"While jazz-inspired music by the likes of Stravinsky and Weill has never been forgotten, the similar efforts of dozens of other composers from the same period have fallen into obscurity. No…
I'm overjoyed to report that her condition has improved significantly since yesterday. The internal bleeding has stopped, she is resting comfortably, and her doctors are completely satisfied…
When dealing with new communities, staff and board members of nonprofit arts organizations are sometimes puzzled when things they thought would work crash and burn. Often, there is really no…
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, principals of Grafton Architecture in Dublin, have already racked up some impressive awards in recent years: the World Architecture Festival's World Buil…
Late last year, a one-third share of the Tribune was purchased by Alden Global Capital, an equity firm notorious for buying newspapers and stripping them bare. Contractual issues prevent Ald…
If you think that's a ridiculous question, the woman who wrote this article agrees with you. But it became a question nonetheless, thanks in part to (no surprise here) the American Enterpris…
Kriston Capps reviews the 26-year-long process of convincing the City of New York to allow the project to happen in Central Park " and allows as how, when it was over, the biggest question w…
"Janielle Kastner and Brigham Mosley thought they had finished writing their play about journalism when The Dallas Morning News announced layoffs in January 2019. They had spent more than a …
Quibi has been getting all the press for its plans to make video series expressly to be watched on smartphones. But Snapchat has been doing that for years, creating 95 Snap Originals (as the…
Fears over the spread of the COVID-19 virus have led more than 20,000 people (so far) to join in the request that organizers call off this year's festival, which is still scheduled to run Ma…
Michael Billington: "A decade described as a manageable catastrophe saw an explosion in theatre, even if artists didn't always get paid. You can see the effects today in that money is tight …
"As a sexual assault survivor myself, my conscience would not allow me to be a party to an agreement than allowed the union to bury the details of Domingo's decades-long abuse of female AGMA…
"Ebola was not a pandemic, but it created a panic rarely seen in the U.S. It was on the heels of the Ebola mania that the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History developed Outbreak:…
The ABT star, who credits the company and its physiotherapists with restoring his ability to dance following a severe injury in 2014, will take over from David McAllister at the beginning of…
"Since the early 1970s, Ulay created performances and photographs that made frequent use of his own body. Having worked collaboratively for more than a decade with Marina Abramović, his …
Mrs. T survived her double-lung transplant surgery and has been moved to the cardio-thoracic ICU. As her surgeon put it, "We're not out of the woods yet, but we're moving in the right direct…
In one, concentrating on songs with winter themes, she is accompanied by a distinguished European quartet. A second album finds her alone with the harmonically resourceful and swinging Chica…
"The shifts across the network era, magnified in the early 1980s, help us to see how variable the category of soap opera, and perhaps the ordering concept of genre itself, may be." What's mo…
The African nation is getting prosperous enough to begin (slowly) offering state funding to the performing arts. One beneficiary of this development is Mophato Dance Theatre, which combines …
"There is no western counterpart to Umm Kulthum, no artist as respected and beloved as she is in the Arab world." She sang everything from the most complex classical Arabic music to national…
"One of the most mysterious aspects of Poe's legacy is his untimely death at the age of 40 after being found 'delirious' and in 'great distress' on the streets of Baltimore. The author was i…
"When Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's Voices dropped earlier this month, it was poised to become an instant hit. The anthology, a mix of recipes and essays …
"By 1515, after Pope Julius II famously commissioned Michelangelo to repaint the chapel's ceiling (1508"1515), the chapel had become decidedly top-heavy in its decoration. Then-Pope Leo X (b…
"What does make a theatre feel like home? Negotiating mobile phones, sweet wrappers and chatty Kathys is a well-documented headache for theatre staff and spectators alike. The academic Kirst…
By now the documentary theatre piece about the murder of Matthew Shepard has been performed thousands of times by professionals, amateurs, and students; an estimated 10 million people have s…