"Very often, they are simple statements of fact, with minimal humorous adornment. James Corden mentions that Google will soon allow you to store your driver's license on your phone. 'You hav…
Writer Amanda Petrusich recounts the story of trumpeter Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers, a band that played for officers and the Red Cross at Theresienstadt and, for a time, Auschwitz. Vo…
"No place on earth rivals Berlin for the volume and variety of opera on offer, from Georg Frideric Handel to Hans Werner Henze. The city has three world-class companies, which this season ha…
"The brilliant hard-boiled lyricism of Sandy Grady, in 1964, as he watches a crowd of Phillies fans after a home loss: 'They hit the sidewalk with tight mouths, like people who had seen a tr…
"They are the talk of the theater world: a generation of black playwrights whose fiercely political and formally inventive works are challenging audiences, critics and the culture at large t…
"I can't remember a more electrifying run of new, innovative plays during my 25-year tenure as a New York theater critic than the heady spate of works by African-American playwrights that ha…
Wesley Morris: "Occasionally, a play ends and nobody really knows what to do, because it just took an audience to outer space, to the center of the earth, to this new electric zone that know…
"Oftentimes, the most outrageous of plot twists are what make that happen," say Ben Brantley and Jesse Green. " The New York Times
"Under Iowa's law, inmates no longer have access to mainstream publications such as National Geographic, says the lawyer Nathan Mundy, who represents Michael Lindgren, a tattoo artist challe…
Organizations such as Artists of Color Alliance, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Charlotte Street Foundation, KC StartUp Village and Foundation, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance are helping …
"In deciding to advocate for these two dancers, AGMA has not only sided with alleged offenders in multiple serious cases of degradation and sexual harassment, but has also sent a clear messa…
"The long-running row between the Cannes film festival and Netflix has taken an unexpected turn as the Directors' Fortnight, one of the key strands of the festival that runs in parallel to t…
"[She] was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2004, forcing her to undergo two emergency lung transplants needed to save her life. Despite her illness Tillemann-Dick pursued a renowned…
"Megastar Fan Bingbing has appeared in public for the first time in almost a year, after a mysterious disappearance from the public eye believed to be linked to charges of tax evasion. [She]…
According to director Richard Armstrong, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, part of the emirate's Saadiyat Island complex of museums, is expected to open in 2022. "The Frank Gehry-designed museum, wh…
"Lebanese author Hoda Barakat has won the $50,000 (£39,000) International prize for Arabic fiction (IPAF) for her novel, The Night Mail, which tells the stories of people in exile through…
While he tended to keep his performing career fairly close to home (especially in his later years), Demus became widely known through his more than 100 recordings. He's especially remembered…
"Dancers will forego eating to take classes," says Yvonne Chow. So, once a month, DanceMart, operated by H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory in New York City, will cook and serve a dinner, t…
A Grammy award winner, Samuels was best known for more than three decades as a member of the crossover jazz-fusion band Spyro Gyra. " Doug Ramsey
Two short excerpts taken from Char's WWII writings. One concerns a walnut tree; the other speaks about the phantoms of our "empirical souls." Why post them? And why now? Read them. " Jan Her…
"Hnath is a master of Socratic dialogue … In a Hnath play, you repeatedly find yourself agreeing with a pointed speech, then agreeing with its rebuttal. … Many playwrights promote the be…
"National Disability Theatre has announced a partnership with La Jolla Playhouse and Goodman Theatre to commission two new works written, directed, and designed by artists with disabilities …
"In the current political environment, name-checking the writing of James Joyce may not seem like the canniest move. It's a dog whistle, meant to appeal to refined impulses, to élite rather…
The debate has arisen a lot over the past few years: BP, the Koch brothers, the Sacklers, that board member at the Whitney, Notre-Dame. Bob Garfield talks about the issue with Anand Giridhar…
If it had happened in a radio or television studio, it might have gone well. But having an audience turns out to have been a bad idea. (And some ill-advised moves by either Gay or her manage…