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This Woman Dancing In A Park Is The Actual Poster Girl For NYC’s Reopening...
The City Hall commissioned poster, captioned "NO STOPPING NEW YORK," shows Kanami Kusajima dancing in Washington Square Park. But she uses a small speaker,...
Ancient Chinese Heritage Sites In Henan Imperiled By This Summer’s Floods
The province has five UNESCO World Heritage sites and 420 sites with national heritage status. Record rain in July led to floods that killed...
The Motion Picture Academy’s Museum Is Opening Way Past Schedule — Thank Goodness
"After spending more time in development hell than any other project in Hollywood, the museum was plagued by more production and budgetary setbacks than...
Houston Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Departing After Three Decades
After more than 30 years as Resident or Associate Choreographer with the Houston Ballet," said Christopher Bruce in a statement, "both the company and...
Richard Wagner’s Great-Granddaughter, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, In Coma Following Near-Drowning
The 76-year-old former administrator, who worked at (among others) Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and the Met and was co-director at Bayreuth 2008-2015, was...
Chinese Communist Party Warns Celebrities About Moral Behavior
At a meeting in Beijing titled "Love the party, love the country, advocate morality and art," officials told entertainment and media figures that they...
Pianist Maria João Pires Injured In Fall
The 77-year-old was to perform on Sunday at the Riga Jurmala Festival, but she tripped and fell in the street, injuring her shoulder. After...
The 111-Page Poem From The (Previous) Roaring Twenties That Feels Like A Warning For...
Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party "doesn't seem very far from our collective desire, in 2021, to lose ourselves in a throng of sympathetic...
After Decades, Francis Ford Coppola Is Set To Shoot His Passion Project — With...
Megalopolis is "an ensemble piece involving an architect rebuilding New York City after a financial crisis cripples the metropolitan hub. … And he seems...
Plus-Size Ballerina Fights The Good Fight For Body Positivity
Colleen Werner is continuing to dance as she works toward a degree in mental health counseling, and she's collected thousands of Instagram followers and...
Conductor Michel Corboz Dead At 87
Over 50 years as the director of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (which he founded) and the Gulbenkian Choir in Lisbon, he built up...
COVID May Finally Be Ending The Plague Of Audience Coughing
Fear of COVID, to be more precise. "Even before you realise what you have done, anxious sideways looks will have been exchanged, the seeds...
This 39-Year-Old Biracial Female Composer Is The Future Of America’s Classical Canon
So argues Joshua Barone about Jessie Montgomery, whose works are set to get a total of 400 performances this calendar year and who's just...
We Can’t Address The Problems With Classic Musicals Just By Casting A Few Nonwhite...
"It would be absurd to call for them to be abandoned entirely. But if they're going to be embedded in the fabric of musical...
As Performances Start Up Again, Critics Are Being Too Generous
"Is there perhaps a clandestine pact to encourage audiences back out with some concerted cheerleading? If so, then the critics are doing us a...
‘A Symphony In Glass’: Nick Cave’s Latest Public Artwork Takes Shape In The New...
Every One, a glass mosaic that's the first of three to be installed in the pedestrian tunnel for the 42nd Street Shuttle, depicts vividly...
Michael K. Williams, Known For Playing Omar In ‘The Wire’, Dead At 54
"(He) was celebrated for delivering nuanced performances as swaggering street toughs, charming family men and smooth-talking gangsters," most famously as Omar Little, the stickup...
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, Star Of French New Wave, Dead At 88
"Belmondo, who embodied … a new type of male star characterized by pure virility rather than classic good looks," had his breakout role in...
At Last, China’s Notorious “Ghost Cities” Are Getting Some Actual Inhabitants
Early in the 2000s. the People's Republic created a string of new mega-developments — building much faster than people were moving in. Images of...
It’s the Met’s First Opening Night Since The Pandemic And First Opera By A...
Justin Davidson profiles Will Livermore, a 33-year-old baritone who'd been specializing in comic parts such as Papageno and Figaro. Now he's taking on the...
Saleem Kidwai, Scholar Who Revealed India’s Queer Past To The World, Dead At 70
"By translating literature about same-sex love from 15 Indian languages composed over more than 2,000 years," the anthology he co-edited "challenged the modern homophobic...
As It Gears Back Up, Here’s What American Theater May Have Learned During Its...
"The pride-in-resilience, show-must-go-on attitude has started, at last, to be paired with other questions: Whose show? Why must it go on? Last year's reckoning...
A New Resource We Didn’t Realize We Needed: The Black Film Archive
Maya Cade, by day the audience development strategist at The Criterion Collection, built up a full register, with synopses and links, of about 250...
Ballet Companies Try To Make This Year’s Nutcrackers COVID-Safe
"Some are imposing restrictions on performers and audience members under 12, who remain ineligible for vaccines. Others are trying to minimize contact between young...
A Gay History Exhibit Went Up At Missouri’s State Capitol. Then It Came Right...
"Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights" opened last weekend and was supposed to be there through Christmas. It lasted four...