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“[Deborah] Alma, who as the ‘Emergency Poet’ has prescribed poems as cures from the back of a 1970s ambulance for the last six years, is now setting up a permanent outlet i…
Greif staged both the original off-and-then-on-Broadway production (1996-2008) and a 2011-12 Off-Broadway revival, and he’s now directing Rent: Live, airing this Sunday on Fox. Diep Tr…
Jordana Pomeroy, director of the Frost Art Museum in Miami and a specialist in the history of women artists, says that some dealers went so far as to paint over a female artist’s signa…
“The plots are invented on the spot. Not like Hitchcock, where every scene that follows is connected with the final scene. In the action movie, it is more like the style of The Arabian…
“This is just the latest instance of a phenomenon you could call ‘event politics’ " that familiar flurry of knee-jerk responses sparked by a single image or clip that a lit…
NYCB principal Abi Stafford asked three members of the company’s newest batch of corps dancers " Mira Nadon, Kennard Henson, and Gabriella Domini " what they wanted to know, then got a…
“Mr. de Groat was a significant presence on the New York downtown dance scene and in Paris in the 1970s and '80s. Introduced to audiences through his work with [Robert] Wilson, he late…
The project for a new building for the museum, first launched in 2008, has been revived from the Chan family, prominent Vancouver philanthropists who gave the anchor donation for what’…
“West End theatres enjoyed record box office takings of £766 million in 2018, up 8.6% compared with the previous year. … West End theatres also had record audience attendances of …
“The agencies, which the Trump administration’s first two budgets tried to eliminate, will use remaining FY18 administrative funds to reopen [on Monday] for up to four weeks, off…
Associate curators, art handlers, and staff at the front desk, gift shop, and museum bookstore will now be represented by the United Auto Workers. The vote was 38 to 8. " The New York Times
“In 2009, with help from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, the [Getty Conservation Institute] brought in a team of environmental engineers, architects and designers to improve the …
“Many critics feel that [these operas] glorify the repugnant behavior and patriarchal values they depict " and question their place in the repertoire”, writes Frankfurt-based vio…
“The musical Notre Dame de Paris” " aka “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” " has been a hit around the world since it opened in France in 1998. But, in London two years la…
“The [four-year] program offers apprenticeships in acquisitions departments at six university presses: the University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the …
Stasevska, a 33-year-old Kiev-born Finn who picked up her baton professionally only four years ago, was introduced to the orchestra by its Chief Conductor, fellow Finn Sakari Oramo. " The Gu…
Critic Wesley Morris nods to The Blind Side, Crash, and The Help, but he concentrates, of course, on current contender Green Book and its Oscar-winning predecessor Driving Miss Daisy, as wel…
As it happens, there’s a Hindu ritual called paalabhishekam in which worshipers pour milk over the statue of a deity. Overenthusiastic fans in the state of Tamil Nadu have started appl…
“Visitors to Mail Online who use Microsoft Edge can now see a statement asserting that ‘this website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability…
The Berlin Academy of Arts and the Bavarian State Ballet are co-producing a revival of the 1922 Triadic Ballet by Bauhaus polymath Oskar Schlemmer. " Artnet
Joel Rozen: “Closeting rarely happens in a vacuum; it requires a hostile culture of gay suppression and mechanisms like the popular media to thrive. Rather than simply acting like the …
One of the centerpieces of the company’s 2019 season was to have been Murphy’s full-length adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story “The Happy Prince.” But, due to what…
A U.S. federal court in Virginia ordered Theaterpalooza Community Theater Productions, Inc. to pay damages and and attorney fees to Music Theatre International, the major licensor for musica…
“The exhibition of 16th-century Italian master Tintoretto " one of the most anticipated art shows of the year " is set to open March 10, along with two complementary exhibits on Veneti…
“Almost from the moment his star began to rise, Singer, who is now 53, has been trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct. … We spent 12 months investigating various lawsuits and a…
