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Following In García Lorca’s Footsteps, Bringing Cinema To Remote Spanish Villages
In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project...
Bo Spassoff, Director Of The Rock School: The Exit Interview
"As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he's gleaned...
Broadway League Turns To Oprah To Convince Theatergoers To Come Back
Winfrey is narrator for the audio and video components of a multi-million-dollar campaign across print, broadcast, and social media to convince COVID-wary audience members...
Details Of Venice’s Planned Day-Tripper Tax Are Set
Regional lawmakers have approved a "contributo di accesso" ranging from €3 to €10 based on the time of year, and day visitors will have...
Actors Stranded In Sydney With No Work Or Money By Lockdown And Border Closures
With the Delta variant on the rise in the city, many Melbourne-based actors who had been performing in Sydney were contractually obligated to their...
The AI Program That Wrote A Guardian Essay Is Now Writing A Play
"The GPT-3 system argued (in the article) that humans had nothing to fear from robots. Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, read...
Why Does English Have No Equivalent Of The Académie Française? Pestilence
The Royal Society of London actually did attempt to start one in the winter of 1665, with a committee that included poets Abraham Cowley...
What’s The Torture In Today’s Russian Prison Camps? Eight Hours A Day Of State...
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny says the prison he's in isn't like the old Soviet gulag, with inmates doing hard labor in subzero weather. Instead,...
Desperate Venezuelans Turn To An Old Video Game To Earn Hard Currency
A large community has grown up around a now-outdated version of the online game RuneScape — and many players in rich countries don't want...
Emerson String Quartet Announces Retirement
The group, which for decades has been one of the world's most admired of its kind, said in a statement that it will close...
Who That Album Cover’s Naked Baby Is Today, And The Real Reason He’s Suing...
Spencer Elden claims that the band exploited him with what he now calls child pornography — but he's been exploiting that image of his...
L.A. Opera Builds All Scenery For New Production In Ten Days
The company's return to live performance, Verdi's Il trovatore, was to use sets from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo — but they're on a container...
Dealer Charged With Larceny And Fraud For Manufacturing Fake Antiquities
"Prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building,...
Bramwell Tovey Named Music Director Of Sarasota Orchestra
The 68-year-old chief conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, formerly music director of the Vancouver and Winnipeg Symphonies and Calgary Opera, begins a five-year...
Australian Rock Art May Be 43,000 Years Old
Archaeologists using new measuring techniques have analyzed layers of a mineral glaze covering ancient figures in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and the...
If Edinburgh Is Overtouristed, Don’t Blame The Festivals, Blame UNESCO: City’s Ex-Culture Chief
"Lynne Halfpenny … insisted the Old Town and the Royal Mile had become overwhelmed with visitors and was seen as a 'bucket list' destination...
Because Multiple Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Are Not Enough, Here Come The Immersive Monets
"Not one, not two, but three separate traveling immersive exhibitions based on the famed Impressionist's paintings are currently gearing up — and one could...
Many People Don’t Realize That John Cage Wrote Some Quiet, Very Beautiful Music
Aficionados may love Suite for Toy Piano or Sonatas and Interludes, but mostly folks know only the conceptual piece 4'33" or raucous chance-based works...
Manufacturer Alan Heller, Dead At 81, Manufactured Plastic Housewares That Were Colorful And Even...
“Plastic in those days was ugly, and it was cheap. But Alan and (designers) the Vignellis had made something that was beautiful, and it...
A New Tool To Try To Decode The Voynich Manuscript?
The 15th-century volume is written in a neat, careful script that bears little resemblance to any natural language, and no one has yet cracked...
Kuwait Freaks Out Over One Women-Only Belly Dancing Class
"The Kuwaiti Ministry of Commerce and Industry rushed to close down a sports club and suspended all its activists for the foreseeable future, in...
How Could Sony Have Let The Mike Richards ‘Jeopardy!’ Fiasco Happen? Like This
In case anyone was still wondering, yes, Richards-as-executive-producer definitely rigged the choice of Richards as host. Here's a look at the circumstances, expected and...
As Pandemic Worsens, So Does Outlook For LA’s Small Theaters
"And so the question looms: How much longer can these companies stay afloat financially? With pandemic funding drying up, 99-seat theaters are scrambling to...
NBCUniversal Seeks To Boot Nielsen From Top Of Ratings Measurement Business
Nielsen had long been the undisputed master of counting broadcast media's audience, but its traditional methods have had trouble accurately measuring the number of...
Smithsonian Kicks Off Major New Project On America’s Racial History
"'Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past' (is) an ambitious multiyear program … that will tap into the vast expertise of the Smithsonian...
