoop and curve in imitation of...
William Butler Yeats’ Ornate Stained Glass Lantern Comes Home From The United States To...
Yeats used the lantern to light his way on a winding staircase in his castle’s tower. A century later, a multimedia artist “carried the...
Abigail McGrath, Founder Of Off Center Theater, Has Died At 84
“‘Just as children need sunshine and parks and schools and libraries,’ Ms. McGrath said, ‘so they need the theater.’” - The New York Times
The New Hot Thing In Yoga Is A String Quintet
And why not? "Composer Ellen Fishman t”The musicians play traditional quartet instruments - two violins, a viola and a cello - but Fishman...
