In May, The Song Company suddenly announced that it was ceasing business and beginning the bankruptcy process called in Australia Voluntary Administration. Then, in early June, the ensemble'…
"The after-school program at the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet in South Miami … provides ballet, reading, math and etiquette classes along with access to mental health professionals. The prog…
There are Welsh-language songs and TV series racking up remarkable streaming numbers, the number of speakers has increased by 20% over the last decade, and people who've never been to Wales …
"An erotic revue conceived by the English theater critic Kenneth Tynan, Oh! Calcutta! took it all off at the Eden Theater, a former pornographic cinema that had been renovated by the show's …
"The traditional historical photo of [Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis] shows a man whose skin is nearly as light as his crisp white dress shirt. … Machado was known to be the descendant of …
"Reich was a popular Yale University professor whose students included both Bill and Hillary Clinton and a respected legal scholar when a 39,000-word excerpt from The Greening of America ran…
"Theatre collective" may seem a surprising way to describe the Comédie-Française (est. 1680), but it's accurate: the company is owned and controlled by its actors and other members. Repo…
He told Italy's Corriere della sera, "Men must get up and rediscover the force to assume responsibility, whether they are gay or straight, and not become lazy. If women start to think that t…
"ITV will no longer commission comedy shows with all-male writers' rooms, the broadcaster's head of comedy has said. Saskia Schuster said she realised last year that 'an awful lot of my come…
"Pressure had been mounting against the director, Peter Schäfer, over what critics said was an inappropriately political stance for the head of a cultural institution tasked with explaining…
"Sunday's decision by the orchestra's board of trustees locking out the players was not unexpected. Despite the picketers carrying signs reading 'I Make Less Than I Did a Decade Ago,' the le…
"Following a months-long courting process that included multiple suitors, WarnerMedia is in final negotiations for a new partnership with [Abrams's company,] Bad Robot, sources say. … Abra…
Anne Midgette: "Preparing young musicians for a career in music looks different now than it did in 1988, when NOI began. A big part of instrumentalists' training has always been learning to …
"Ms. Hunnewell joined the magazine as an editorial intern in the late-1980s, when it was run out of an 8-by-14-foot office in the Upper East Side brownstone of its co-founder and editor Geor…
A letter from eight of the 13 departing board members noted that two leading candidates for CEO of the theater withdrew after meeting with the president of Roosevelt University (which owns t…
"Most of the time, the remains of the monument are so poorly guarded that anyone can buy a ticket ($4 for foreigners, 60 cents for Afghans), walk in and do pretty much whatever he wants. And…
Inspired by a series that The New York Times describes as "Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words," I thought I'd try to sum up the wildly imp…
"The series centers on the trans women and gay men of color in New York's underground ballroom culture. … The ballroom scene arose from emptiness, dreamed into existence by young people, m…
"Cross-Sector Impact Grants is a new program of grantmaking, open to all art forms, for partnership projects taking place in one of South Arts' nine member states. For FY20, eligible project…
"So many times, our society is taught, 'Don't look, don't stare and don't ask " that would be rude. As an artist, I'm saying, 'Look at me now. Look at my body. Look how I move my chair.' I'm…
Dana Caspersen, William Forsythe's wife and a former member of his company, Ballett Frankfurt, "develops choreographic methods that let groups address differences in nonverbal ways. Many of …
"It tells us that wars are hell, but we knew that already. It tells us that most human beings are not so bad, except for the ones who are, and that's valuable information. It doesn't tell us…
You cast an actual Peruvian shaman, of course. And you get the entire rest of your cast do ayahuasca rituals furing the rehearsal period. Lyndsey Winship talks with Peruvian director-choreog…
David Thomson: "The shrewdest thing to say about Pauline Kael " beyond recognising that she was essential " is that she was kind of crazy. Yet determined to seem rational or in control." Kat…
"In a strange turn more than three decades after the meltdown, the exclusion area around Chernobyl is gaining a following as a tourism destination, apparently propelled by the popularity of …