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Actor Jessica Walter Dead At 80
"Walter's six-decade acting career spanned across film and television, from Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, to the voice of Malory Archer...
Literature Of Contagion: When Writers Tell Stories Of Plagues, How Do They End?
Edgar Allan Poe ended his short story with "Darkness and Decay and the Red Death illimitable dominion over all." Others, from Daniel Defoe...
The STEEP Road Back
The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease...
China’s Architects Turn Attention To Ailing Villages
After a couple of decades of enormous urban growth led to thousands of emptied-out villages, both Chinese government policy and the mood of ordinary...
Modernist Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dead At 91
"His residences had signature touches like 45-degree pitched roofs, clean lines, minimal ornamentation, masterful use of lighting and windows, and décor that included his...
She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
Susan Jaffe was announced as the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre last April, near COVID's first peak in the U.S., and she...
Spain’s Drive-In Movie Theaters Plead For Exemption From COVID Curfew
The country is already one time zone ahead of where it should be geographically (Spain is on Central European Time rather than GMT), so...
3,000-Year-Old Bronze Bull Unearthed By Rainstorms At Site Of Ancient Olympic Games
An archaeologist working at Olympia noticed what turned out to be one of the horns of the bull figurine sticking up out of the...
Britain’s Biggest Theatre Owner Buys Three Venues In San Francisco And Detroit
Ambassador Theatre Group is purchasing from the Nederlander Co. the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatres in San Francisco and the Fisher Theatre in Detroit,...
Black Composer Says Tulsa Opera “Decommissioned’ Him Over Line ‘God Damn America’
For a program commemorating the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (the one in which the area known as "Black Wall Street" was...
A COVID-Safe Mask Opera Singers Can Really Sing In
Dr. Sanziana Roman, an endocrine surgeon at UCSF who was once a voice major at Cornell (and who can sew as well), worked with...
Under Pressure, Chair Promises That Hong Kong’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Will Obey...
The chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the Lincoln Center-like complex under construction on the harbor, publicly pledged that curators at the...
Australia Promises More Arts Relief Money, But Still Hasn’t Given Out Most Of What...
"Australia's arts and entertainment industry will receive an additional $135m in the next federal budget to ease the pain in one of the sectors...
Science Fiction Was Depicting Climate Change More Than A Century Ago
"For a few decades in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, authors from across ideologies and genres published stories that today would be...
Dance Was An Integral Part of Christian Worship For Centuries
In the earliest period of Christianity, dance was frowned upon as pagan. (St. Augustine, in his typical way, was particularly scornful.) But when folks...
3,000-Year-Old Gold, Silk, Jade Discovered In China Could Rewrite History
"The treasures unearthed at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan, belonged to a highly-developed civilisation that may have lasted for thousands of years but...
Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have...
"With more people home and glued to their streaming services, many of which don't allow advertising, companies are finding they need to be creative...
The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)
" the results of an industrywide survey we conducted to answer one simple question: who are the most memorable character actors working today? To...
Actors’ Equity Faces Rebellion Of Its Own Members Over COVID Restrictions
"Quietly simmering frustrations erupted publicly last week, when more than 2,500 union members signed a letter, circulated by a Broadway performer and signed by...
Paris Review Names New Editor (The Second Emily In A Row)
The magazine, co-founded and long run by the late George Plimpton, "has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but...
Mills College Will Shut Itself Down
The 169-year-old liberal arts college in Oakland, which has left an extraordinary legacy in American arts (especially contemporary classical music), is one of the...
Soprano Christine Goerke Named Associate Artistic Director Of Michigan Opera Theatre
"The move brings a singer at the peak of her international career to Detroit. She will perform locally at least once a season, take...
Actor George Segal, 87
" long career began in serious drama but who became one of America's most reliable and familiar comic actors, first in the movies and...
After National Backlash, Australian Festival Cancels Artwork That Was A Very Bad Idea
"On Tuesday afternoon organisers of the festival, which is run by the Museum of Old and New Art , announced that the work...
Hear For Yourself The Difference Between A $5,000 Cello, A $180K Cello, And A...
Wendy Law uses the same bow, in the same room with the same microphone, to play the opening of Bach's First Cello Suite on...