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The Broadway Actor Arrested For A Role In The January 6 Riot At The...
His non-Broadway role as a Michael Jackson impersonator gave him away - and federal investigators attended LA and San Francisco performances where actor James...
As The Pandemic Ticks Toward A Third Year, The Arts Are More Important To...
"For arts institutions looking to make the changes the public wants to see, the numbers couldn’t be clearer: lowering ticket and entry prices should...
Playwright Dominque Morisseau Pulls Her Play From The Geffen
The entire run of Paradise Blue has been canceled. The playwright wrote on Facebook "that her decision came after she discovered that Black women...
One Way To Enjoy The Harry Potter Universe Again
A Harry Potter universe free of J.K. Rowling's anti-trans commentary! A universe where the fanfiction pairing "Wolfstar" is real. It's 500,000 words long, even...
As Coronavirus Surges Again In Europe, Restrictions On Performance Return
"After months of relative normalcy, Europe’s opera houses, concert halls and theaters are reintroducing measures all too familiar from earlier phases of the pandemic,...
Stephen Sondheim Solved Puzzles Of Theatre, And Much More
"His achievement is Shakespearean. Like Shakespeare, he inherited an art form and theater scene from a previous generation, then pushed the boundaries of what...
Sondheim Fans Gather To Mourn, Together, At Piano Bars Across Manhattan
"It seemed important to hold a space for folks to feel whatever they needed to, to sing and cry and laugh and be with...
Composer And Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Master Of Musical Theatre, 91
Impossible to sum the central figure of American musical theatre up, but: "Sondheim not only bound music, lyrics and book inextricably together, but he...
Pianist Stephen Hough: Music Isn’t Icing On The Cake Of Life, It Is Life
Hough played the first live, streamed concert after shutdown to an empty hall in London. "It was a reminder of how important a cog...
The Deep Emotional Appeal Of Nature Photos
Photos of animals bypass logic and get directly to the heart. One photographer makes sure her subjects are looking directly at the camera: "We...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Turned Jonathan Larson’s Solo Show Into A Filmed Rock Opera
It's not a direct adaptation: "Miranda and his co-writer Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen) have added music from Larson's other shows, tweaked some of...
How Saturday Night Live Turned Itself Into The Internet
"Given the anxious state of the world today, watching the show has started to feel uncannily like doomscrolling through a social-media feed." That's mixed with daffy...
San Antonio Symphony Musicians Strike To Prevent Personnel And Pay Cuts
Mary Ellen Goree, principal second violin: "I cannot sit on stage in my chair knowing that 26 of my colleagues lost their jobs just...
We Need To Puncture Our Knowledge Bubbles
"What we don’t know — about the lives of our neighbors and fellow citizens and why they think the way they do — is...
An Ancient Book’s Journey From Irish Bog To Museum
It was a scary path. "Archaeologists placed the 'conglomeration' of squashed pages, leather and turf in a walk-in cold store in the museum at...
An Appreciation Of Dave Hickey, Prolific Art Critic
Christopher Knight: "Lots of smart people write smart things about art but nobody was a better writer than Dave. ... Hickey, a brilliant and...
Gary Shteyngart On The Keys To Writing Novels Quickly
The novelist, who says it doesn't get any easier no matter how many you've written, has a few tips like, well, write what you...
A Man Who Helped Loot Cambodia Wants To Atone, And Recover The Artifacts
Toek Tik was "an unschooled man from a thatch-roofed hut who recently began disclosing to authorities how he oversaw hundreds of confederates as they...
Why Are Online Art Shows Phoning It In?
After all, we've had nearly two years to experiment and make them at least decent, if not great. - Hyperallergic
This Year, Says The Palme D’Or Winner, Women Kicked ‘Serious Ass’ In Film
The winner at Cannes, Julia Ducournau is excited "about the current boom in female horror; she particularly rates British films by Rose Glass (Saint...
How Pianist Bruce Liu Won The Chopin Competition
According to the Canadian pianist Liu, the answer after an extra COVID year was spontaneity. "That was the challenge, actually: to not get bored...
Lockdown Band The Verinos Tells Middle-Aged Women It’s Time To Make More Music
"'Often there's that idea that you're just going to dig your garden and go to Zumba or visit a National Trust property,' songwriter and...
The Documentary Effect
In recent weeks, documentaries about R. Kelly, Britney Spears, Malcolm X's killers, and Julius Jones appear to have had real-world effects. Why now? Theory:...
An Archconservative Flips Out About The Met
The museum has an Afrofuturist room; therefore, civilization as "we" know it is ending. "Conservatives want to conserve. ... But if you value history,...
Adele Changed Spotify This Weekend
She told Spotify to quit with the shuffle on albums - and "on Saturday, the streaming giant confirmed that it had agreed to the...
