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Lauren Gunderson leads the list for the second time, this year with 33 productions. Lauren Yee is runner-up with 18, while Lucas Hnath is tied with Tennessee Williams for the third slot (17 …
"Thanks to international sales and global viewership, Turkey is second only to the US in worldwide TV distribution " finding huge audiences in Russia, China, Korea and Latin America." Report…
"In this post and the series of corresponding profession-specific stories we've published, we're going to be giving proper credit to those people whose work truly brings entertainment to lif…
"Many audiences haven't seen August Wilson's plays done well, so my mission is to go out and do the plays well the way the author intended. The celebration of African American life and the w…
"The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow will soon take over the running of Russia's National Centre for Contemporary Arts, whose nine branches extend from Kaliningrad on the Baltic …
"A federal appeals court attempted to close the book on endless litigation between the relatives of author John Steinbeck in a ruling that upheld a $5 million verdict against his daughter-in…
Pavel Ustinov, 24, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison for assaulting a police officer, though video shows that he was simply a bystander who was attacked by police at a demonstration. Ma…
Lara Pellegrinelli writes that, "as a lover of words, I'd once held the opinion that 'Notes on the Program' are bound to be mind-numbingly, soul-crushingly boring " or one of the more effect…
"The fight has pitted two strong-willed artistic leaders against one another: Christian Thielemann, the principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Easter Festival's artistic di…
"[She] earned three Emmy Awards, was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000 and was named a 'living legend' by the Library of Congress in 2008. The consummate Washin…
"There has at last been an arrest in a high-profile string of suspected Old Master forgeries uncovered in 2016. An Italian painter, Lino Frongia, 61, was taken into custody in northern Italy…
"We will note that 'they' has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular 'they' mirrors the development of the singular 'you' from th…
It's kind of calling-for-immediate-attention bell that invites a sharp smack with palm or finger, and drives Basil Fawlty to the very verge of derangement. Ping! It's a comedy device " an in…
Think you (or your organization) don't understand the people you are trying to reach? If you are talking about people other than your current attendees/donors and their peers, you are 100% c…
Sediqa Sherzai founded Radio Roshani in Kunduz in 2008. The Taliban fired rockets at the station the next year. In 2015 they stole the station's equipment and planted mines in the building. …
"The accompanying political narrative was that the creative industries would champion the social utility of arts and culture as progressive realms to engage fractured communities, realise pr…
"With just 10 dancers, [Ballet X is] a model of what is possible for small contemporary ballet troupes " and it embodies many of the ideals that larger companies are striving for today. It c…
"These tufty mammals are the stars of Philippe Quesne's The Moles, which ran at N.Y.U. Skirball over the weekend and kicked off with a Friday afternoon parade through the West Village. A roc…
"As the wind goes around the building, it accelerates, and it creates vortices that alternate, causing the building to move from side to side. Sometimes we can use that phenomenon, cutting o…
Three years ago, the invention of Vantablack, a carbon nanotube coating that absorbs up to 99.965% of all light, made headlines, especially when artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights…
"As the 2019 school year gets underway, ProjectArt, an initiative founded by Ardash Alphons in Harlem in 2011, is expanding to New Orleans and San Francisco, bringing arts access to two citi…
The Orchestre Métropolitain, where native Montrealer YNS held his first music director position (beginning in 2000) and which he brought to international attention, has appointed him Artist…
"After a great deal of reflection," said Woods in a statement, "I have concluded that my hopes and aspirations lie elsewhere, and as a result, I have tendered my resignation." He served in t…
The 2019 laureates for the Â¥15 million ($141,000) award, created by the Japan Art Association as a sort of Nobel Prize for the arts, are William Kentridge (painting) Mona Hatoum (sculptur…
"Fans of the surreal, the bizarre and sardonic anthropomorphic cows are in a fervour after The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson's website was updated this weekend with promises of 'a new onli…
