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Sex & Death & Rodgers & Hammerstein
Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music — they can seem corny today. Yet they deal with loaded issues...
$195 Million: Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” Is Now The Most Expensive American Painting Ever Sold
Indeed, the work — full title Shot Sage Blue Marilyn and dating from 1964 — is also the highest-priced 20th-century artwork and the second-most...
This Year’s Pulitzer Winner For Drama Hasn’t Even Had A Live Staged Performance Yet
Fat Ham, which transmutes Hamlet from a tragedy in Denmark into a comedy at a Southern Black family's cookout, was produced for streaming last...
Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass” Wins 2022 Pulitzer Prize For Music
"Chacon, 44, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, set out to use the sounds of the organ, accompanied by winds,...
Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes For Books
Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. History: Covered With Night by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer. Biography: Chasing Me...
Susan Jaffe Will Be American Ballet Theater’s New Artistic Director, The First In 30...
She spent 22 years dancing with ABT (1980-2002), 19 of them as principal, and became one of ballet's top stars. She went on to...
Abdulamir Al-Hamdani, Who Fought To Save Iraq’s Antiquities, Dead At 55
As a working archaeologist, a regional official, and the national Minister for Culture, Hamdani — born and raised very near the ancient Sumerian city...
The Race To Save “The Pinnacle Of Ukrainian Art”
Joshua Hammer traveled to Lviv to look into the history of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, a 36'-by-42' wall of delicately painted icons in a lavishly...
Adapting A Hit TV Series For A Different Country Can Be A Tricky Matter
Take, for instance, the hit French series Call My Agent: "(The French) argue stylishly, they fall in love stylishly. It's all said, they tell...
Nijinsky’s Sister Was Even More Revolutionary Than He Was
And she was revolutionary in more than one way. Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she...
Actors’ Equity Launches Fight To Unionize All National Tours Of Broadway Shows
The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the...
Thousands Of Unseen Andrew Wyeth Works Have Become Available For Public Viewing
"The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in...
“I Have Been Canceled”: Frank Langella Writes An Angry Rebuttal To Allegations Of Sexual...
In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in...
American Orchestras, Still Largely White, Are Trying To Diversify. It’s Slow Going, But Here’s...
There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the...
The Publishing Industry Starts Campaigns Against The Book-Banning Trend
Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild...
After 900 Years, St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Letting Girls Into The Choir
Well, strictly speaking, they're being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys' and girls' choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: "I accept...
Jacques Perrin, Star Of French And Italian Cinema Who Became Award-Winning Producer, Dead At...
Known early on for his "bright vanilla hair" and youthful mien in films by Jacques Demy, Vittorio De Seta, Claude Chabrol, and others, he...
Former Paris Opera Ballet Star Who Fled Moscow Lands As Artistic Director In Munich
Laurent Hilaire, who was an étoile in Paris since Nureyev's days, became director of dance at the Stanislavsky Theatre in 2017; he left Russia...
Charlotte Ballet’s New Artistic Director On How Newcomers Can Appreciate Dance
Alejandro Cerrudo: "One of the most common thoughts I've heard from audiences is, 'Sometimes I feel like I don't understand it.' You don't have...
How Abortion Has Been Handled In US Movies And TV
"Culture is not linear cause and effect, ... (but) film and television portrayals of abortion ... do offer an imperfect mirror to a culture...
Could They Do Immersive Orchestra Concerts The Way They Do With Van Gogh? The...
"Dubbed Immersive Scheherazade, the experience emulates those immersive Van Gogh shows. Four large screens and several smaller ones showed video close-ups of (Curtis Orchestra)...
Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Could Change, And Maybe Galvanize, Cultural Scenes Across Eastern Europe
The dangers that war brings and the huge influx of refugees will surely alter the region's arts along with the rest of society. Yet...
Now High Schoolers All Over The US Are Forming Banned-Book Clubs
Not only are these teens gathering to obtain, and read together, the books that conservative school boards and politicians are trying to keep out...
Largest Set Of Ancient Cave Art In North America Discovered In Alabama
There are thousands of life-sized engravings of anthropomorphic figures on the low ceilings of the three-mile-long cave complex, whose ceilings are as low as...
For The First Time, TikTok Will Share Ad Revenue With Top Video Creators
"The company said that with the launch of (advertising program) TikTok Pulse, it will 'begin exploring' its first advertising-revenue share program with creators, public...
