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Does Every Broadway Show These Days Have To Grapple With The World’s Pressing Issues? ...
"Critic Hayley Levitt ... now finds herself in a state of bafflement when a comedy is just for laughs. Critic Zachary Stewart loves a...
One Of The World’s Largest Pipe Organs, Once A TV Star, Has Been Taken...
"Hazel" (formally, the Hazel Wright Organ) was the instrument of the Crystal Cathedral, from which Rev. Robert H. Schuller once hosted the Sunday morning...
If You Find Dickens’s Novels Too Melodramatic, Try Reading Them The Way He Read...
"His health was failing, but he gave every reading his histrionic last ounce. ... As Ruskin explained it, Dickens 'chooses to speak in a...
2,000-Year-Old Sculptures Smashed By ISIS Restored And Returned To Ancient City Of Hatra
The ruins of the Parthian city, located 70 miles southwest of Mosul, were occupied by ISIS from 2015 to 2017; as usual, they destroyed...
For The First Time, A Ballet Company Brings In An Intimacy Coordinator
Consultants who "choreograph" sex scenes and ensure actors feel safe performing them are becoming common in film, TV, and theatre, but this production at...
This May Be The World’s Largest Puppet
"Percy the Porcupine, the two-story creation, is covered in 2,000 foam quills and has an articulated nose the size of a 2-ton Volkswagen. And...
The Times Of Trouble Are Not Over At New York Public Radio
After several years of well-documented turmoil, WNYC had a new president and needed a new top editor. The newsroom badly wanted someone, preferably of...
Saving Atlanta’s Independent Arts Journalism Website When The Board Wanted To Shut It Down
Executive Editor Scott Freeman: "In the summer of 2020, we were in another bad spot and it became obvious that our board planned to...
Putin’s Government Shuts Down Russia’s Last Independent TV And Radio Stations
"Russia has blocked TV Rain (also known as 'Dozhd,' Russian for 'rain'), its last independent news network, along with Echo of Moscow, one of...
Clement Crisp, Doyen Of Dance Critics, Dead At 95
"For more than 60 years, his prose distinguished the arts pages of the Financial Times, always with eloquence, panache, expertise and astounding wit." His...
For John Cameron Mitchell, There’s Acting And “All The Other Stuff”
"'Acting is what pays the bills,' he says." (In fact, it just paid for a house in New Orleans.) "'All the other stuff is...
After A Stroke, Choreographer Ronald K. Brown Is Making Dances Again
The event happened late last April, though Brown is only now speaking about it publicly. He's had to relearn to walk and to choreograph...
What Can, And Can’t, We Really Expect Gergiev And Netrebko To Say About Putin’s...
"At what point does cultural exchange — always a blur between being a humanizing balm and a tool of propaganda — become unbearable? What...
Met Opera Cancels Anna Netrebko’s Engagements
"'It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,' Peter Gelb, the company's general manager, said in a statement. 'Anna is...
“Rain Bomb” In Australia Floods Brisbane’s Arts District
An extremely slow-moving low-pressure system dumped about 60 inches of rain on the Queensland capital in three days. Most of the city's major cultural...
Podcasts And Radio Are More Persuasive When Listened To Through Headphones: Study
"Researchers from (three University of California campuses) have found that when people listen to auditory messages – like podcasts, audiobooks, and radio news –...
“To Make Space For A Real Teaching Of History, We Have To Get Rid...
"History textbooks are basically designed to alienate students. Instead of enlightening them, textbooks prevent students from understanding history and why it's important. ... If...
Last Year, Protesters Demanded Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater Address Racial Inequities There. And What...
Well, you can't say they did nothing whatsoever … - Broad Street Review (Philadelphia)
Amazon To Close All Of Its Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores
The online retail behemoth has announced "it plans to close all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, pop-ups and shops carrying toys and home goods...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...