"The Conservative Party election manifesto, launched yesterday afternoon by the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, pledges the establishment of a £250m fund 'to support local libraries and …
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott: "The most popular movies and the movies we love most aren't always the ones that shape the industry, reflect the times or change the terms of cultural discours…
"I really want to shake up this old-fashioned, beautiful, wonderful place a bit," says composer Olga Neuwirth, 51, whose adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens on December 8. (The hous…
"Performer Harrison Knights is behind the venture, called Trans Voices Company, which aims to help address a lack of casting opportunities for non-cisgender actors." " The Stage
"As Life magazine's art editor, Ms. Seiberling helped shape public opinion about the 20th century's foremost avant-gardist artists" " most notably, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Abstract Expressi…
"Campaign groups have urged regulators to protect music and sports fans from the threat of rip-off prices after eBay agreed to sell StubHub, its ticketing business, to the Swiss ticket resel…
How do you capture the scale, the struggle, the elemental extremity of mountain climbing? In the theatre? It's simpler than you think. After all, they both use the same kit. " David Jays
"My work is not happy work. It's very difficult work. It's very powerful work, I like to think. So I make stuff very colorful. I make it bright. I make it look like a piece of candy, so that…
"The HBS Club of Chicago " Nonprofit Leadership Fund, Community Impact Scholars Pilot Program has sent its first participant to the Harvard Extension School (HES) for leadership development.…
"Of the nearly 22% of the city's 1.5 million residents who speak a language other than English at home, the largest group are Spanish-speaking. Here are three art initiatives in Philly aimed…
"The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice. As a part of …
"[Clara Porset] is at the heart of an ongoing exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that looks at the ways in which six Modern artists " all women " were engaging Mexican art and crafts…
David Dower: "[Foundry co-founder Melanie Joseph has] been so far out in front of the field for thirty years, in a place the American theatre " with its templated, collectively bargained lan…
"The lack of widespread acknowledgement or recognition for Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American novelist and author of Our Nig (1859), comes as a surprise. A New Englander, Wilson r…
"Opening Tuesday at the Geffen Playhouse, The Thanksgiving Play centers on a group of 'woke' white thespians who struggle to devise a historically accurate and culturally sensitive elementar…
Brooke Mosay Ammann: "In 2018, First Nations Development Institute and Frontline Solutions released We Need to Change How We Think, a report that served as an introductory communication brid…
"The expectation of unpaid internships is a barrier for young people from distressed communities to gain work experience and subsequent entry into the performing arts administration workforc…
"Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. has built a career making room for others. In 2012 he co-founded the community-minded Civic Ensemble in Ithaca, N.Y., and he will next take the reins as artistic dire…
David Giles: "As one of the designers of Culture Pass, I could not be more pleased with the results so far. After launching in summer 2018 with twenty-nine participating organizations and se…
"In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Bu…
"The Open Society Foundations has announced the launch of a four-year, $15 million initiative aimed at returning cultural objects looted from the African continent. The initiative will suppo…
"[POWER Lunch host Ntokozo Mazibuko] speaks to entrepreneur Ofentse Pitse, the first young black woman to own and conduct an all-black orchestra [in South Africa]." (audio) " POWER Lunch (So…
"The trauma of her assault is the subject of [soprano Lucy] Dhegrae's four-concert Processing Series, which opens on Saturday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. The series attempts to shed lig…
"While the foundation will continue to support nonprofit arts organizations that are creating, producing, and presenting performances across the region and will continue to fund organization…
"As a conductor, Kim Diehnelt has to do a lot of schmoozing and interacting with people. She was so uncomfortable with that, she considered hanging up her baton. Then four years ago, she was…