In George Brant's solo play Tender Age, actor Carlo Albán (whose parents brought him from Ecuador to the U.S. as a child) plays a Latino Texan who takes a job as a guard in a Brownsville …
"[The 77-year-old ex-Beatle] will write music and lyrics for the project. Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot and screenwriter for the recent Elton John biopic Rocketman, is also writing lyrics…
Nancy Wozny: "We used to be able to tell a dancer's ancestry " be it Graham, Cunningham or Balanchine " by their movement." No more: "I've always felt my gift to the field is being able to p…
In the Russian Federation's Sakha Republic " whose capital, Yakutsk, is considered the coldest big city on Earth " locally-made movies, many in the local Yakut language, often outsell intern…
"It is thought that having visible cameras that are clearly recording situations will help staff feel more empowered, and reports from West End trials found that aggressive individuals had b…
It's really no more difficult than moving any other painting its size, but even so, the process involves careful scheduling and a dry run with a dummy painting. " BBC
New Yorker Comma Queen Mary Norris welcomes a new book about the semicolon and gives a quick overview of the mark's history (which goes back to 1494) and looks to some of the uses to which i…
"Why would anybody want to go? It's inarguably among the most prestigious collections of stage actors in the world and yet membership comes with no formal minimum participation requirement. …
"At its most comical, the Florida Man phenomenon encapsulates the wildness of both America and the Internet. At its most salacious, it's a social-media update on the true-crime TV of America…
"Titled the Museum Frieder Burda, the space [in Baden-Baden] has displayed works by artists Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Richter, and Pablo Picasso. The museum was als…
"Six full-time employees out of 27 are having their positions eliminated as a result of a reorganization, said Dominic Willsdon, executive director of the ICA. … The non-collecting contemp…
The freelance orchestra, based at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs, was founded in 1983 and performed two to three dozen concerts a year. The announcement said that the orchestra would nee…
Designed by the Dutch architectural firm Mecanoo, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Kaohsiung is a city of nearly 3 million at the southern end of Taiwan) opened last fall and incl…
"In a comedy club, you can go nuts and go off and be funny, but you can't really get emotional, you know? The crowd is there to get in a rhythm of set-ups-and-jokes with you. They don't real…
Adam Gopnik: "The aphorism, in the course of history, can be taken as the epitome of the rational or the epitome of the irrational. It can be compressed and self-contained wisdom, or it can …
And here's the dynamic she means not to recreate: "In my whole 30 years in New York City Ballet, I rarely interacted with my boss except on the stage. I never knew where I was in his eyes or…
"What we have here, in other words, is the painful and all-too-familiar story of two creative dynamos in the same house, only one of whom was allowed to give full rein to their artistic impu…
"Last month, the ATHAR Project published an important report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open " on Facebook. … The report, 'Facebook's Black …
"Sony and HarperCollins Publishers said on Monday that they would finance a yet-to-be-named venture run by the executive, Elizabeth Gabler, who is considered Hollywood's foremost bridge to t…
"[The worrisome development is] the recent decision of leading Scottish newspapers and magazines to slash their coverage of the festival in half. Coupled with the dwindling size of the annua…
"His many management credits included production stage manager at Chicago Lyric Opera, where his colleagues included William Mason, later the company's general director; general manager of t…
"Its reputation as a hub where artists and creative types can rent inexpensively and still afford to do as they please is eroding. Certain neighborhoods, such as Kreuzberg, … [which] was p…
"The organization's independent auditor for the fiscal year that ended on Aug. 31, 2018, concluded that 'there is substantial uncertainty about the BSO's ability to continue [for one more ye…
"The 101m-high structure, in the Dahshur royal necropolis, just south of Cairo, is one of two built for Sneferu, the pharaoh who founded the Fourth Dynasty. Tourists will be allowed inside t…
"In its four years of existence, Chineke!, Europe's first majority black and minority ethnic (BME) orchestra has transformed the attitude of the classical music business towards race, divers…