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How One Of Metro DC’s Best Stage Directors Came Back From A Catastrophic Highway...
After midnight on Nov. 30, 2022, Synetic Theater co-founder Paata Tsikurishvili was sitting in traffic when another car rear-ended his and knocked it into...
“The City Hall Powerhouse Shaping London’s Cultural Landscape”
Meet Justine Simons, Mayor Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for culture. - The Standard (London)
Why The Neighbors Are Not Happy That The Burned Herculaneum Scrolls Are Being Deciphered
The news that a team of students, using AI on digital scans, has deciphered the text on one of the scrolls carbonized in the...
When And Where Did The First Indo-European Language Develop? There’s A New Argument About...
"Most linguists think those speakers were nomadic herders on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia about 6,000 years ago. Yet a minority put the...
Finally We’ve Gotten Around To Recognizing That Some of The “Monuments Men” Were Women
"The Dallas-based foundation honoring the group updated its name ... to recognize their contributions, highlighted their work in a new exhibit ..., and is...
Did A Moscow Auction House Just Sell A Painting Looted From A Ukrainian Museum?
The work in question, sold for roughly $1 million early this week, is Ivan Aivazovsky's painting Moonlit Night. Ukraine's prosecutor-general tweeted that the item...
Dallas Arts Groups Nervously Hope Voters Will Approve Ballot Measure With New Arts Funding
"Dallas residents will vote on a $1.25 billion bond package in May, which includes one of the largest allocations for cultural facilities in decades....
Cash-Strapped Metropolitan Opera Has Cut Back On Productions
"(The company) will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81." There's...
Explaining The Censorship Scandal At The Hugo Awards
The controversy is over nominations for the 2023 awards: the ceremony was held for the first time in China, in Chengdu. Memos leaked afterward...
A First: Man On Trial For Streaming Music Fraud
"A Danish man has gone on trial in the city of Aarhus over accusations that he fraudulently made 4.38m kroner (more than $635,000) in...
Smart Glasses Provide Live Captioning For Plays
Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Co. is offering hearing-impaired patrons the use of high-tech eyewear that displays real-time captions, adjustable for placement, size and color. People's...
Russia Arrests Los Angeles Ballerina, A US Citizen, On Charge Of Treason
Ksenia Karelina (also known as Ksenia Khavana), a 33-year-old native of Yekaterinburg who holds both Russian and US citizenship, had been visiting her hometown...
The Alabama Radio Station Whose 200-Foot Transmission Tower Was Stolen Is Back On The...
WJLX (1240 AM) in Jasper has an FM-frequency repeater, but without the AM station's tower providing the original signal and programming, the repeater was...
Alvin Ailey Company Performance In Birmingham, Alabama Cancelled Mid-Show Due To “Cold Temperatures Backstage”
The performance on Feb. 17 began 40 minutes late, the company did one piece, then there was another 40-minute wait before the audience was...
Britain’s Second City, Effectively Bankrupt, Announces Elimination of All Arts Funding
In Birmingham, which faces a long-brewing cash crisis, "grants to regularly-funded arts organisations will face 50% cuts this year and 100% next financial year."...
The Terrifying Logistics Of Getting An Entire U.S. Symphony Orchestra Packed Up And Onto...
"(It's) a finely tuned and precisely orchestrated operation, requiring months of advance planning and permitting, a crew of nearly a dozen workers and an...
Another Frank Gehry Arts Center Is Under Construction In Downtown L.A.
"Preliminary work has begun on a $335-million expansion of the Colburn School of performing arts designed by Gehry that includes a mid-size concert hall...
Cairo Restores And Reopens A Large Portion of The Saladin Citadel
"Cairo's citadel, one of the Egyptian capital's most prominent landmarks, opened another wing housing two semi-circular towers to the public on Sunday. … (The...
The Titles Most Often Stolen From San Francisco Public Libraries, And A Possible Solution
It turns out that the volumes most frequently pilfered from SFPL shelves aren't, say, bestselling thrillers; they're books about addiction and recovery. So city...
At 61, Jodie Foster Is Finally Unclenching And Letting (Some Of) Her Guard Down
"At a certain point, the survival tool, which has kept you safe and kept you warm, which has kept you with your family, it’s...
The Big Hong Kong Arts Complex Designed By Norman Foster’s Firm Is Running Out...
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, which operates M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum as well as a traditional Chinese opera center and...
Trying To Learn To Cry On Cue, The Way Actors Do
Journalist Rachel Handler talks to a somatic psychotherapist, an acting coach to major stars, that coach's son, and several actors and directors, all in...
Merging American Sign Language Into Choreography Aimed At General Audiences
"(There's) a wider shift in the performing arts, one that is more artistically fulfilling for Deaf and ASL-fluent artists and that also repositions accessibility:...
This Upstart Has Surpassed Netflix To Become Africa’s Number-One Streamer
"Showmax — (a South African company) spun out of Africa’s largest entertainment (conglomerate), MultiChoice, in 2015 — had 2.1 million subscribers on the continent...
France Has Expanded Eligibility For Its “Talent Visa” To Include Performers and Artists
The "passeport talent," launched in 2017 for certain highly-skilled individuals, now includes entrepreneurs, investors, and staff employees (as well as freelancers) judged likely to...