In the 18th-century source, a novel by the Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut was an archetypal siren, luring a helpless young nobleman to his doom; later operatic adaptations may have had more s…
That fashion statement, writes Chris Jones, was the breathing tube and oxygen device that Terrence McNally wore onstage as he accepted his lifetime achievement Tony, and his speech " as both…
A Q&A with Chidi and Chika Nwaogu, twin brothers from Nigeria and the creators and chiefs of Publiseer. As Porter Anderson observes,"What's at issue … is the question of where and how …
Bernstein's December 1989 concert performances and recording were his answer to the surprisingly numerous Candide-ologists trying to figure out why a show with such sparkling music had never…
The playwright and director René Pollesch will take the reins at one of Germany's most important theaters in 2021. He succeeds Chris Dercon, formerly the director of London's Tate Modern ar…
Emily Ruskovich's Idaho has won the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award, for which books are nominated by libraries around the world. She said that when she first got news of …
"We laid out some pretty bold premises when The Commons Crit, a collaboration with Carolina Performing Arts' Commons festival, began. Here's how they look from the other side." " Indy Week (…
"This is an unusual boy, one who had, as he puts it, an 'overwhelming sense of Truth and Beauty' when at the age of ten he saw a periodic table in the Science Museum and became convinced tha…
Members of the Detroit-based collective Complex Movements discuss the connection between technology, performance, and social justice community organizing. " HowlRound
"In part, what's surprising is how long that process took: After all, the impulse to devour cool for profit is just capitalism. Like camp, which began as a private joy, an in-joke for outsid…
Giddens, a conservatory-trained operatic singer as well as a banjo player (she co-founded the string band Carolina Chocolate Drops) and composer, will prepare the libretto and compose the mu…
"The proposed union would be a part of IUOE Local 30, a group that also includes MoMA's union. … About 90 workers are involved in the potential Guggenheim union, including art handlers, in…
"Prison language, or language created by inmates while incarcerated, has a long and vivid history, and is likely as old as the modern prison itself." Says linguist Julie Colman, "It's quite …
"Dipsea is just one of a growing set of companies that are developing audio porn, targeting both people who don't get off on the extraordinarily explicit visuals provided on standard porn si…
"One reason, an obvious one, had to do with a close friend. As soon as the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins started to pass his name along to people in the theater world, … he found himse…
"No one living, of course, knows exactly what it sounded like, so scholars make their best educated guesses using internal evidence in the scant literature, secondary sources in other langua…
"Performers and stage managers working in the largest West End theatres will earn more than £700 a week as a minimum for the first time, as part of a new agreement that also includes meas…
"Under the new deal, three exhibitions of works drawn from Tate will be held at the Pudong Museum of Art. Tate will also assist with visitor services, operations, art handling, exhibition ma…
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Director Joe Thompson will be arraigned on June 19 for a July 2018 incident in which Thompson's car collided with a motorcycle whose driver was kille…
The 90-year-old conductor gives his farewell to his birthplace, Amsterdam, this weekend; following one August concert with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Lucerne, he will close out his 6…
"The death of [Mary] Max, 52, in the home she shared with Mr. Max, 81, comes in the midst of continued infighting in recent years regarding her husband's legacy. In May, The New York Times w…
"The banning of Rocketman, a biographic film about the life of musician Elton John, in Samoa has prompted criticism by human rights activists of 'selective morality' in a country where trans…
Some props haul their own metaphors on stage with them. " David Jays
The first two new productions in Garsington Opera's 30th anniversary season both feature wild parties with lots of on-stage dancing. " Paul Levy
David Lang's music is too pleasurable to be called experimental " it's the message, not the music, that may make some listeners uncomfortable. " David Patrick Stearns