Research from Arts Council England shows that, in 2016, the arts sector added £10.8 billion to the UK economy, more than farming did. (A similar result in the US was reported last month.)…
In a newly relevant article brought back from the archives, Jerome Bernard explains that this question has been argued over ever since France legally separated church and state in 1905 " and…
Pavel Lungin's Leaving Afghanistan (Russian title Bratstvo, meaning Brotherhood), based on the real-life experience of an officer who went on to become the head of the FSB (the successor to …
"One of a very few women in television's executive ranks at the time, [she] oversaw CBS Playhouse in the late 1960s and the PBS series Visions in the 1970s, … offer[ing] writers a platform…
The American theatre director, now 42, had never run an organization when he took the helm at the then-troubled ENO in 2016. Things appear to have stabilized at the company financially and a…
Wait, what? Yes, a new work in the traditional Cantonese opera format shows a young Donald Trump meeting the Chairman on a trip to China in 1972. The hope is that this piece, titled Trump on…
"The planned 2016 production Nerds has become one of the biggest debacles in New York theater history, spawning a $6 million lawsuit and leaving at least one castmember feeling 'stranded' by…
On March 8, I went to the WoCo Fest, a festival of music by women, and was so radiated with joy that I cancelled plans I had for the next night, and went back again. What made WoCo Fest so j…
It's a small doll, nothing fancy, fashioned in a courtroom to pass the long hours between denunciations. The young servant girl Mary Warren brings it home to the Proctors, gives it to the mi…
I was twenty-two when I met Harry Jenks, for many years the ballpark organist for the Kansas City Royals and the first great jazz musician to enter my life. He taught me more than any of my …
"Today, Jewish funders' focus is primarily on Jewish engagement " whether through Birthright Israel or the study of Jewish texts" " and donations for Jewish arts groups are simply drying up.…
"To settle a legal dispute, the nonprofit foundation that supported public television in Oklahoma for more than three decades is dissolving. The [Oklahoma Educational Television Authority] F…
When word got around last week that a private group was renting the AMNH for an evening honoring Jair Bolsonaro, who has been making aggressive plans to open the Amazon rainforest for loggin…
"The last strike, in 2012, was settled in two days, and the 1992 work action, in 15 days. Why is this one taking so long? Talks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association management, musici…
"Netflix will have passed the 150 million global subscriber mark when it reports its latest results this week … About 80% of new subscribers come from markets outside the US." " The Guardi…
Yes, it's true: none of the dancers in the Night of 100 Solos for the Cunningham centennial were ever members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Gia Kourlas reports on how the performers…
"One night. Three cities. Seventy-five dancers. And three unique sets of 100 solos, all choreographed by Merce Cunningham." And if you can't be in London, New York, or Los Angeles to watch i…
The Palace of Westminster is a crumbling fire trap, warn MPs and building maintenance professionals, and fire patrols on the premises round the clock are the only reason the place hasn't bur…
As President Macron said, "The worst has been avoided" " meaning that, at least, the walls and the twin front towers didn't collapse and there were no deaths. Here's the current info. " The …
Rachel Donadio: "I was standing in a hushed, pained throng along the Quai d'Orléans of the Ile Saint-Louis facing the back of the basilica, and when I watched the spire fall, I gasped and c…
"She could get a laugh on literally every line you gave her," remembered Raymond's creator. "I've never seen anything like it." She received three Emmy nominations for her work on that serie…
"The Pulitzer jury described the winning piece as a 'bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the …
And Vox's Constance Grady says the play "made me the most uncomfortable I have ever been inside a theater. In a good way." " Vox
The Pulitzer board gave the late singer a Special Citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades." She is the first individual woman to rec…
The Post's nonfiction book critic was honored "for his ambitious and innovative essays that range across politics, presidential history, immigrant memories, national security reporting and f…