"In Latin America, it's said that Chile produces poets, Argentina produces short story writers, Mexico produces novelists, and Uruguay produces 'los raros' " the strange ones." And, writes h…
"Artistic director Ãngel Corella has … add[ed] demi-soloist and first soloist levels to the mix. PAB now joins a handful of other U.S. companies, including Miami City Ballet, Houston Ba…
"Imagine Macbeth, but with a five-person cast that includes an inebriated actor in the title role. Add a prop dildo, an interpretive dance break and the president's rousing speech from Indep…
"Bulldozers are already scraping clear millions of tonnes of earth in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town about 3,800 metres above sea level that is the gateway to the Sacred Valley." Says on…
Basically, as one executive put it, "there are two Philadelphia brands the Chinese respect " the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the Philadelphia Orchestra." Classical music …
"Over the years, rumors of possible successors have surfaced and vanished, as [the now-98-year-old] Ms. Alonso, at least partially blind since the 1940s, talked of living to 200. But her gri…
Sold for $91.1 million, "Rabbit, a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of [Christie's] spring sale and overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hoc…
"In a bankruptcy filing on Tuesday, lawyers for the studio … said it was burning through what little cash it had left. … The Weinstein Company has been negotiating for more than a year w…
Brandon Keith Brown took up his position as conductor of the Brown University Orchestra in September of 2017; within six weeks, and shortly before his first scheduled concert leading the gro…
"A former mayor of Olomouc, [minister AntonÃn] StanÄ›k made headlines several weeks back when he fired the director of the National Gallery in Prague, Jiřà Fajt, and the head of…
"A prolific actress who appeared in plays, television series and more than 80 films, … she was among Japan's earliest on-screen sex symbols, known for playing elegant and assertive princes…
"Given the gravity of recent events," said the CEO of the ITV network in a statement, "we have decided to end production of The Jeremy Kyle Show." The grave recent event was the death of a 6…
In 2006, weary of the endless political battles over the NEA and worried about the cuts to its funding, the Ford, Prudential, Rockefeller, and Rasmuson Foundations joined forces to create a …
Journalist and playwright Farai Mabeza gives a survey of the sector and the ways its artists have been opening windows on the society's social and political problems despite a severe lack of…
Two recent theater pieces take a hard look at one of the cultural rootstocks of the United States. " David Patrick Stearns
Among the many anecdotes in Christine Smallwood's profile: "She never dabbled in the drugs and alcohol that were omnipresent on film sets. Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols once pulled her aside …
"There is a line in The Scarlet Letter: 'She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.' I hadn't known the weight of transposing myself into other people's bodies until I no long…
Critic Alex Rosenfeld writes about A Fierce Kind of Love, a devised play about the intellectual disability rights movement, and how everything about the production, from the integration of p…
"Camp, an agent of nonsense, resists this exercise. Or actually, like a child, kind of ignores it and wanders elsewhere." J. Bryan Lowder takes it as a basic principle that camp is, or ought…
Just as the lights were going down at the State Theatre in Melbourne for the start of Opera Australia's Rigoletto, George Dreyfus stood up and started yelling through a megaphone about the f…
"Ward Stare, who in 2014 at age 32 became the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's youngest-ever music director following one of its most turbulent periods, will leave the job at the end of th…
As if there weren't enough issues with the damn thing already. As Christopher Knight writes, you could hang paintings on wires coming down from a high rail. (Bad idea in an earthquake zone.)…
A new biography by Benjamin Moser argues, citing previously unreleased correspondence as well as textual analysis, that Philip Rieff's Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, which launched his aca…
Artist Christoph Büchel managed to get possession of the actual fishing boat in which hundreds of migrants drowned while trying to get from Libya to Italy in 2015 " and he entered it as is,…
He had had a long and successful career as a character dancer at the Bolshoi (he danced for Stalin) when he up and left in 1975; the next year, he turned up at Balanchine's School of America…