"When nonbinary actor Rae Hamilton-Vargo first began their career in Chicago, they had two resumes: one with their pronouns, and one without. … These days, Hamilton-Vargo has one resume, a…
"More than 60 years after Marian Anderson broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera, black singers still face unique obstacles in building their careers within the industry. … Stil…
"Almost certainly more than any other media in our country, literary magazines model critical thinking and arrange an exposure to the unorthodox, both of which can provide inoculations again…
"In a literary career that spanned more than 20 years, Mead wrote five poetry collections and her work was regularly published in anthologies and journals. She was a Griffin Poetry Prize and…
The just-published, unfinished 200-page volume, titled The Four Corners of the Heart and described as "a laconic dissection of the lives of the French haute bourgeoisie," is the big news of …
"Italy and France are set to sign an agreement to exchange works by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, burying a spat triggered by Italy's former populist government. The deal … will result in…
Events labeled "relaxed performances" are ones where it's okay for the audience to move around, make noise, leave and return to the auditorium if you need to, etc.; there's usually one per r…
"Our ears take in the score, the artists' breathing patterns, fellow audience members' reactions, and the physical percussion made by the dancers' footfalls and partnering. All of this infor…
"We want to announce little nuggets at a time and build as much excitement as we can," says Arkansas Philharmonic executive director Jason Miller. This is one of several new initiatives " an…
"To examine the evolving representation of work by female artists in American museums and the global auction market over the past decade, we not only delved into data, but also conducted ext…
The chosen work is Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, with a libretto by Kasi Lemmons based on the memoir by New York Times columnist Charles Blow, premiered this past summer at O…
The host and creator of This American Life has recorded five spots urging people to become donors to their public radio stations at about the lowest possible rate. Why? Basically, for the sa…
"NPR is projecting that podcast sponsorship revenues will surpass revenues from broadcast sponsorships next year for the first time. … The network has budgeted about $55 million in corpora…
His 1970 solo show at the Grand Palais in Paris meant to establish Bacon in the very highest echelons of living painters " even, he hoped, as a peer to Picasso. Then his erstwhile lover, the…
Whitman wrote a sequence of poems title "Live Oak, With Moss" " inspired, scholars believe, by his romance with one Fred Vaughan " but scattered them throughout his 1860 edition of Leaves of…
The Theater on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts "was the charismatic Ms. Corwin's baby. She proposed it to the library in 1969 and, told that she …
Two burglars cut through a fence at the artist's Paris property and tried to take apart one of his sculptures made from the now-removed old lead roof of Cologne Cathedral, probably to sell t…
Is it a sensitive portrait of a segregated Black community? Or is it a parade of stereotypes performed in embarrassing dialect? Is it a triumph of the American melting pot, with the sons of …
"Though they've been ignored or underheard, African-American composers have long been crafting ambitious music dramas. Some of the works cited below exist in complete editions, ready to be p…
His career goes all the way back to 1946 at Stratford, through a 1970 Midsummer Night's Dream and a nine-hour Mahabharata from the '80s that arguably changed theatre history, to a new book t…
"Dance moguls Debbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe are organizing a new two-week festival next spring" " titled, simply, the Los Angeles International Dance Festival " "featuring local and global …
"Findings from the Ruderman Family Foundation's just released effort, Disability Inclusion in Movies and Television, show that … 55% would like to see characters with disabilities portraye…
"Are orchestras dying? These smaller groups are alive and well … The … orchestras presented below offer perhaps five programs a year, with freelance professional players, on a fraction o…
"Last week, the city announced that it has committed $15 million to fund the design and construction of the Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center in Inwood, the northernmost neighbor…
It's a list packed with ties this season: A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time lead with a dozen productions each, there's a two-way ti…