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Director Ivo van Hove Fired By Theater Where He Made His Career
The International Theater Amsterdam, where he was artistic director from 2001 (when it was called Toneelgroep Amsterdam) to 2023 and continued as a salaried...
American Booksellers Association Publishes Handbook For Fighting Book Bans
The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters … features more than a dozen interviews and profiles, and includes...
The Company That Invented The Portable Pop-Up Theater And Locked Writers In A Room...
"It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. … To mark its half-century, the...
Walking Around The Bronx With Ian Frazier
Dan Kois writes that their excursion showed him just why Frazier may be, in Kois's words, "the Greatest Nonfiction Writer in America." - Slate...
How To Sing Infanticide: Karita Mattila On Portraying Janáček’s Villainesses
"The bottom line ... is to remember that she, (and) everybody else in Janáček’s operas, are actually human beings. There aren’t any heroes, there...
A Breakdown Of All The Upheaval At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Here's what was and wasn't in the video that DBDT bosses claim is the reason they fired all the company's dancers, how the sackings...
What Edgar Bronfman’s Offer For Paramount Would Give Shareholders That The Skydance Bid Doesn’t
The beverage-heir-turned-entertainment-mogul's purchase offer ($4.3 billion, since raised to $6 billion) is lower than Skydance's $8 billion deal, but Bronfman says his plan to...
Edgar Bronfman Raises His Bid For Paramount Global To $6 Billion
"The latest twist in the chaotic auction came late Wednesday as Paramount's independent board members were mulling whether to keep the door open for...
Turmoil At Spoleto Festival USA: Exodus Of Board Members And Major Staff Turnover
"Since (CEO Mena Mark) Hanna took over, nearly all of the nonprofit’s established artistic and business leaders have been replaced. And in recent months...
Soaring Ticket Prices At Bolshoi Theater Leave Muscovites Furious
The opera and ballet mecca has seen two big price increases this year alone; admission now costs well over double what it did in...
New Jersey Symphony To Move To New Concert Hall And HQ In Jersey City
The orchestra will have a venue with a 550-seat auditorium, spaces for education and community programs, and 8,000 square feet of office space —...
Studio Trailer For Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Is Withdrawn Because It Used Fake Quotes...
Lionsgate's trailer featured clips from The Godfather and Apocalypse Now along with unflattering quotes about those movies from famous critics — the idea being...
Judge Rejects Richmond Ballet’s Motion To Dismiss $11.5 Million Lawsuit By Two Former Dancers
"The lawsuits, which seek a total of $23 million in damages, claim the institution’s environment led the former dancers to develop eating disorders and...
The Real Spawn of The “Alien” Franchise Is Successful Directors
"The 1979 creature feature … begot not only the unlikeliest and most malleable of franchises but also an astonishing array of cinematic careers —...
Geffen Playhouse Expands Its Audience To Include Prisoners And Their Families
"The first thing we do is make sure that they can see plays that reflect their lives," says artistic director (and Oscar winner for...
What Have We Done To Beethoven’s Ninth, And What Has It Done To Us?
The symphony — and not only the "Ode to Joy" — has been used for everything from Nazi propaganda to the fall of the...
Disney Avoids Getting Publicly Sued By Adding Arbitration Clauses To Absolutely Everything
After a visitor died of anaphylactic shock from being fed allergens (the servers had been warned) at a Disney World restaurant, Disney attorneys tried...
Battle Of The Theme-Park Titans
Disney and Universal are engaging in one-upmanship as their theme parks bring in more revenue than their sputtering entertainment divisions. (This is despite the...
The Black Women That Big Publishers Hired As Senior Executives In 2020 Are Now...
"In response (to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations), major publishers recruited and promoted Black editors and launched new imprints devoted to books by nonwhite...
Warner Bros. Discovery Promises Massive Investment In Nevada If Nevada Gives It Massive Tax...
"Warner Bros. Studios COO Simon Robinson on Tuesday promised that the company would commit to a minimum of $500 million in annual content spending...
Condé Nast Joins The Flock Of Publishers Signing Contracts With OpenAI
"(The agreement is) to license content from brands including The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and Vogue for use within...
Attendance At The Louvre Sank During The Paris Olympics
During the Games themselves (July 27-August 11), visitor numbers fell by 22% from the previous year. In the 11 days leading up to the...
Do We Now Know Where The Long-Lost Leonardo “Salvator Mundi” Has Been Stashed?
During a BBC profile of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, a friend of the ruler said that the painting, purchased in 2017 for...
More Theatres In Britain Are Doing Shows Without Intermissions
Skipping the interval (as they call it over there) is somewhat controversial: some producers and directors think that offering a shorter evening may bring...
A George Orwell Archive Is Being Sold Off Bit By Bit
"The extensive archive of correspondence and contracts amassed by Orwell’s original publisher, Victor Gollancz, … is being offered for sale on the open market,...