What’s Holding Broadway Back From A Full Audience Recovery? The Burbs.
"Grosses are down about 13% from the record 2018-19 season but only 7% from the (previous) year. The remaining gap is largely caused by...
Florida Art Dealer Who Sold Bogus Basquiats And Warhols Gets More Than Two Years...
"After pleading guilty in February to money laundering for selling cheap reproductions of works purportedly by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein at...
Disgraced Donors The Sackler Family To Pay $6 Billion And Lose Purdue Pharma In...
"The Sackler family will pay out $6 billion to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic and give up control of their company Purdue Pharma in...
Jonathon Heyward Named Music Director Of What Was The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
"This summer, Louis Langrée wraps up his 21-year run as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival and its orchestra. Next year, the 30-year-old...
A Desperate Maggio Musicale, Florence’s Opera House, Looks To Sell Off Its Archives To...
"The Maggio Musicale in Florence may sell its large archive in a desperate attempt to find €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt...
Growing Concern About The DEI Industry
News outlets such as The New York Times and New York magazine are publishing more articles that cover the industry with skepticism. And DEI practitioners themselves are raising concerns...
How The Movie “Alien” Spawned A Horror Universe
Though initially conceived as a cash-in on the popularity of science fiction in the aftermath of Star Wars, Alien grew from a hugely successful...
Its Top Leadership Leaving, The LA Philharmonic Ponders Its Future
Some orchestra members said they were unnerved, too, but others — including those who have lived through such changes before — said they welcomed...
Their High School Canceled Their Play. So Students Raised Money And Produced It Anyway
LGBTQ storylines drew complaints from parents, spurring Carroll High School to cancel “Marian” in February out of concern for students’ safety. But the cast decided...
We Love Stories (And That’s The Problem)
The great breakthrough in human enlightenment was to develop techniques – empirical science – to allow us to grasp the real complexity of the...
At Brooklyn’s Very Own Superfund Site, Herzog & de Meuron Turn A Derelict Building...
"Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of … the remains of a 115-year-old power plant" along the...
Who “Owns” The Classical Past (And Why It Matters)
Contemporary debates about who ‘owns’ the classical past obscure the intellectual role it played in the emergence of modern democracy, and the reasons we...
The Lead Producer Of “Shucked” Talks About What May Be Broadway’s Most Unlikely Hit
"After years of development, Shucked ... became what it is today, an irreverent comedy that both delights in its Dogpatch characters and knows full...
A New Dictionary Of African-American Language
It is not simply about the words that appear in letters, books, poems and lyrics. It is also about the words that morphed into...
Turkey’s Arts World Is Feeling Anxious Following Erdoğan’s Re-Election
"Turkey's creative community fears Erdoğan could now intensify a long-running crackdown that has intimidated artists, musicians, filmmakers and other cultural activists. Kurdish, female and...
Why Stravinsky’s Music Has Fallen Out Of Favor
Stravinsky, right now, is in freefall. In 2021, few summoned much enthusiasm for an anniversary retrospective that was quickly quelled by Covid. - The...
Dancer Brian Henry, Aka HallowDreamz, Is “The Face Of Krump In New York”
"It's not just that he's commandingly large and muscular, with a Moses-like beard. ... Standing in profile with his chest angled forward, he could...
The Explosive E-Sports Boom Losing Traction With Audiences
Unable to turn a profit, team owners are cutting costs by laying off employees and ending contracts with star players. In some cases, they...
Italy’s New Right-Wing Government Is Disrupting The Country’s State Broadcaster
"Eight months after Italy took a sharp turn to the right, the government headed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ... is wreaking havoc at...
Here’s The Story Of That Other Classical Music Organization In San Antonio
Over the past few years, as the San Antonio Symphony slowly fell apart and the new San Antonio Philharmonic was born, firefighter-turned-administrator Paul Montalvo...
A City’s Nearly 40 Public Sculptures Get Their Yearly Baths
"Zach Tatti, an art conservator, (has) made his annual trek to Philadelphia to clean and restore sculptures throughout the city. It's been a tradition...
The Resurrected MoviePass Has Now Launched Across The U.S.
"(The $10-monthly) Basic level gets you one to three movies a month. ... A $40 Pro account will get 30 movies a month —...
Broadway’s “Here Lies Love” Plans To Use Recorded Instrumentals. The Musicians’ Union Says That’s...
The producers say the immersive musical, about Imelda Marcos, is based in karaoke (near-mandatory for Philippine politicians) and that recorded instrumental tracks are integral...
Ex-Staffer Leads Lawsuit Against Met Opera Over Last Year’s Computer System Hack
"The Metropolitan Opera failed to properly safeguard the credit card numbers and other personal information of more than 45,000 patrons and employees compromised in...
Bookstores, Publishers, And Libraries Join Together To Sue Arkansas Over Law That Could Criminalize...
"Seventeen plaintiffs — including the ALA's Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of American Publishers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Authors Guild —...
