Broadway Theater To Be Renamed After James Earl Jones
"The Shubert Organization, which is Broadway's biggest landlord, … said Wednesday that it would name the Cort Theater, a landmark 110-year-old house located on...
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Near Kyiv Mostly Undamaged By Russian Missile
The rocket fired on March 1 was aimed at the Ukrainian capital's main TV/radio tower, adjacent to the site of the largest single massacre...
London: The Theatre’s Great. The Going To Theatre Not So Much
I’d been able to stop thinking about the ventilation, wondering what I was breathing and whether it was worth it. I decided it wasn’t...
6,500 Russian Architects Sign Letter Protesting Invasion Of Ukraine
More than 6,500 Russian architects, designers and urban planners have signed an open letter to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and "demand the immediate end of...
ASCAP Reports Record Revenue For 2021
Increases in collections from the audio streaming and audio-visual sectors pushed ASCAP’s domestic revenue to $1.011 billion in 2021, up 4.4%, an increase of...
Michael Tilson Thomas Announces He Has Cancer, Will Step Back From New World Symphony
Saying he was “taking stock of my life,” Thomas, 77, the former music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said he was reducing his...
13,000 Russian Artists Demand Putin Quit Ukraine
An open letter demanding the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has attracted the signatures of over 13,000 Russian art workers on Google Docs—even though...
Can The City Of Philadelphia Just Hand Over Its History Collection To Drexel University?...
"The city, legally obligated to care for the collection under an agreement with donor Atwater Kent, doesn't want the hassle or expense of maintaining...
How Social Media Distorts Culture
Social media enables people to make, shape, and share anything they want and call it their own, even when it’s not—further helps to distort...
A Major New Arts Center Opens On Sydney Harbour
Seven new theatre and rehearsal spaces have been added to existing facilities at Walsh Bay (just past the bridge from the Opera House), and...
AMC Movie Theatres Experiment With Variable Ticket Pricing
“This is all quite novel in the United States, but actually AMC has been doing it for years in our European theaters. Indeed, in...
An Autistic Dancer Explains Why Ballet Is A Good Discipline For Her
"I was diagnosed with autism at age 25, but I've been autistic my whole life. In many ways ballet class has been a safe...
NFT Investors Furious Over The Quality Of The Art They Bought
What was promised to be a beautifully-designed, Pokémon-inspired NFT project called Pixelmon turned out to be a huge mess of irredeemably ugly pixel art...
Love It Or Loathe It, It’s Architectural History In Concrete: London’s Barbican At 40
"Part bastion, part Brutalist Hanging Gardens of Babylon," it's is a city-within-a-city in the heart of old London, with apartments, schools, pubs, an artificial...
Guillermo del Toro To Oscars: This Isn’t The Year To Change Things
Del Toro commented: ”If any year was the year to think about it, this is not the year not to hear their names live...
Duvall Hecht, Pioneer Of Commercial Audiobooks, Dead At 91
As an Angeleno with an hour-long commute, he was desperate to escape the "bad music and worse news" on radio and started listening to...
Forgotten Design By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Has Now Been Built
The 1952 design was initially commissioned by a fraternity at Indiana University, but money ran out before construction could begin in earnest. The plans...
Another Major Chicago Theater Is Losing Its Longtime Director
"Barbara Gaines will exit her position as artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company she founded some 36 years ago, … likely at...
Another NPR Host Departs
Sam Sanders, who joined the network in 2009 and has hosted the radio show/podcast It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders since 2017, said...
Owner Of Barnes & Noble And Waterstones Buys Britain’s Largest Independent Bookstore Chain
Blackwell's, a 143-year-old family business with 18 bookshops which went up for sale last month, has been purchased by hedge fund Elliott Advisors, which...
Russian Airstrike Destroys Kharkiv’s Opera House And Concert Hall
A large Russian missile was fired at Freedom Square in the center of Ukraine's second-largest city, causing severe damage to the Kharkiv State Academic...
Anna Netrebko Withdraws From All Performances “Until Further Notice”
The Russian soprano, a former protégée of Gergiev and supporter of Putin who has come under pressure to denounce the invasion of Ukraine, said...
Pay Attention! (It’s Not Because Of Smart Phones. Historically We’ve Had Problems Doing That)
“You can read medieval monks nearly a millennium ago complaining that they were suffering from attention problems of their own. As human beings get...
Financial Institutions Are Isolating Russia. Will The Art Market Follow?
As the financial community shuts its doors to Russia, scores of Russian millionaires and billionaires may need to convert their trophy Warhols, Rothkos, and...
