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An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82
"He departed from the 'confessional' style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a 'meditative' or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style...
LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
Artistic director Chris Fields: "We've had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about...
To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce...
They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors
The dance festival in the Berkshires is coming back from last summer's cancellation, the first in its 89-year history, and the destruction of its...
Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece
Picasso's Head of a Woman and Mondrian's Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized...
Painting Falls Off Wall, Turns Out To Be Lost Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi hanging in a country house near Rome was assumed to be a copy. But, five years ago, the owners...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over...
Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
"Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch...
By The Bay, Bhangra Meets Bollywood And Struts It On YouTube
"Today, artists like Toor, 31, are changing the way that bhangra and other Indian dance genres are seen, creating dances meant to be consumed...
What You Get When You Cross Opera With Prestige TV
"Desert In is an operatic experiment. Co-produced by Long Beach Opera and by Boston Lyric Opera, which commissioned the work, the eight-episode streaming miniseries...
Can Writers Make Money From NFTs, Too? Some Are Trying
"It's hard to make sense of what the NFT creative landscape might mean for otherwise underpaid writers. At once, it's a place for writers...
It Seems Philosopher John Locke Was Kind Of A Jerk
"John Locke is regarded today as one of England's greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the 'father of liberalism'. But a previously unknown...
Why Composer John Tavener Is Getting A Premiere Eight Years After He Died
Oboist Nicholas Daniel: "This week, singer Andrew Watts and I will make our fourth attempt to give the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's...
Construction Of Mexico’s Maya Train Is Turning Up All Sorts Of Antiquities. Are They...
The 932-mile railroad project, connecting cities, historical sites, and beach resorts in the Yucatan Peninsula, has turned up more than 13,000 Mayan artifacts so...
Saving Australia’s Literary Heritage Before It Goes Out Of Print And Gets Pulped
"This is the unfortunate fate of most books, even literary prize-winners. … something that Untapped: The Australian Literary Heritage Project is trying to...
NPR Cancels ‘Ask Me Another’
"More than 300 stations air the show, hosted by comedian and writer Ophira Eisenberg and featuring Jonathan Coulton as in-house musician. … However, 'despite...
Yes, There Will Be A Cultural Olympics In Tokyo This Summer — Sort Of
"The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has unveiled plans for the inaugural Olympic Agora, an exhibition and series of art installations that celebrate...
West End’s Top Producers Sue UK Government To Get Results Of COVID Pilot Events
"Andrew Lloyd Webber and other impresarios said on Thursday they had started legal action to press Britain's government to publish research into the safety...
Egyptian Farmer Discovers 2,600-Year-Old Monument To Pharaoh
The carved sandstone stele, measuring roughly 8½ feet long by 3½ wide, holds 15 lines of hieroglyphs topped by a winged sun disc and...
A New Company To Get Retired Dancers Back Onstage
Alice Topp and Jon Buswell, resident choreographer and technical director at the Australian Ballet, have just launched a Melbourne-based troupe called Project Animo, whose...
Why We Should All Love Epigraphs
Thomas Swick: "The epigraph page is like a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author with his or her beloved quotation...
Judith Farr, Poet And Emily Dickinson Scholar, Dead At 85
"A longtime professor at Georgetown University, published two seminal academic books examining the place of art and nature in Dickinson's poetry, The Passion...
