"According to the 22nd annual Boxed In report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film …, female characters comprised 45% of all speaking characters across comedies, d…
"[She] overcame sexist attitudes and outright hostility to earn a place on the bandstand alongside such musical stars as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker." " The Washingto…
In 1993, there was a series of break-ins across the more expensive neighborhoods of Los Angeles in which dozens of paintings, antiques, and historic documents were taken. Two perps were capt…
"Show, don't tell" is one of the most basic rules of dramatic writing. Yet the ancient Greeks told-rather-than-showing all the time: convention forbid onstage violence, so messengers recount…
Simon Mellor, the Council's deputy chief executive: "To be clear, of course we're not going to be asking organisations to justify the relevance of individual works of art. We do, however, th…
The tenor's performance at the benefit concert next March would have been his first appearance with The Dallas Opera since his U.S. operatic debut in 1961. (The one accuser in the latest rep…
It remains to be seen whether his cultural benefactions will be augmented by bequests. I'm guessing that museums on the receiving end of such bequests, unless encumbered by unacceptable cond…
In Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast has some advice about hoarding: Don't hold onto anything you don't want your kids to have to sort through once you're gone. For the…
"What I've learned is: I love the danger. This thing I thought I hated all my life, that's why I was doing it. If the show is at 8, and it's 6, what will I be doing? Pacing. After 60 years, …
"By offering vulnerable populations the opportunity to make choices, work collaboratively and express themselves creatively, dance has the power to be transformative." Writer Rachel Caldwell…
More than 9,000 full-time school librarian positions were eliminated from 2009-2016, a 15% reduction, with teachers and their assistants having to add librarians' former duties to their work…
A special package on the great African-American playwright as she approaches her 88th birthday (Sept. 13), including a Q&A with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a feature on the undergraduate pla…
"These kinds of investigations historically have raised more questions than they have answered, leaving victims and the public in the dark about what behavior was documented in the inquiry, …
The flames aren't raging only in Brazil: there have been major wildfires in lowland Bolivia for weeks, and they have damaged and destroyed ancient paintings that date back as for as 1500 BC …
Additionally, "several … backstage employees described for the AP how they strove to shield young women from the star as administrators looked the other way." (These include staffers at Lo…
"The successful candidate will be tasked with overseeing the museum's vast collection of indigenous American artifacts, including the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of more than 116 ob…
As editor at Universal Press Syndicate, beginning in 1974, "he signed up Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac and For Better or For Worse. He discovered The Boondocks and Cathy. He guided Doones…
According to the government's spending review for 2020-21, "the budget of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will increase by 4.1% in real terms to £1.6bn, after …
Tristram Hunt: "I think that the pre-history of fossil fuel companies in muddying the science about climate change, in lobbying, in their political acts, have been pretty criminal and they w…
"Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, as an experienced feature scribe who broke out with 2009's The Proposal, was to be paid a significantly higher fee than [Adele] Lim, a veteran TV writer who never…
Chris Jones recounts what happened at a recent Broadway performance of Harold Pinter's Betrayal when a cell phone went off, repeatedly, and seemed to make Tom Hiddleston cry without breaking…
His weekly satire program, The Night Night Show, has been on television for not quite 18 months, and already Brian Tseng has become a big star. Why? Likely because he'll talk and joke openly…
"In 2014, the D.C. Public Library system hired Jean Badalamenti as assistant manager of health and human services to help the city's 25 libraries better serve as a resource for the city's ro…
"Seven transfers in one season puts [the Williamstown Theater Festival] at the top of the list of New York stage feeders; no single theater, let alone one that's lit only 50 days a year, com…
Several lawsuits filed against Epstein's estate "say that when [he] was luring teenagers into sexual exploitation in Florida, he was using a network of recruiters within New York City's danc…