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Lisa Nandy May Not Be An Artist, But She May Be The Culture Minister...
"Those pining for a cultured culture minister should be careful what they wish for – especially when looking romantically to counterparts in Europe who...
Harold Meltzer, Composer And Contemporary Classical Evangelist, Has Died At 58
"(He) set aside a career as a lawyer to create a highly regarded body of energetic, colorful chamber, vocal and orchestral scores that mixed...
Melbourne Symphony Musicians Vote No Confidence In Management
While the precipitating event was the canceling/uncanceling of performances by pianist Jayson Gillham after he dedicated a piece to journalists killed in Gaza, a...
Demonstrators Picket Dallas Black Dance Theatre After It Fired All Its Dancers
"The rally, led by the national labor union American Guild of Musical Artists, was in protest of auditions taking place at the dance company...
Why Have Standup Comedians At The Edinburgh Fringe Been Performing Outdoors? They’ve Had To
"These natural basement-dwellers have been flushed out of their venues by various fire alarms and outages, including a city-wide power cut that caused the...
Police Had Evidence To Charge Now-Deceased CEO Of Peoria’s PBS Station With Embezzlement And...
"There was enough evidence to charge former WTVP president and CEO Lesley Matuszak with embezzlement of funds and forgery, had she not taken her...
So Who Did The Embezzling At Sacramento’s Public Radio Station? Here’s The Suspect.
An unredacted copy of the audit conducted by Sacramento State University (which owns the station's license) reveals that Jun Reina, general manager of the...
Shen Yun’s Young Dancers Live And Work In Abusive Conditions: Investigation
"In pursuit of ever larger audiences, Shen Yun has treated many of its performers as an expendable commodity. … It has routinely discouraged them...
The Curious Incident Of The Brain Fog That Left Author Mark Haddon Unable To...
"It has been a peculiar and exasperating five years. ... Thanks to a triple heart bypass, some underperforming psychiatric medication and long COVID, however,...
Americans Love Free Speech, Survey Finds — Until They Think About What’s Being Said
"Large majorities of Americans passionately uphold free speech as a cornerstone of democracy. But fewer of them are supportive of free speech when faced...
What Do You Get When You Cross “Waiting For Godot” With An Escape Room?...
"Escape From Godot … is a play where audience members become participants, the game requiring patrons to hop on the dials and interact with...
Yet More Turmoil At Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency As Three Senior Staffers Resign
"One by one, Metro Arts' Communications Manager Daryn Jackson, Public Art Manager Jessica Ingram, and Finance and Operations Director Christiana Afotey announced their resignations....
Raygun, The Professor B-Girl, Earned Her Spot On Australia’s Olympics Team Fair And Square
After her zero-points performance in Paris went viral and spawned a thousand memes, a bunch of skeptics on social media — who ultimately submitted...
How San Francisco Symphony Plans To Makeover Davies Hall (If It Ever Has The...
"Despite its budget deficits and a well-publicized falling out with acclaimed conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the San Francisco Symphony is moving forward with plans for...
Manfred Honeck On What Makes A Great Bruckner Conductor
"Technically, from the baton, how you beat, Bruckner is very easy. It’s not like Stravinsky’s Sacre or Mahler. … You have to understand that...
Talk About Bucking A Trend: The Onion Has Gone Back Into Actual Ink-On-Paper Print
Or, "The Onion: ‘Americans Demand New Form of Media to Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop to Phone’ - The New York Times
Jewels Stolen From Dresden’s Green Vault Are Now Back On Display
"In 2019, thieves infiltrated the Fort Knox–like vault at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and stole more than 4,300 diamonds that once belonged to the...
Another Round Of Layoffs At America’s Largest Public Radio Outlet
"Staff cuts at New York Public Radio, which operates news/talk WNYC-AM/FM, classical WQXR, WNYC Studios, New Jersey Public Radio, and the Gothamist online news...
Peter Marshall, Host Of The Original “Hollywood Squares,” Is Dead At 98
He had a career both before and after as a musical-theater star, but from 1966 to 1981, he was emcee/straight man on one of...
A Taiwanese Play That Openly Addresses The Question of Independent Statehood
"Written by Swiss and Taiwanese creators and produced in Switzerland, This Is Not An Embassy deals with Taiwan’s lack of global recognition as a...
Remembering Doc Brown, “The Prince Of Cakewalking”
"William Henry Joseph Cutter Brown, better known as Doc Brown, was born into slavery in Arrow Rock, Missouri. After emancipation, he moved to Kansas...
“Chile Is A Nation Of Muralists”
"Bridges across dry riverbeds in the Atacama desert are daubed with slogans demanding the equitable distribution of Chile’s water, and graffiti on rural bus...
A Guy Who Writes Fiction Suggests How To Get Guys To Read Fiction
Jason Diamond: "I’ve often heard this discussed as some existential problem that might be impossible to tackle, as if people have thrown up their...
Thousands Of Protestors March Against Slovakia’s Culture Minister And Her Firing Spree
"The crowds (marching in Bratislava) claimed that the dismissals (of the directors of the National Gallery and National Theatre) are a political purge by...
A Veteran Dolly Grip In Hollywood Fears That His Profession May Become Extinct
Diego Mariscal has worked on more than 80 feature films and TV shows. Yet with the advent of AI and the likelihood of virtual...