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An Evening In The Life Of A “Drunk Shakespeare” Star
“Marissa Chaffee starts her shift by housing a Five Guys burger with pickles, mustard and ketchup. … Later tonight, she’ll chug (a "Witches' Brew")...
Ambient Music? An Online Archive Of Soundscapes From The Environment
“The Sonic Heritage project is a collection of 270 sounds from 68 countries, including from famous UNESCO-designated sites such as Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal,...
All San Francisco Is Arguing About The 45-Foot Nude Woman, And That’s Wonderful
Supporters agree that “R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane represents “feminine strength and liberation.” Critics complain that it’s just more of the male gaze and...
New York Public Radio’s “New Sounds” Saved From Cancellation For Second Time In Six...
The 43-year-old show, which has had a profound hold on New York’s new-music scene, was first slated for cancellation, evidently for non-budgetary reasons, in...
George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Sets New Record As Highest-Ever-Grossing Broadway Play
“The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play...
“Phantom” Is Coming Back To New York, Says Andrew Lloyd Webber, But Not To...
“In a new Instagram video – watch it below – Lloyd Webber, pretending to speak for the Phantom character, says that the musical is...
Cleveland Has More Money For Arts Funding Than It Anticipated
“Despite a drop in cigarette sales in Cuyahoga County in the first quarter of this year, tax revenue is up, creating more funding for...
Chicago Loses A Key Dance Venue, Links Hall
“Since its founding in 1978 …, Links has been a cornerstone of the city’s dance scene, often giving a home to experimental new works...
Nasher Sculpture Center In Dallas Appoints New Director
“(Carlos) Basualdo, 60, comes to Dallas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he rose through the ranks over 20 years to deputy director...
Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78
Known for his work at The Village Voice and The Atlantic as well as for an influential annual critics poll, he, “more than many...
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Former Star Who Transformed Charlotte Ballet, Dead At 82
“A scintillating principal dancer for the Paris Opera and New York City ballet companies, (he) took an unexpected leap by taking on yet another...
How Marshmallow Peeps Are Born
A visit to the headquarters of Just Born Quality Confections in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where some two billion Peeps are made each year (along with...
Watching Auditions For A WNBA Dance Squad
“More than 100 dancers auditioned for just 21 spots on the New York Liberty’s cheerleading team, the Timeless Torches. Founded in 2005, less than...
You Know Who Else Really Hates Trump’s Tariffs? Hollywood
The rough economic times caused by the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 COVID shutdown were hard on the industry, but back then, at least,...
Why Multi-Hour Classical Works Are Way Too Much Of A Good Thing
“It’s not that these are great pieces that happen to be long; the length itself is the point. The language – ‘endurance’, ‘epic’, ‘marathon’...
Should We Really Be Able To Read Joan Didion’s Diary Entries About Her Psychiatrist...
“Didion left no instructions about the (diary), so nobody knows how she would feel about its publication as a book, titled Notes to John....
Book Subscription Services Are Starting To Publish Titles Themselves
“It makes sense, then, that subscription services want to push their curation skills further, by commissioning, editing, and publishing titles that aren’t already in...
Cellist Joel Krosnick Dead At 84
“He was the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet from 1974-2016, and a renowned teacher at New York’s Juilliard School. … His passion for contemporary...
More Staff Layoffs At Nashville Symphony
The orchestra is facing “financial challenges driven by inflation, shifting consumer behavior, an increasingly competitive landscape and broader economic uncertainty.” - Nashville Business Journal
David Geffen And The Billionaire Who Bought And Ate The Banana On The Wall...
“In January 2024, the work” — titled Le Nez — was sold to Geffen, seemingly on (Patrick) Sun’s behalf. Sun now says the sale...
Broadway Is Selling A Lot Of Tickets To Young Adults
The 18-to-25 demographic isn’t usually considered a target audience for a circuit where tickets are so expensive, but the last couple of seasons have...
Have A Look Around The Grand Egyptian Museum, Now Open At Long Last
“There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed. ... Its construction has been such...
All About The Ocarina
This odd wind instrument, whose name is Italian for “little goose,” was invented more-or-less by chance in 1853 in a little town near Bologna....
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross” Isn’t A Critique Of Cutthroat Capitalism
“What if … Glengarry is instead celebrating the deceit, in fact presenting it as the epitome of manliness? What if Glengarry Glen Ross, quite possibly in ways...
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Smelled As Good As They Looked
“An archaeologist and curator … in Copenhagen finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like rose, olive oil and beeswax. These...
