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‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’
That's how one scholar summarizes the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were written, yes, by the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon — but...
Manfred Fischbeck, Who Built Audience For Avant-Garde Dance In Philadelphia, Dead At 80
"For more than 50 years, was an indefatigable contributor to the contemporary experimental dance scene in Philadelphia and around the world. … Mr....
Right-Wing Populists In Europe Are Going After Public Broadcasters
"In some countries, such as Hungary and Poland, illiberal governments are turning them into mouthpieces for the ruling party. In others, such as Germany...
Bayeux Tapestry May Be Too Damaged To Travel To UK
There was quite some excitement in January of 2018 when President Emmanuel Macron announced that the 950-year-old, 2,300-foot-long needlework depicting the Norman Conquest would...
California’s Arts Institutions Will Reopen June 15 (Won’t They?)
"California officials shocked the performing arts community Tuesday when they announced plans to fully reopen the economy June 15 if certain vaccination and hospitalization...
Suspect Arrested For Theft Of Van Gogh And Hals Paintings In Netherlands
"The police announced on Tuesday morning that they had arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing both Vincent Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden...
India Eliminates Appeals Of Film Censorship Board’s Decisions
"The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps the Information and Broadcasting ministry's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, the first avenue of appeal...
Morris Dickstein, Cultural Historian And Literary Critic, Dead At 81
"A self-described 'freethinking intelligence yet a child of the ghetto,' … a public intellectual who examined such topics as the cultural ferment of...
Latvia’s Huge Body Of Traditional Poetry Is Finally Appearing in English
The verses, typically four lines long and metrical, are called daina. Thanks to an effort to transcribe them in the 19th and 20th centuries,...
How Do You Become A Broadway Choreographer? It’s Not Easy, But It’s Fairly Straightforward
"In much of the dance world, the process of becoming successful as a choreographer can seem frustratingly oblique. On Broadway, however, that path is...
Salman Rushdie: India Is No Longer The Country I Wrote About In ‘Midnight’s Children’
"When I wrote this book I could associate big-nosed Saleem with the elephant-trunked god Ganesh, the patron deity of literature, among other things, and...
The Spectacular Golden Parade Of The Mummified Pharaohs
"Crowds gathered on Saturday to witness the multimillion-dollar spectacle of 18 kings and four queens making the 7km journey (four miles) from the Egyptian...
Another Pandemic Silver Lining: Overhaul Of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall Is Way Ahead...
"With concerts in the hall canceled since March 2020, construction began in earnest over the past few months. Work is expected to continue for...
Guillermo Del Toro Absolved In ‘Shape Of Water’ Plagiarism Case
"The producers of The Shape of Water will no longer have to contend with a copyright lawsuit that claims that Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro...
Want A Subscription With Top Seats To Broadway Shows At Philly’s Kimmel Center? Give...
"The Kimmel Center is instituting a mandatory $1,000 donation for access to the best seats in its Broadway series. That's $1,000 up front, before...
A Report From New York’s Wary Return To Indoor Shows
"Like budding flowers awakening just in time for spring, music, dance, theater and comedy began a cautious return this past week as venues were...
Spoleto Festival USA Moves Cautiously Back Into Live Performance
There will be 80 events spread across four stages, three of them outdoors and two of those newly-constructed. (The old Dock Street Theater, site...
From The Wreckage Left By ISIS, Mosul’s Museum Begins To Rise Again
"By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been...
Savage Beauty
A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a...
Ashleigh Gordon Shares the Castle of our Skins
The co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a collective of artists of all kinds dedicated to advancing Black artistry through...
You’re Teaching Dance To Incarcerated Men. COVID Locks Everything Down. How Do You Keep...
Good old-fashioned letters, it turns out. Choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman has been running her Dancing Through Prison Walls project with inmates of the...
Museums’ Secret Weapon For COVID Safety: Really Good HVAC
The standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning at North American and European museums tend to be quite high: minimizing airborne dust and maintaining...
She Was The First Englishwoman Ever To Earn A Living Writing. She Was Also...
She traveled to the Low Countries and Suriname on missions for King Charles II, and she took up writing to support herself because he...
What A Raga Is, And What It Is Not
"I should say that a raga is not a tune. It's not a note, not a scale, not a composition — although the raga...
‘Follies’ At 50: Why Sondheim’s Musical May Be The Most Important Flop Ever To...
"It was supposed to be a murder mystery: two couples, four motives, one gun. What it became was a different kind of mystery entirely:...