Mark Williams On Being The First Black Man To Lead A Major North American...
"I’m not saying we shouldn’t address it; we are where we are, and we have to talk about it. But it’s difficult being the...
John von Rhein Remembers Ned Rorem
Rorem came across as an artist of disarming candor, fierce intelligence, urbane wit and, above all, enormous personal charm. We hit it off immediately and,...
Forecast: Theatre Fortunes Will Be Rough This Coming Year
By 2022, according to the same survey, 30 percent of responding theaters were projecting deficit operating budgets, and there’s a huge increase in that...
Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Completes Expansion, Will Reopen With A New Name
A $20 million commitment from New York State, announced Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, completes the Buffalo museum’s $230 million capital campaign, believed to...
Orchestras Are Beginning To Tour Again
With the mass introduction of vaccines, the decline in infections, and the lifting of travel restrictions, orchestras have already taken to the road, with...
New Women Directors At Three Big Ballet Companies
As three celebrated, longtime directors depart these companies, the entrance of women is proving that female directors are staking a firm claim in a...
The Number Of College Students In America Is About To Fall In A Precipitous...
In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a...
In Praise Of Monotony
As one gets older and realizes that most of life’s good stuff is contained between two ledger entries, one sees that if it weren’t...
Why Do People Keep Willingly Humiliating Themselves In Interviews With The New Yorker’s Isaac...
Many have seen how the foolish and unwary "intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding. ... This raises a question that many...
The Theatre World Never Really Understood The Subversive Side Of Lorraine Hansberry
The subversive intent of Hansberry’s art and activism has long been underestimated. Early reviews of Raisin, which debuted in 1959 and made Hansberry the first Black...
In And Around Charleston, History Tourism Is Moving Away From “The Hoop-Skirt Experience”
The soon-to-open International African American Museum will be the flagship of efforts, beginning in the 1990s, to stop trying to ignore the history of...
Controversy: Did Bob Dylan Actually Sign The Copies Of His Book Fans Paid For?
Justin Steffman, a professional authenticator who runs a Facebook group for collectors, said the autograph was most likely created by an autopen. The machine, which recreates...
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub Dead At 89
"Straub ... and his wife, Danièle Huillet, worked together as filmmakers for more than 30 years. Straub-Huillet, as they were often called by French...
The Remarkable Sphinx Organization Turns 25
Perhaps Sphinx’s most fundamental and meaningful achievement has been its simplest one, the part that crying mother caught onto: creating a community of people...
Singing And Playing Wind Instruments May Spread COVID Less Than Speaking Does
A Princeton University study involving singers and orchestral players from the Met found that "musical professionals have such fine control over their breath that...
Orchestra Impresario Bruce Coppock, 71
"It is no exaggeration to say that no single person had a greater role in the SPCO's artistic trajectory over the last 20 years...
With An Immersive Theater Piece, Irina Brook Emerges From The Huge Shadows Cast By...
After a lifetime "blindly" following the path of her parents — director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry — Irina realized she was in...
Leader Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Says We’ll Be Shocked When We See The Cleaned...
Yes, "a shock" is the term used by the army general overseeing the project for visitors' anticipated reaction to the interior stonework once centuries'...
Best International Feature Oscar Gets A Big Change In Its Nomination Process
In previous years, participating Academy members would rate the films they saw on a point scale ranging from 7 to 10. Now they'll rank...
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” And “Tár” Lead 2023 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Everything Everywhere All at Once received eight nods: best feature, director, screenplay, and editing, as well as four acting nominations. Tár garnered seven nominations:...
Lucerne Festival Artistic Director Announces His Departure Date
Michael Haefliger will have run the summer event for 26 years when he allows his contract to expire at the end of 2025. Over...
Marcelo Gomes Will Be Directing Dresden’s Ballet Company
With Semperoper Ballett artistic director Aaron S. Watkins leaving this summer to take over English National Ballet, Gomes — who's been coach and ballet...
Italy May Have To Raise Museum Ticket Prices Because Of The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"Following a climate protest in which activists threw flour on a Warhol-painted BMW in Milan, Italy's cultural minister warned that museum admission prices could...
New Entertaining Bios Of Mary Rodgers And Stephen Sondheim Demonstrate The Power Of Voice
Two new brazenly entertaining works of theatrical biography are a reminder that “voice” is as essential to the stage as it is to a...
Why Streaming Can’t Be The Movies’ Only Revenue Stream
The problem with this—on top of the hope that each of these studios could replicate Netflix’s first-mover advantage—is that streaming never ever made sense...
