"[He] became a celebrated reporter, columnist and the top editor of The New York Post and The Daily News; a foreign correspondent for The Post and The Saturday Evening Post; and a writer for…
João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim were just two of many Brazilian musicians who considered pianist-singer-composer Johnny Alf a genius and his "Rapaz de Bem" the first bossa nova …
"The game involves some role playing. If you use only the Grammar cards, the dealer is called the Copy Chief, as in 'The Copy Chief shuffles the fifty Grammar cards.' If you mix in the Style…
Says the co-director of one London theatrical PR firm, "At the end of the day, we are not the people putting on the shows, but we make a crucial contribution. What we do is bespoke, skilled …
Never mind the enormous catalogue of their incompatibilities and the exhausting ups-and-downs of their relationship. "The Muppeteers' obsession with Piggy and Kermit has come at the expense …
"Every August for the past five years, Beach Sessions Dance Series has been an exciting fixture on the sands of Rockaway Beach in Queens. The festival brings contemporary-dance luminaries to…
"In conjunction with an app, the C-Face Smart mask can transcribe dictation, amplify the wearer's voice, and translate speech … between Japanese and Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian…
Gia Kourlas: "It didn't bode well that the first live dance I was going to see since mid-March was one I had seen many times before. Sunshine, a Larry Keigwin war horse set to the Bill Withe…
In 1761, at roughly age 7, the girl who would become Phillis Wheatley was taken from Africa to Boston and sold to the wife of a local merchant who educated her. Within a dozen years, she had…
Miraculously, the enormous instrument suffered no structural damage from the April 15, 2019 fire at the medieval Paris cathedral. But the 8,000 pipes, five keyboards, and intricate mechanism…
"This time, the victim was a historic plaster model by the Italian artist Antonio Canova (1757"1822). On July 31, a misguided Austrian tourist snapped the toes off the Neoclassical sculpture…
Among the many important titles he midwifed over a long career at Dial, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Little Brown were James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and The Fire Next Time, Alvi…
"Indoor English venues were scheduled to open on 1 August with social distancing measures in place for audiences and performers " emulating the pilot run performed at The London Palladium la…
"Job losses at theatres across the UK have jumped from 3,000 to 5,000 in less than a month, according to figures from the Bectu trade union. The job losses include redundancies of permanent …
From woodblock printing (3rd century) to movable type (11th century " sorry, Gutenberg) to stereotyping (in the original sense; ca. 1700) to paperbacks (ca. 1845) to hot-metal typesetting (c…
Alexis Soloski: "As an undergraduate 20 years ago, I had majored in theater and back then, our training was exclusively and incontrovertibly face to face. Good acting happened in the moment,…
Jason Farago: "Tokyo 2020, its name unchanged, will now take place in July 2021 if it takes place at all. Yet all around the Japanese capital is the legacy of another Olympics: the 1964 Summ…
Wesley Morris: "What would an American version be? Court, theater, a hearing, a telethon, therapy, TV, church, Ken Burns, Anna Deavere Smith? Each perhaps " and more. Who would make it? I do…
No, Dostoevsky's novel is only the second-most popular title among inmates there; Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is in the top spot, with Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo at number thr…
Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires was all set to go with a production of playwright David Cale's one-man play Harry Clarke " the union had given the go-ahead, and the theater had ha…
"Venues newly allowed to reopen to customers include movie theaters, auditoriums, stadiums and performing arts centers. Those represent the last of the business restrictions not rolled back …
"Because he was not a celebrity editor, he was not particularly well known outside the publishing universe. But let us assure you, because we saw it firsthand: There was nobody quite like hi…
In a statement that also announced the cancellation of all remaining 2020 performances (including The Nutcracker), the company revealed that Michael Pastreich is departing after 14 months. H…
"During my senior year of undergrad, my voice teacher complimented me on my final Mainstage role by saying: 'You did great! And you don't even look African-American on stage!'""[The language…
Shirley Verrett: "Maestro Stokowski called. He was embarrassed, but said that it would not be possible for me to sing with the Houston Symphony because the symphony board did not want to use…