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How Director Mary Friedman Solved The Riddle Of Sondheim’s Notoriously Challenging “Merrily We Roll...
"Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer," writes Charles McNulty, "though there’s a bit more to it than that." Friedman and star Jonathan Groff...
Why San Francisco Opera Is Getting Trauma Counselors For Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence”
"(The company) has developed trauma trainings, a symposium, and post-performance discussions to help guide people through the heavy subject matter" — a mass shooting...
Kaija Saariaho’s Harrowing Final Opera Arrives In The U.S., Where It Will Be Even...
Innocence, as the work is called, has been hugely impressing (and depressing) audiences and critics in Europe since its 2021 premiere at the Aix-en-Provence...
Hollywood’s Tech Crew Members Are “In Panic Mode” As Aftereffects Of Strikes Linger
The volume of film and video being produced in Southern California is still far below what it was before last year's writers' and actors'...
Harvey Weinstein Will Likely Face New, Separate Sexual Assault Charges In New York
Manhattan prosecutors, preparing for retrial after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by New York state's highest court in late April, say they'll try to...
Drag Now Has Its Own National Advocacy And Service Organization
"Qommittee says it hopes, among other things, to connect drag performers and communities lacking in local support to resources including legal aid and therapy....
London’s Evening Standard To End Daily Print Edition And Become Free Weekly
The Standard, which has suffered six straight annual losses (most recently, £16.4 million through October 2022), hopes to repeat the successful switch to digital-only...
Sotheby’s To Lay Off 50 Staffers In Its UK Office: Report
"The house is reportedly set to cut around 50 employees based in London, and … similar layoffs may follow in New York and at...
It’s True: Audra McDonald Will Play Mama Rose In “Gypsy” On Broadway This Fall
“It’s one of the great roles in musical theater, and I’ve always thought maybe some day I could try it,” she said. “It scares...
La Scala’s Departing Superintendent Leaves The House, And Its Opera And Ballet Companies, In...
Despite beginning the job just as COVID shut down live performance, Dominique Meyer has increased corporate sponsorships to €38 million and has seen both...
What One Finds In Alice Munro’s Notebooks
"In them one finds a little bit of everything: fragments and false starts, alternate endings, even drawings. The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and...
Investigation Into Competition-Fixing In Irish Dance Is Dropped, And Everyone is Angry
Because one key witness is ill and has stopped cooperating, the investigation has collapsed, the accused get no chance to clear their names, reformers...
Co-Producers To Be Barred From Crowding Onstage To Accept Tony Awards
Co-producers meaning, in this case, the many individuals who provided or raised money to run the production — and these days, it takes a...
Jaap Van Zweden’s Strange, Abbreviated Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
He departs this month after only six seasons, three of those cut short by the COVID pandemic. And, while proud of his work there,...
TikTok Places Limits On Reach Of State-Affiliated Media Outside Their Home Countries
As part of an effort to control interference with elections, "state-affiliated media accounts will not be put on the 'For You' page, which is...
What Is This About A TikTok Dance Cult?
A three-part Netflix documentary titled Dancing for the Devil looks into a Southern California management company called 7M and its affiliate Christian church, Shekinah....
Over 600 Looted Artifacts, Worth $80 Million, Returned To Italy From The US
"Ranging from life-sized bronze statues to tiny Roman coins, from oil paintings to mosaic flooring, the pieces span the 9th century BC to the...
Someone Tells The New York Times He’s The Guy Behind The Foreclose-On-And-Auction-Off-Graceland Scam
Little about this matter has turned out to be what it first appeared, and there's little independent confirmation besides the email address that messages...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Given Suspended Prison Sentence For Attempting To Solicit Sex From A...
"(He) had admitted arranging sex acts with someone he thought was a teenager, but was in fact an undercover police officer. … On Tuesday,...
One Of Every Four Ancient Rock Art Sites In Wyoming Has Been Vandalized
There are over 1,100 such sites known in the state; most have been discovered during preparation for coal and oil projects. Vandalism to the...
Weeping And Wailing On Broadway (And This Is Good News)
Critic Elisabeth Vincentelli reports that audiences being moved to actual tears (and, yes, even wailing on occasion) has become surprisingly commonplace this season —...
Missy Mazzoli Is Composing An Opera About The Opioids Crisis
The Galloping Cure, with a story and libretto by Karen Russell (author of the novel Swamplandia!) and Royce Vavrek (possibly America's busiest librettist), will...
How An Antiquities Dealer On A Small Danish Island Discovered The British Museum Thefts
"In 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr. Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller he had been buying from was a thief who was...
At New York City’s Public School For Dance
"Ballet Tech … isn’t just a dance school; it’s an academic one, too. A collaboration between the New York City Department of Education and...
Britain’s Leading Literature Festival Drops Its Principal Sponsor After Withdrawals And Boycott Threats
The British investment firm Baillie Gifford became lead sponsor of the Hay Festival in 2015, but this year a number of the marquee participants...