Want To See How Exactly Broadway Bares? Like This.
In 1992, in a Manhattan gay club, eight hunky dancers did stripteases on the bar to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Thus...
The Netrebko Problem
With a larger-than-life personality and a taste for extravagance, she built a loyal fan base and was sometimes called classical music’s answer to Beyoncé. Now...
How James Turrell Was Inspired By Quaker Meetinghouses
"The artist recalls asking his grandmother what they were meant to do inside the meetinghouse, to which she replied: 'We're going inside to greet...
City Of Philadelphia Increases Arts Funding To (Slightly) Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
"The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the main vehicle for supporting arts organizations in the city..., saw its budget increase to $3.5 million for fiscal 2023,...
Maybe Alt-Weeklies Aren’t Dying Out After All
"(As) with the robust launch of online local newsrooms in the last two years, some alts are finding new ground in old traditions. Here...
In This Depressed Scottish Housing Project, El Sistema Is Working
"No-one is pretending there has been a miracle here, but 15 years ago, if the Raploch was known at all, it was known for...
“Metamorphosis”: How Musicians Are Trying To Build A Successor To The San Antonio Symphony
The group of musicians that organized public concerts this spring (before the board shut the orchestra down) is now working on the logistics of...
Netflix Lays Off Almost 3% Of Its Workforce
The streaming giant has let go of 300 employees, just a month after a previous round of 150 layoffs (plus many part-timers and contractors)....
Opera’s Diversity Problem Isn’t Only Onstage
The new study by Opera America found that, in North America, only about 20% of employees are people of color, compared with 39% of...
London West End Theatre Ticket Prices Rise 20 Percent Over Pre-Pandemic
In 2022, the average cost of the most expensive tickets available for West End productions is £140.85, up 21.3% on 2019. The increase has...
Eight Men Convicted In Paris Of Stealing Banksy’s Bataclan ArtWork
British street artist Banksy painted his “sad girl” work on the door of the Bataclan in memory of the 90 people killed in worst...
How To Convince Pseudo-Science Believers Of Real Science
We shouldn’t be dismissive of people who believe in pseudoscience. In many cases they’re victims who have fallen for disinformation that’s been put forward...
How Method Acting Influenced Opera
Method acting has a history in opera, and it begins earlier than you might think. Even before his Moscow Art Theatre toured the United...
Canadian Parliament Advances Bill That Would Force Streamers To Promote Canadian Content
It would also apply to platforms including YouTube and Spotify and make them promote Canadian music artists by law. Critics of the bill say...
So Alexa Can Now Read In The Voice Of Your Loved One. What Could...
So your Alexa may soon be able to mimic your departed nan, long-lost friend or, presumably, someone off the TV. The goal is to...
Getting The Band Back Together: After COVID, Not So Easy For Students
Now that P.S. 11 band students have returned to the classroom, they are rediscovering their confidence as musicians. But it has been no small...
Salsa In Syria: Social Dancing Classes Offer Damascans A Brief Escape From The Stresses...
"For (the) students, ballroom dancing is a form of release, finding rhythm in music away from their country's many social and economic pressures. For...
Cleaning Up Messy Ideas Results In Stale Monocultures
It seems to me that the one indisputable thing we can say about our current illiberalisms, of the left and the right: All illiberalisms are...
The Costa Book Awards Really Did Make A Difference (A Eulogy)
"The USP of the Whitbreads, which morphed into the Costas 14 years before they were abruptly scrapped this month, was that they didn't buy...
Streaming On Edge: Companies Crack Down On Password Sharing
It's "an industry falling out of sync with how people use its products. It’s no longer just a cheaper, ad-free alternative to cable, but...
For The First Time, An LGBTQ Studies Scholar Wins The $500,000 Kluge Humanities Prize
The honoree is historian George Chauncey, best known for the multi-award-winning Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male...
Smithsonian Picks Four Potential Sites For New Women’s History and Latino Museums
The historical Arts and Industries Building, on Jefferson Drive SW next to the Smithsonian administration building known as the Castle, is the sole site...
The L.A. Times Sets Up Its Own “Meme Team” (And You Won’t See Its...
It's called The 404, and "video — especially on TikTok — (will) be the first priority. Other areas of concentration will be images (think:...
What COVID School Closures Really Cost Students
Conventional accounts of the effect of school closures focus on the shift from in-person to online teaching and the academic losses that resulted. This familiar...
What’s Behind The Closing Notices For Long-Running Broadway Musicals?
Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and Tina did solid business before the pandemic. Yet with tourism to New York City still down, they've...
