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WGBH, Boston Public Radio/TV Outlet, Lays Off 31 Staffers And Suspends Three TV Programs
"In addition to laying off staff across 13 departments," including 11 people from the newsroom, "GBH will also stop producing (the shows) Greater Boston,...
Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Budget Would Cut California State Arts Funding By Well Over One-Third
Funding to the California Arts Council would fall by 38%, and the state would rescind $12.5 million previously promised to the Equitable Payroll Fund,...
Memphis Judge Puts Hold On Auction Of Graceland To Pay Debt That May Not...
"Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins issued a temporary injunction against the proposed auction that had been scheduled for Thursday in Memphis, where the king...
Confessions Of A Genuine Scrabble Addict
"People attempting to recover from unhealthy obsessions unanimously report a tendency to overthink to the point of debility. Riding the subway uptown to the...
Here’s The Guy Who’s Made His Career Orchestrating, Then Re-Orchestrating, Stephen Sondheim’s Musicals
Jonathan Tunick began his career in the 1960s, when Broadway pit bands were big, and orchestrated all of Sondheim's Broadway shows of the '70s....
Meet The Only Breakdancing Competitor At This Summer’s Olympics With A PhD In The...
"Dr. Rachael Gunn, … the 36-year-old B-girl known as 'Raygun', a portmanteau of her name, completed a thesis in 2017 on the intersection of...
Does Pay-What-You-Can Pricing Really Increase Ticket Sales?
Well, yes and no — depending on what exactly one means by "increase" and "ticket sales." - ArtsHub (Australia)
How The Disassembling Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel Will Actually Work
It's not just that the job is delicate; it has to be done quickly, because the site is undergoing a slow-motion landslide due to...
China Is Using AI-Generated News Anchors To Spread Disinformation In Taiwan And Elsewhere
"The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is...
Philadelphia’s Wilma Wins 2024 Tony Award For Regional Theatre
"Founded in 1973 as an avant-garde theater project committed to local actors, the Wilma has been renowned for its experimental, boundary-pushing work. ... It...
Elvis Presley’s Granddaughter Sues To Prevent What She Says Is A Fraudulent Foreclosure On...
Riley Keough argues that the planned auction of Elvis's home in Memphis to repay a $3.8 million loan to her mother, Lisa Marie Presley...
Visitor Sues Walker Art Center In Minneapolis, Saying She Was Forbidden To Breastfeed Her...
When her infant daughter became hungry at the museum, says Megan Mzenga, she sat down on the nearest couch to nurse; a male staff...
London’s Young Vic Theatre Appoints A New Artistic Director
Nadia Fall, currently director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, will take over from Kwame Kwei-Armah next January 1. The Young Vic first opened in...
2024 International Booker Prize Goes To Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Kairos”
The German novelist shares with translator Michael Hoffmann the £50,000 award for Kairos, which "follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and...
Turkish President Erdoğan Says The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Danger To The Traditional...
"In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described participants at the contest as the 'Trojan horses of social corruption' and said...
Hong Kong’s Major Arts District Warns That It Could Shut Down Without More Funding...
"Henry Tang, chairman of (the) West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, told the government that it must address the district’s funding crisis by August if...
Russian Playwright And Director Now On Trial Over Production Which Allegedly “Justifies Terrorism”
Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and director Zhenya Berkovich have been imprisoned for a year for their staging of Finist, the Brave Falcon. Putin's government argues...
Fraud Trial Begins For Ozy Media Co-Founder Carlos Watson
The former MSNBC morning news anchor created the digital news media company Ozy in 2013. Prosecutors allege that, as it failed to make money,...
Penguin Random House Lays Off Publishers Of Two Of Its Most Prominent Imprints
"The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday the dismissals of Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon/Schocken publisher...
Remember The Choreographer Who Attacked A Critic With Dog Poop? Now There’s A Play...
To be more precise, there is a play about creating a play about the incident, which made headlines worldwide and got the choreographer fired...
Harlem Crypts And Brooklyn Catacombs And Classical Music By Candlelight
Andrew Ousley decided to present his concert series Death of Classical in the crypt of Harlem's Church of the Intercession not only because the...
Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Makers Of Biopic “The Apprentice.” They Aren’t Terribly Worried.
Trump spokesperson: "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which...
OpenAI Hits “Pause” On A ChatGPT Voice After Scarlett Johansson Points Out How Much...
The actress, who voiced the title character of the Spike Jonze movie about a guy falling in love with a chatbot, says OpenAI approached...
Orlando Museum Of Art, In Financial Trouble, Asks Court To Modify Bequest Dedicated To...
Reeling with a $1 million budget deficit on a $4 million budget due largely to "the Basquiat fiasco," the museum wants to re-allocate the...
Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused Of Sexual Assault By Ghanaian Colleague
"British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko accused star artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault in an Instagram post published Sunday and said that he is...