“Phantom Of The Opera” Isn’t Leaving Broadway After All (Well, Not Yet)
In September, after months of shrinking attendance, producers announced that the longest-running show in Broadway history would finally close this coming February. Ticket sales...
Remembering Theatre Critic Michael Feingold
Feingold’s greatness rested in the agility of his focus. He had the ability to take an aerial view of the work under consideration. But...
“WALL-E” Director Andrew Stanton On Pioneering The Movie’s Style Of Visual Storytelling
"I always say that it was like trying to invent a new color. The hardest part is trying to get everybody to see this...
Carey Perloff Digs Into Stoppard
The more I’ve dug into Stoppard’s biography, the clearer it has become that, in spite of appearing to be a quintessential Englishman, he’s always...
Is The Founding Novel Of Lesbian Literature Really A Lesbian Novel? Is It Even...
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness was a powerful, even life-changing story for several generations of gay women. But there's a serious argument to...
You Knew It Would Happen: Popular AI Image Generator Starts Censoring
One user on Stable Diffusion’s sub-reddit said the removal of NSFW content was “censorship,” and “against the spirit philosophy of Open Source community.” Said the user:...
Welsh National Opera’s Boss Tries To Understand The Funding Cuts, But They Make No...
Aidan Lang: "There's been no explanation given other than a pleading that it's not an opera thing, it's about levelling up or spreading culture...
The Architect Who Made Modernism Colombian
"If (Rogelio Salmona is) relatively unknown outside Colombia, that's perhaps because his work is difficult to categorize, distant from both the pure rationality of...
Is There A Full-Blown Crisis At CNN?
"The original cable news network ... has been shedding viewers. ... The cost-cutting new corporate management under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Discovery has...
Expensive New Floodgates Save Venice Again (But For How Long Will They Be Effective?)
When unusually high tides hit last week, the $6 billion MOSE system of barriers in the lagoon was raised and a repeat of the...
Russia’s Ambassador To UNESCO Finally Gets Out Of The Way
The Russian Federation and its envoy had been chairing UNESCO's World Heritage Committee this year, throwing a wrench in the organization's attempts to save...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Come After Classical Music
Last week at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Julia Fischer and the Staatskapelle Dresden were about to start Beethoven's Violin Concerto when two activists from...
“Bronze Blond Bombshell” Joyce Bryant, Jazz-Pop Star Turned Missionary Turned Opera Singer, Dead At...
Dubbed "the Black Marilyn Monroe," she was a huge sensation in the 1950s — until overwork and Seventh-Day Adventist guilt (over her sexy persona)...
Newly-Promoted Star Paris Opera Ballet Dancer Quits Company As TV Career Flourishes
One of the best-known male dancers at the Paris Opera, who has won a big following outside ballet for working as a judge on...
Bob Dylan Apologizes For Autopen-Signed Books
Dylan says was given “the assurance that this kind of thing is done ‘all the time’ in the art and literary worlds.” Now that...
The Vatican’s $2 Billion Bathtub
One of the most valuable items in Rome is a bathtub that has been estimated to be worth $2 billion. And you thought your...
Bob Iger Returns To A Troubled Disney Animation Business
The poor performance of “Strange World” highlights one of the issues facing Mr. Iger. He returns to a theatrical environment far harsher to animated...
Inside The Quietest Room In The World (Will It Drive You Crazy?)
The mystique of the too-quiet room, if construed by outsiders, has perhaps been bolstered by the company’s website, which advertises an experience called “The...
Remembering The Human Toll And Creativity Lost To AIDS
Since AIDS was identified in the early 1980s, the World Health Organization estimates that over 40 million people have died of HIV or AIDS-related...
We’re Witnessing The Death Of Bands Touring
“The main problem is that fees for artists have not gone up despite the growing costs of inflation, gas prices, increased flight prices, hotels,...
Why Small Indie Bookstores Are Surviving
Now, when so many of our needs are unified and algorithm-prompted by online retail, independent bookstores offer person-to-person customization. Something, it turns out, that...
Having Trouble Hearing TV Dialogue? It’s Probably Not You
As more video-production studios embrace advanced audio formats for at-home content, not every device can keep up. Plenty of viewers can’t keep up, either. -...
Why Does The Mythology Of The “Lost City of Atlantis” Still Fascinate?
The confrontation is intriguing and raises many issues of which the most basic is the simple question: why has the story of Atlantis –...
Amazon Wants To Join The Big Movie Studios In The Theatres
The company says it plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies to be released in theatres - that's 12-15 theatrical releases a...
A British Filmmaking Company Had To Help Its Ukrainian Office Evacuate During The War
January was bad, very bad, timing for British company Breakthru Films to open an painting animation studio in Kyiv. - The Observer (UK)
