6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Two visual-effects companies will apply CGI to surviving film footage and photographs of the actor, who was killed in a car crash at age 24 in 1955, to create "a realistic version of James D…
"Countless dancers find themselves at a crossroads when they question whether they still love dance, whether the sacrifices are worth it or whether a professional career is truly what they w…
Says Anthony Roth Costanzo, who plays the title role, "It brings you back to the most fundamental things about your technique. And if your house is not in order, you're not going to get thro…
The American Bible Society is building a $60 million museum, roughly halfway between Independence Hall and the National Constitution Center, that it's calling the Faith and Liberty Discovery…
Back in the 1990s, videographer Frederick Allen documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard's 280-year-old wrecked ship on the North Carolina coast. Earlier this decade, a department of …
Shortly after the start of Wednesday evening's performance of this production " well-known for casting Black actors as the Loman family " audience members began to hear dripping water. About…
Most props, most props, you could hold them in your hand. A suitcase. A tooth. A (shudders) doll. They're part of the pleasure of theatre, the imagination made palpable. But sometimes, somet…
This was one the now-forgotten Warner/Reprise "Loss Leader" albums, a series of low-priced sampler albums by Warner/Reprise artists that was one of the most ingenious and effective promotion…
The following is an incredibly thoughtful response written by Carter Gilles to my post The Chasm of Disbelief. I am particularly grateful to him for pointing out the important role that doin…
One night at Hamilton in San Francisco earlier this year, right at the moment of the Hamilton-Burr duel, an audience member had a heart attack; the commotion made some people believe there w…
"Over a career spanning 50 years, [Juan Carlos] Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor " a Gogolian province in the tropics [s…
"The 69-year-old [author of I Will Never See the World Again] was arrested in 2016 with his brother, the economist and journalist Mehmet Altan, on allegations of spreading 'subliminal messag…
"The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Ms. Laforêt won a radio talent contest as a teenager and … went on to appear in 37 feature films, including the 1961 dramas Saint-Tropez Blues,…
Lionheart, by director Genevieve Nnaji, includes only 11 minutes of dialogue that aren't in English. A statement from the Academy said that even though the name of the category was changed t…
"The surprise announcement was made on Tuesday, with the gallery pledging to lend 300 portraits a year to regional galleries and organisations across the UK during the … [£35.5m] revamp…
For the second time in five years, voters in North Carolina's largest city and surrounding Mecklenburg County defeated a proposal to raise the sales tax locally by a one-fourth of a percenta…
"Mr. Gaines, who spent his first 15 years on a plantation near Baton Rouge, later moved with his family to Northern California, but in many ways he never left the landscape, rhythms and pain…
The November 20 event in Tel Aviv was planned as a benefit for a nonprofit providing medical care to indigent patients. But that organization's founder, an Orthodox rabbi, asked that no fema…
"As a playwright Mr. Branch delved into the black experience, both in the 20th century and earlier, in Off-Broadway plays like A Medal for Willie, about the bitterness that ensues when a bla…
After Christina Randall was released from jail after a three-year term for battery and robbery, she finished a bachelor's degree and hoped to get into social work " but with her incarceratio…
The first Wal-Mart outside Arkansas opened in 1968 in Smalltown, U.S.A. Its record section had three bins of classical albums, many of them from Victrola, RCA's budget line, which featured r…
The news came from actress Dakota Johnson, who is to star in the feature, titled Crackpot; the item was buried deep in a news-and-gossip column at the trade website Deadline. The project cou…
"Conlangs" (constructed languages) are hardly new: Esperanto and Volapük were created in the 19th century; Tolkien claimed he wrote his Middle Earth books so that someone would speak the El…
Her most famous role was the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, which she originated in both London and New York (a first for an American in an ALW show), and she garnered a Tony…
As Philip Glass's work about the monotheist pharaoh gets a major revival at the Met, news comes that a new opera on the life of King Tutankhamun is set to premiere late next year in Cairo. T…
