Top Welsh Cultural Honors Stripped From Disgraced BBC Presenter
The Eisteddfod, Wales’ week-long “language cultural festival includes competitions in music, dance and literature. … No member of the Gorsedd has been expelled before...
After Four Straight Years Of Deficits, One Of England’s Best Regional Theatres Reconsiders Its...
The Bristol Old Vic says its ticket sales are up one third over last year, but ever-rising costs and the loss of grants from...
A Play Calling JK Rowling A TERF Was Hotly Debated At The Edinburgh Fringe...
That is, until it opened. “The muted response to the show itself suggests that fewer British people are riled by the debate than the...
Oklahoma Governor’s Push To Get Bibles In Every Classroom Goes Right Back To 19th-Century...
Starting in the 1830s, the American Bible Society began a campaign to get inexpensive Bibles into homes "in every part of the land," while...
A Retiring Violinist Compares Classical Music To A Colonoscopy
Christopher Wu has some ideas to make symphony-going seem less of a chore to newbies. “Culture is always shifting. Everyone is into TikTok now....
Gradually, Restaurants Are Becoming Literally Inhuman: Pete Wells In His Farewell Column
"Blackbird’s new checkless exit gives me the creeps. It's just the latest in a series of changes that have gradually and steadily stripped the...
Sam Neill’s Hardworking Second Act
After Neill’s blood cancer went into remission - and his book about his experiences was published - the Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople,...
South Africa Forges Its Own Style Of Opera
"With South African stars shining on the international stage, opera has boomed since racial barriers were scrapped in 1994, drawing in talent from the...
Nina Ananiashvili On Her Twenty Years Remaking The State Ballet Of Georgia
She was one of the Bolshoi's biggest stars and in demand as a guest all over the world. Yet the president of Georgia himself...
Author And Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Wins $500K Kluge Humanities Prize
"Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is author of more than a dozen books and is known for scholarly...
Disney Makes Profit On Streaming For First Time As Entertainment Revenue Soars
The entertainment division's bonanza was from improvements in direct-to-consumer streaming and the box-office hit Inside Out 2. … The streaming business specifically (which includes...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Who Attacked A Klimt Give Up And Disband
"'We no longer see any prospect of success,' the group (Last Generation Austria) said in a statement. The group regularly made headlines over the...
Seattle Opera’s New General Director: Opera Theatre Of St. Louis’s James Robinson
"Robinson, who has been artistic director at the opera company in Missouri since 2008, will join Seattle Opera on Sept. 4. … He succeeds...
Lincoln Center Appoints New President After Henry Timms’s Surprise Departure
Mariko Silver, currently head of the Henry Luce Foundation, formerly president of Bennington College, and for several years an Obama administration official, will take...
How One Pandemic-Created Organization Is Trying To Give Black Percussionists A Boost In The...
For instance, the Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists “provides students with equipment like mallets and cymbals, allowing proteges to master more quickly the dizzying...
How Far Will Readers Go To Hear Music Inspired By Their Favorite Books?
Even if you don’t include the music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays, pretty darn far, like countries’ worth of travel. - The New York Times
CNET Sells Again
Ziff Davis will be “the third corporate parent for the pioneering tech news and reviews site in four years” - with its value dropping...
Cal Shakes Exceeds Its Fundraising Goal
But what’s next? - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The Courtauld Gets A Gift To Focus On British Art
A British art center, “initially due to be located at the gallery’s current campus in Vernon Square in central London, will later be moved...
Tampa Bay Times Offers Buyouts To Entire Staff
The CEO “said the company must reduce payroll by 20% or layoffs will commence later this month, adding that employees have until Aug. 16...
Business Is Down At Disney’s Theme Parks (Is This A Warning Sign?)
Even though revenues have grown by 2% since last year, operating profit declined by 3% — this just a year after Disney committed $60...
Will The World Catch Up To The Music Of Berlioz?
“In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as ‘past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.’ His extraordinary but unusual...
Venice’s Mayor, Under Investigation For Corruption, Refuses To Resign
"Luigi Brugnaro, who has maintained his innocence since the wide-ranging scandal involving public tenders and land sales broke in July, addressed the city council...
The Grand Collaboration Where The Music Of Saul Williams Meets The Dance Of Bill...
In this long-time coming collaboration, seven choreographers worked in pandemic-created “isolation to create choreography to tracks from Williams’s albums MartyrLoserKing and Encrypted & Vulnerable, … exploring themes of...
Alan Ayckbourn Has Had 90 Of His Plays Produced, And He’s Written Even More
He says he stockpiled plays during the COVID lockdowns; he's had readings of two in the past two years, has another getting a full...
