Netflix has already done small-screen versions of Springsteen on Broadway and American Son, and they're now working on feature versions of Broadway's (recent) The Boys in the Band and (curre…
That would be the New England theatre troupe, not the Paris bookstore. "Every year since 1982, Shakespeare & Company has sent young performers on the road from early winter through late …
"The 2019-20 season will be Alan Gilbert's first with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg. On paper, a German radio orchestra, with the system's long tradition of advocacy for new r…
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 33, begins his 10-weeks-a-year, five-year contract term at the start of the 2021-22 season. He is also chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony (which is the officia…
"Georgia's recent passage of a highly restrictive abortion law has turned its once cozy relationship with Tinsel Town into a fraught one, and put Hollywood's liberal politics on a collision …
The gift from the Knight Foundation will be used to expand NewsHour's Canvas program online and over the air. " ARTnews
The "culprit" was Aslan Sagutdinov, a blogger in the city of Uralsk. In a video taken of his arrest, he said, "I want to show that the idiocy in our country has gotten so strong that the pol…
A federal court in Sydney ordered that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. must pay the Oscar winner A$1.98 million (US$1.36 million) compensation for economic loss on top of the A$850,000 (US$584,0…
The objects are called tabots, they're plaques meant to respresent the Ark of the Covenant, and their presence is what makes an Ethiopian church a sacred space. The British Museum has 11 of …
Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu is casting works to be displayed in the empty niches this fall, while Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman is creating large-scale site-specific paintings f…
"[She] first gained acclaim in the 1970s, when she appeared in New York nightclubs as a bluesy singer with a powerful voice and presence. She dropped out of show business for a decade before…
Yes, that billboard in London was a piece of viral marketing. One day after it set social media atwitter (ahem), HarperCollins revealed that it will release The Mirror and the Light in March…
Rifftides reader Orsolya Bene writes, "Listening to jazz on the radio after finishing chores. "North Of The Sunset," by Thelonious Monk was just playing. Now, it's the Denny Zeitlin trio. Th…
It was the Web, and especially V Kontakte (Russia's Facebook), that made it possible, and, as always in such cases, the old fogeys in charge didn't catch on until it was too late to stop or …
Director Paula Garfield, mother of two deaf children and deaf herself, created Horrible Histories: Dreadful Deaf "just as much for hearing parents as for their deaf children. It's a chance f…
"With her latest work, Fame Notions, [choreographer Gillian Walsh] seeks to understand what she calls the 'fundamentally pessimistic or alienating pursuit' of being a dancer." Walsh explains…
"A mechanical engineer at the University of Versailles has modelled the engineering of the structure and shown that the walls of Nôtre-Dame could collapse under the pressure of wind speed…
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis did some research to find out what could get new people in the door " and, just as importantly, what doesn't work. " American Theatre
"When the children's television show Arthur made headlines last week for an episode in which the beloved teacher Mr. Ratburn marries his male aardvark partner, Alabama viewers saw only a rer…
"Ever worry about getting paid, getting laid or finding love? Does social anxiety prickle your palms? Do you despair of a world slipping its moorings? Restoration drama may speak to you." Da…
The obvious explanation would be that the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre is upcoming (June 4). "When Wikipedia's official account tweeted that the reasons for the total bl…
"For an artwork that's making strides around the world, On Display places remarkable value on motionlessness. 'It's a lot of stillness,' creator-choreographer Heidi Latsky says of the piece,…
"It's weird to play a character who lived, more weird if he's still alive " because he's producing more information every day " and extraordinarily rare that he is behind the camera saying, …
And "deepest" doesn't mean Tashkent, Samarkand, or the other Silk Road cities visited by tourists; this is in far-off Nukus, near the now-dead Aral Sea. Yet this distance from Soviet power c…
"One of the first high-profile Kenyans to openly declare he was gay, … he won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the world for his satirical essay 'How t…