That would be John Heginbotham, a Mark Morris alumnus who now has his own company. The show is director Daniel Fish's revisionist Oklahoma! Gia Kourlas talks with the choreographer about wha…
"Modern dance companies dedicated to a single choreographer generally have audiences ready to invest in the artist " even when not successful " as much as the art," but it's not so simple fo…
"The public doesn't really know the extent of censorship in prison libraries, and it seems that prisons don't want us to know." But Christina Cerio took a stab at figuring it out. " Melville…
Theman who said that was in a rural hamlet in the mountains of New York state, and Sue Halpern had just been dragooned by the town board to set up a lending library with a total of $15,000. …
Peter Marks recounts such difficulties as having a seat mate (an aging comedy star, no less) unable to contain his enthusiasm, having another seat mate unable to contain his dinner, and havi…
The musical revue, known for its campy local humor and stupendously extravagant hats, will have its last performance on New Year's Eve " and the reason is not financial. " San Francisco Chro…
Joseph Young, a former assistant conductor at the Atlanta Symphony and currently Director of Ensembles at the Peabody Institute, was called in as a last-minute substitute for a Berkeley Symp…
What's a #SlatePitch? In keeping with the site's original ambition to be anti-conventional wisdom, Slate has published an essay by writer and translator Bérengère Viennot (she's the one wh…
Huge pledges from superrich individuals and multinational corporations such as LVMH, L'Oreal, and (subsequent to this story's publication) Disney have been pouring in since news of the confl…
"A fire alarm first wailed inside the Notre Dame Cathedral at 6:20 p.m. Monday, but for 23 critical minutes cathedral staff searched for a blaze, unable to find the cause. It wasn't until a …
Yes, it's a strange bit of synchronicity. Thank heaven (as it were), the damage at Al-Aqsa is minor and the fire was put out in seven minutes. " ArchDaily
On a frigid December day in 1857, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (now the site of the Hermitage museum) caught fire; in less than two days, the building was completely gutted. As with N…
The daring stage director Milo Rau and his Belgian theater comany have adapted the Aeschylus trilogy to the Iraqi city that was occupied and devastated by, then liberated from, ISIS. Said on…
The legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament gives the reason for the ban as "the negative effects caused by some electronic games on the health, culture, and security of Iraqi society, in…
Tita Anntares writes about two recent productions " one depicting a U.S. immigrant's deportation hearings, another the monologue of the ghost of a young Black Panther shot by Chicago police …
The Met is presenting a free "informal program" about Notre-Dame this coming Monday, but the list of speakers seems unusually high-powered for an informal educational event on a weekday afte…
The two great African-American writers happened to run into each other on the street in Mobile, Alabama on a summer day in 1927, and she invited him to ride along with her to Tuskegee and be…
The St. Petersburg museum will add a 20,000-square-foot extension to house educational and community events and elaborate digital facilities, including virtual reality tech along the lines b…
A young shoe salesman from Delaware, who now has no idea what he was thinking at the time, did the deed at an Ugly Sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 2017. He was tri…
"A district court in Zurich upheld Israeli verdicts in the case last week, ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city could be opened and their contents shipped to Israel's Nat…
"The two unknown poems were found tucked underneath a photo of a young Du Maurier in a swimming costume standing on rocks, which was part of an archive of more than 40 years of correspondenc…
"Participating employers" " those with more than 250 employees, among them Ambassador Theatre Group and Delmont Mackintosh as well as the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the RSC …
Karole Armitage: "Merce did not talk to anyone, ever. He gave no corrections, no communication." Michael Cole: "He never admonished anybody. … We rehearsed completely in silence." Valda Se…
At the Youth America Grand Prix, says founder/artistic director Larissa Saveliev, "You don't have to win to get the prize. The real prizes are the scholarships. And for those, you just have …
So far, it appears that almost all of the major art objects and relics in the cathedral were saved, thanks to a human chain formed during the fire; most will be taken to the Louvre for conse…