"A sprawling, 44-day anniversary program has been mostly postponed until next year. It has been replaced with a reduced, 30-day schedule, through Aug. 30, of concerts, plays and two (instead…
Their names were Sister Föben, Sister Katura, and Sister Hanna, and they were members of the Ephrata Cloister, a radical commune of Pennsylvania Dutch Evangelicals in the mid-1700s. Bariton…
With the ongoing COVID epidemic making travel to its New Hampshire campus impractical at best, the no-longer-a-colony has invited this summer's eight fellows to a four-week virtual residency…
"William Carden, who has been the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theatre since 2007, will step down from his position. A member of EST since 1978, Carden will continue w…
"Mr. Schonfeld, who had been expelled from Harvard Law School for gambling, was nothing if not a risk taker. Early in his career he produced newsreels shown in movie theaters, and by the mid…
Kaatsbaan, a Hudson River-side farm that has been offering retreats and workshops for dancers for 30 years, is presenting public performances for the first time this year. (Thanks to COVID, …
"Education Minister Dan Tehan said the government wanted to 'incentivise students to make more job-relevant choices'. The next wave of graduates would have to power the post-Covid economic r…
Director and producer Oren Moverman: "The idea of independent financing, putting together films that have no home, taking them to festivals, trying to sell them " they're going to have to ta…
"A group of more than 80 science fiction and fantasy authors are protesting at the possibility of one of the genres' biggest conventions being held in [Jeddah] in 2022, saying that 'the Saud…
The latest COVID-19 Sector Benchmark Insight Report, released by TRG Arts and data specialists Purple Seven, "includes data from 105 nonprofit organizations of all scales in the U.S., Canada…
San Diego's Mainly Mozart got together an eight-member chamber group headed by L.A. Phil concertmaster Martin Chalifour to play octets by Mozart and Mendelssohn in the parking lot of a SoCal…
"The removal of a pair of concrete murals by Pablo Picasso was completed Tuesday from a government building in the Norwegian capital of Oslo whose demolition was under way." (That building, …
"Those second looks have turned up several shared themes. One is a new skepticism regarding the relationship that has developed between the epic and prevailing ideas about male heroism. 'A l…
"In both the manifold building blocks of his works and their titles " Ba-O-Ba, Ju-Ju, Palm Saw Tooth Blatt, Bison Bop " Mr. Sonnier came off at times as an irreverent sensualist alongside pe…
"Every day we read about a new proposed seating plan or air-filtering system being trialled in an Edwardian playhouse to enable safe, socially distanced theatre in a building designed for th…
"The sudden rise of calls for color-conscious casting comes after years of criticism about whitewashed roles. But while many Black voice actors are glad to see white actors leaving roles whe…
The pressure on ballerinas to maintain extremely thin figures is notorious for leading to eating disorders. The Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, England's second city, is meeting this p…
Marina Harss: "When the CompañÃa Nacional de Danza took the stage at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in southern Spain on Wednesday, it was in many ways like…
"Of the total amount, the government has currently released £880 million ($1.14 billion), which has been split into two funding rounds. The first round of £622 million ($805.3 million)…
The study, conducted by outside consultants at the board's request after two major scandals broke earlier this year, "found problems and deficiencies at all levels of the hierarchy " from th…
"After analysing data from 54 studies conducted on 6,984 participants between 1986 and 2019, [researchers] found music training was ineffective at enhancing cognitive or academic skills, reg…
"The ubiquitous app built on short video clips seems frivolous at first, with its lip-synching, dance challenges and goofball celebrities. But this is how a rising generation communicates ac…
The company's annual fall festival, much praised ever since its 2017 debut, is off this year; most plans for next season, including Jennifer Higdon's latest opera and Sondra Radvanovsky's ro…
"Inside a cavernous steel hut in the middle of Glasgow's Springburn Park, the sweeping arc of keyboards, lids and carved panels has been taking shape … Using mainly upright instruments, wi…
"The 'Theophrastan character' is not often mentioned today, perhaps because it is so little known as a genre. Yet for centuries this was what 'character' meant in literature. A list of famil…