His enormous body of prose fiction, poetry, stage dramas and screenplays (including the Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror) won him virtually every major Nordic literary prize other than the …
Katharina Wagner, the composer Richard Wagner's great-granddaughter, became co-director of the festival (alongside cousin Eva) in 2008 and sole director in 2015. Now, just short of age 42, K…
Last month, the festival canceled all April and May performances and laid off hundreds of workers. But with the repertory company's actors appearing in several productions and with audience …
"Opening safely is a very complex project that involves countless new procedures and equipment, all of which require extensive training," said a statement from company management. "This is s…
For 18 years, Gersten was second-in-command to Joe Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater (where his interventions twice saved Papp's and the company's future), and he spen…
"Elsewhere around the world, art galleries and museums remain shuttered, hemorrhaging staff and plaintively asking, What will it take to reopen? And just as crucially, What will this new art…
Any sustainable and resilient plan for returning to live performance will have to be highly adaptable, nimble, responsive, and risk-tolerant. The trick will be to find loosely-coupled approa…
No, it's not a traditional practice, but there are pallbearers in Ghana who (at the bereaved's request) will execute some slick moves while toting the coffin on their shoulders. The social m…
Karissa Krenz: "Perhaps the coronavirus is forcing us to have an extended performance of John Cage's … groundbreaking 1952 work that epitomized his every-sound-can-be-music philosophy. ……
Turns out not even the people involved agree on the answer to that. Absolutely not, says Ryan Rilette, artistic director of metro DC's Round House (the theater behind the project): "You can'…
English National Opera is planning to stage two classics on the grounds of the Alexandra Palace in North London, with singers and orchestral players spaced at least six feet apart and the au…
Saturday afternoon's At-Home Gala, the brainchild of Met general manager Peter Gelb, will have opera stars performing live on the Web from wherever they're waiting out the COVID lockdown. Wh…
"With no clear indication when the theater might be deemed safe to reopen, [managing director Amy] Wratchford and her remaining team (all on half or quarter salary) have written contingency …
As general director from 1985 to 1993, he, along with director of productions David Pountney and chief conductor Mark Elder, "fostered a production style based on radical, dynamic dramaturgy…
A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit ruled 2-to-1 that "education " at least in the minimum form discussed here " is essential to nearly every interaction between a citizen and her gover…
"The robber, who arrived to the [Singer Laren] museum [near Amsterdam] on a motorcycle, broke in by smashing reinforced glass doors with a sledgehammer. Leaving the scene, the thief took Van…
"They don't want to be lumped in with meatpacking plants and senior centers as hot spots for the virus. Already struggling financially, theaters fear that a too-soon return could stigmatize …
The Democratic National Committee staffer was shot during a mugging in the summer of 2016, but a conspiracy theory, developed in right-wing circles and repeated on Fox News, claimed that Ric…
"More than just the organizational and financial genius of the enterprise, Mrs. Wyeth also had a firm hand in guiding her husband's artistic development. … Later she came up with the idea …
"Its vast army of 1,800 artists relies on international travel to get from show to show, regularly crossing borders, performing on cruise ships, and interacting with fans. Daily training reg…
Shortly after the pianist abandoned live performance for good, he started making nonfiction radio programs for the CBC, the best-known of which are called the "Solitude Trilogy": The Idea of…
Mark Harris: "So forget the movies " he certainly has. What remains is the man, and on that score, Apropos of Nothing is one of the most unsettling accounts of a life I ever hope never to en…
"Today, as the pandemic reshapes the ways we understand our work life and its meaning, Terkel's supermarket workers would be classified 'essential' to the smooth continuity of society. Yet t…
Earlier this week, Helen Shaw wrote that the Broadway.com stream of Jonathan Tolin's Buyer & Cellar was "the proof-of-concept for low-budget live-capture." So she talked to the people wh…
"In a long film, television and stage career [she] earned two Oscar nominations while still in her 20s, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later garnered three Emmy Awards." " The New York Times