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Take It From A Times Theater Critic: The Trump-To-Shakespeare Analogies Really Don’t Work
Jesse Green: "I admit that I do it too. … But even these comparisons are reductive — in both directions. Shakespeare's characters are much...
Egyptian Queen’s 4,200-Year-Old Tomb, 13-Foot Papyrus, And Even More Painted Coffins: The Latest Treasures...
"Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial...
With New Contract, SoCal’s Pacific Symphony Can Start Playing Again
Last week the Orange County orchestra's musicians and management agreed on a four-year contract, running through the 2023-24 season. "Crucially, the agreement lays out...
Trump’s NEA Chair Departs As Biden Administration Arrives
"National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Mary Anne Carter has resigned as head of the federal agency, telling her staff in a letter sent...
BBC Faces ‘Financial Risk’ As Viewers’ Habits Change
The UK's national broadcaster is funded by mandatory license fees, charged annually to every household that owns a television set. But as more and...
Founders Of Belarus Free Theatre Get Death Threats From Lukashenko Government
"We will definitely find you … and we will hang you side by side." So said a column in Sovietska Belarus, the more-or-less official...
‘Für Elise” — Igor Levit Says That Piece You Hate From Piano Lessons Is...
"It's just emptiness. How great must a composer be to allow himself to write about nothing?" The pianist has a go at persuading Joshua...
How Did American Theater Deal With The Trump Era? Urgently
"For the most part, it didn't aim straight at the president. … Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays — like Heidi Schreck's...
Black Ballet Dancers Talk About How To Move Toward Equity And Inclusion
Black artists From Boston Ballet, ABT, New York City Ballet, BalletMet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Tanzcompany Innsbruck, the Trocks, and the pool of freelance...
First New Blue Pigment In Two Centuries Now Available To Public
"YInMn Blue, the brilliant pigment discovered in 2009 at an Oregon State University lab, … was finally approved by the EPA for use in...
Streaming Giants From U.S. May End Up Saving Canadian TV Industry
"Canada forcing Netflix and other foreign streamers to pour $800 million annually into local Canadian content will be a lifeline for world-beating creators, say...
Philip J. Smith, Chairman Of Shubert Organization, Dead Of COVID At 89
"A low-key businessman who started as a movie usher, presided for more than a decade over the nation's oldest and largest theatrical company,...
UK Arts Venues Sigh With Relief As Supreme Court Rules Insurers Must Pay COVID...
"The case has been rumbling on for a while, triggered when a variety of insurance companies stated that their business interruption schemes did not...
Opera Director Elijah Moshinsky Dead Of COVID At 75
"He made his operatic debut in 1975 when he directed a stripped-back Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House. The production was so successful...
U.S. Cultural Institutions Are Hiring Diversity Officers. It’s A Start.
"At the same time, experts warn, longstanding challenges remain — antiracism goals that are hard to measure; finding funds to pay for these efforts;...
Paris Loses One Of Its Favorite Bookstores
"Gibert Jeune, a popular chain, has announced it will be closing its flagship shop in the Latin Quarter in March – the latest in...
Fire At Brussels’s Major Art Museum
Flames broke out on the roof of Bozar (the Musée des Beaux-Arts) in the Belgian capital on Monday afternoon (Jan. 18). No civilians were...
This Old Dutch Master’s Art Is Totally Homoerotic — How Did Everyone Miss This...
Powerfully muscled backs, piston thighs, meaty buttocks you could bounce quarters off for days. "In a flare of lusty creativity, from the late 1580s...
When Yiddish-Speaking Puppets Roamed The World
Puppetry had never been part of the Yiddish theater tradition, but in 1920s America, they were all the rage. So in 1925-26, a pair...
How Paris Theatres Keep Putting On Plays While The Pandemic Has Stopped Public Performances
Shows were running in the French capital for a few months last year, before a big new wave of COVID infections led to a...
This Broadway Chorus Boy Is Dancing TikTok Duets With The Great Tap Stars Of...
"Cory Lingner … using the app to tap alongside some of the most iconic movie stars, including Gene Kelly, Gregory Hines, Ann Miller...
With Michael Apted Gone, Can His ‘Up’ Documentaries Keep Going?
Beginning in 1964 with Seven Up!, Apted made a series of nine films, shot at seven-year-intervals, following the lives of a group of 14...
Howard Johnson, Pioneering Virtuoso Of Jazz Tuba, Dead At 73
"Before Johnson, in instances wherein the tuba was part of a jazz arrangement, it was typically confined to bass parts. Johnson demonstrated a prowess...
Amazon Sued For Colluding With Big Five Publishers In E-Book Price-Fixing
"The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York on January 14 by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, … currently names only Amazon as...
Two Baritones Learned That Where They Were Working When The Pandemic Hit Made All...
Jarrett Ott and Steven LaBrie met in music school in Philadelphia and remained friends as they moved to New York and their careers grew....