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Bill Mays Trio Live At COTAPianist Mays recently reassembled his trio for a concert and their first CD release in more than ten years. Mays, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson came …
Matt Trueman meets the women of the company Clean Break and playwright Luke Barnes, who talk about their scripts and the work they produce both inside and outside prisons. " The Guardian
"Jonathan Stafford, 38, who has been running the company for more than a year on an interim basis, will become the new artistic director of City Ballet as well as its affiliated academy, the…
"[He] was a musical polymath who began composing for Hollywood at 16 and won a quartet of Oscars, and had additional careers as a jazz piano phenomenon and major symphonic conductor. All the…
Few English-speakers are aware that much of ancient Jewish scripture is written in sophisticated verse, full of wordplay and soundplay. Translators have concentrated on the meaning of the wo…
"[His] criticism appeared regularly in publications like DownBeat and JazzTimes. He wrote two books about bebop, the challenging form of modern jazz that emerged in the 1940s. And, along wit…
People seem to devour articles, books, and documentaries about the likes of the Fyre Festival and Theranos; Bernie Madoff and Enron are household names. "Reminding ourselves that sometimes l…
Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, J.J. Abrams and their fellows are now getting nine-figure production deals, with next-rung creators like Mindy Kaling and Seth MacFarlane landing eight figures. W…
"Money is a factor. But even a few extra zeroes wouldn't necessarily change the creative process for concert work, where priorities tend to revolve around giving an idea its fullest expressi…
Among his most famous and historic programs were the 1962 Tour of the White House with Jackie Kennedy; Hunger in America (1968), which shocked the public and led to changes in federal policy…
"One installation in the show [at Mary Baldwin University] included a bathroom sink with air fresheners " shaped like the silhouettes of statues of Confederate leaders " hanging from it. A m…
"[The $30 million project] will erect three new buildings to support the chapel's ongoing social justice programming and is replacing the building's ceiling apparatus with a new skylight and…
"The Sarasota Orchestra, which has kept its supporters guessing for years about the possible location of a new concert hall, made a pitch to Sarasota city commissioners Tuesday night to buil…
In January, the ever-troubled ballet star caused another stir with some offensive (and incoherent) remarks on Facebook, and he was promptly let go from a guest spot with the Paris Opera Ball…
"Silicon Valley billionaire, philanthropist and author Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman's charitable foundation, … Crankstart, has committed to an initial five-year exclusive fun…
"The event, the first of its kind held by the NT, will take place on April 15 in London, and is aimed at 'professional actors who identify as transgender, trans*, genderqueer, non-binary, ge…
The Arts Council of Ireland released details of its 2019 grants two weeks ago, and Wexford was missing from the list with no explanation or target date for a decision. "When this kind of iss…
"Devotion, by the Taiwanese indie developer Red Candle Games, was released on 19 February and was initially popular among horror enthusiasts. However, the discovery of a number of hidden jok…
In addition to performing free concerts for every elementary school student in the city's public school system every year, the orchestra has a Diversity Council (created in 2016) that provid…
The orchestra's Conducting Freeman Fellowship program, overseen by music director Mei-Ann Chen and part of its larger Project Inclusion, brings two conducting fellows and two auditors to the…
Opera America's IDEA Opera Grant Program (that stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) "will award grants to teams of composers and librettists of color to support and promote th…
"With IN UNISON Chorus, orchestra leaders made an effort [beginning] in 1994 to … welcome more African-Americans into the predominantly white world of European classical music. … Its mem…
"This first cycle of funding, totaling $15,000, will go to Lexington Children's Theatre, Target Margin Theater, and The TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment). The grants, funded by …
"The New York Community Trust and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation have established a fund to support accessible tickets at 12 New York City theatres. The one-year grants will gift each of th…
It's a niche market, to be sure, and one that major auction houses and dealers stay far away from. But there's enough demand to make it worthwhile for a few to sell Hitler's handiwork " or t…
