In 1955, she founded what would become the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in an old barn in Carlisle, about half an hour west of Harrisburg. "CPYB is [now] known as one of the most presti…
"Edinburgh Fringe theatremakers earned an average of just £392.15 for their work at the 2018 festival, covering a period of as much as 40 days, with fair-pay campaigners branding the figu…
Peter Shannon, who was artistic director of the orchestra for all of its ten years, announced last fall that he'd be leaving his post at the end of this season. But the Philharmonic board sa…
"Mr. Flummerfelt played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music. He prepared choruses for hundreds of concerts by the New York Philharmonic and a host of o…
"The long-in-gestation building, which has been designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and the British theater design company known as Charcoalblue, is expe…
"The announcement on Tuesday of architecture's highest award was seen by many as a long overdue honor for this 87-year-old architect, urban designer and theorist … Mr. Isozaki's more than …
At least they agree on something. "Female researchers, authors and firefighters in France could soon be known as chercheuses, autrices and sapeuses-pompières after the conservative Académi…
"The elite club of 40 'immortals,' as the members are known, that serves as the official guardian of the French language does not admit just anybody." Indeed, these days they don't admit any…
Last fall, the culture ministry of Italy's new populist government took exception to the Louvre's plan to assemble an unprecedented number of da Vinci's paintings for a major quincentennial …
"John Palfrey, an educator, author and scholar with a focus on digital technology … [who is] currently Head of School at the old-line Massachusetts prep school Phillips Academy Andover,  
Come From Away, a Broadway transfer about the Newfoundlanders who welcomed grounded airlines on 9/11, and director Marianne Elliott's revival of the Sondheim musical Company with the commitm…
"He was and remains … a mensch. He is also a very French mensch. He is a touchingly perfect representative " far more than the prickly Voltaire " of a certain French intellectual kind not …
What museum director would choose to sell from his institution "an important work completed at the apex of Rothko's artistic powers, … one of just 19 paintings completed by the artist in 1…
In Luchino Visconti's magnificent four-hour film Ludwig, the king is ingeniously cast as an embodiment of the Wagnerian pariah. Is the film a credible re-enactment of history? In writing abo…
Orchestral music's Mr. Maverick and the very avatar of Austro-German symphonic tradition are touring together, playing Mahler (on which they each have longstanding opinions and practices) an…
Peter Marks: "Sometimes, cheap theatrics are redeemed by a memorable line. In the desultorily expanded version of Twelve Angry Men that played out Wednesday on Capitol Hill with Michael Cohe…
"In what seems to be a growing trend, regional companies are coming together to share stages and expand their audiences. These team-ups often go beyond split bills, with companies swapping c…
Said the 62-year-old Michael Mael, "I'm at the age where I need some balance. The ballet needs someone who is all in. Somebody who is at every single performance and every single donor event…
Strange as it may seem today, there was a point at which the network was very skeptical of Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency. Now Fox News personalities appear with Trump at politic…
"The anti-vax documentaries had been available in the U.S. as part of Prime Video but as of Friday afternoon were not available to stream. … The move came just hours after U.S. Rep. Adam S…
The move is part of the museum's 50th anniversary "Open House" inclusivity initiative, which also includes "the creation of a diversity-focused curatorial fellowship (the first recipient is …
The Tony-winning actress was set to co-star alongside Nathan Lane in Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. (The lead roles are servants who have to haul away the dead bodies and clean up…
The Swedish Academy has confirmed that a second prize will be awarded this fall to make up for the postponement caused by last year's messy scandal. (This had been announced at the time, but…
"The elderly man was traveling from Kassel to Düsseldorf on February 15 when he switched trains at the city of Hamm and forgot to bring his precious cargo with him." The ten-inch-tall jug, …
"Alexander Pereira, the Austrian chief executive and artistic director credited with bringing in more sponsors and creating a healthier balance sheet since his appointment in 2014, said the …