"The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals … says that additional evidence, including expert testimony, is needed to weigh similarities between the Academy Award-winning film and a play by the…
One might say that they're conflicted. Barnes & Noble says that The Room Where It Happened is already at the top of its bestsellers list. "In contrast, a survey of participants in PW's B…
"The U.K. public broadcaster is also putting into place a mandatory 20-percent diverse-talent target for all new commissions as it plans 'bold steps that will help make the BBC an instrument…
"Offenbach's 1858 Mesdames de la Halle is the first opera to be announced. It will be staged with 12 singers but no chorus, with 13 orchestral musicians instead of the usual 40, and with a l…
"When he painted it, Leonardo used an experimental technique using egg tempera and oil paint on plaster, so it began to fade soon after it was completed. Luckily, Leonardo's pupils created a…
First there was the world-famous fiasco "Beast Jesus," then there was St. George painted to look like a toy. Now an early copy of Murillo's Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been w…
"A journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in St. Elmo's Fire and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever …
"City Council has put money for the arts back into the administration's revised COVID-19-ravaged 2021 budget, including full restoration of the subsidy for the African American Museum in Phi…
"We all know it's safer to be outside and socially distanced, but that doesn't mean we are confined to an outdoor stage with chairs placed six feet apart." Here's a look at what companies in…
"With the usual model of theatregoing currently out of the question most everywhere, a handful of theatres have taken a cue from an old concept: medieval pageant wagons. Only this time, inst…
I knew that my contrarian suggestions about what to do with the controversial sculptures of Confederate leaders on Richmond's Monument Avenue would provoke some pushback, but I hoped for the…
A precocious talent who began playing in Texas jazz clubs at age 12 and continued to perform for most of his life, he spent many years teaching theory and composition at UMass-Amherst and wr…
"Publishers can be accused of being slow to wake up to the internet, but they're not that slow, nor that likely to leave money on the table. But there is, it turns out, a long list of reason…
Following an internal dispute gone public that has led to nearly two-thirds of the organization's directors resigning (but the one whose incendiary comments were at the heart of the problem …
The improv company, which was co-founded in 1981 by Charna Halpern and the late Del Close and numbers Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Adam McKay among its alumni, has been closed to the public si…
"Effective July 6, administrative salaries will be cut between 2.5% and 12.5%. Calling the moves 'a very difficult decision,' president and CEO Kim Noltemy will take a 25% pay cut. Sixteen s…
Klaus Mäkelä, a 24-year-old Finnish cellist and conductor who is already at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic, starts in his Paris position in the fall of 2022. He succeeds Daniel Harding,…
The artist's Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) was taken by a robber from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam on March 30. Now a "proof of life" photo showing the painting betwe…
"Angela Gulbenkian, who married into one of Europe's most prominent art families and allegedly leveraged their name to conduct fraudulent art deals, has been arrested in Portugal. The jet-se…
It's a difficult decision to make: as Joffrey CEO Greg Cameron said, "The loss of The Nutcracker alone " more than half of the Joffrey's annual earned revenue " compounds a financial crisis …
"If already not performing, … 50% of U.K. clients are planning a return to the stage in January 2021. Only 25% expect to be performing pantos in December 2020. In contrast, 63% of U.S. cli…
Less than a week after management negotiated the first contract with newly-unionized employees, WBUR leaders announced a reorganization, which they said was made necessary by the COVID-relat…
The company announced plans for a season with the overall title "Leap of Faith," acknowledging that everything depends on the state of the COVID epidemic and what San Francisco authorities w…
"Coming on the heels of similar announcements from the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, the decisions make clear that there will be few, if any, large-scale performances bef…
"Although psychologists have long recognized the benefits of art therapy, … few American museums have devoted resources toward creating programs. But the demands of a grief-stricken public…