"Yuval Sharon will serve as Long Beach Opera's interim artistic director and dream up the 2021 season." He would seem to be a good fit for a small company known for unusual work. "Any other …
"The Labour Party election manifesto … pledges to establish a £1bn Cultural Capital Fund 'to transform libraries, museums and galleries across the country'. … The manifesto [also] com…
Patrisse Cullors, a performance artist who recently completed a master's degree at USC with a concentration on performance and activism, designed the new two-year online program, called Soci…
In the years after the man who invented the essay died in 1592, his remains were moved between several sites. One of those places was a convent in Bordeaux whose building now houses the Mus…
"It makes perfect sense to DA Larry Krasner, who sees the arts as central to the criminal justice reform movement … 'the connection between the reforms we're trying to make in Philadelphia…
"The Paper Monuments project, a participatory imagining of the monuments New Orleanians would like, stepped into that pause [after old statues were removed] to involve New Orleanians in the …
American companies have been looking hard at this problem in the past few years, especially in the annual cash cow that is Nutcracker. With ballet becoming ever more internationalized " "a p…
With a history going back almost 150 years, College Street in Kolkata "has every imaginable type of text, available in Bengali, English, Mandarin, Sanskrit, Dutch, and every dialect in betwe…
Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón: "After the curfew was over, a few theatres came back to do shows and a lot of people went to see them. … People were yearning for a s…
Until now, the honor had been thought to belong to Florence Lawrence ("the Biograph Girl"), who became famous under her own name following an outrageous publicity stunt by her new studio in …
"New Zealand is hoping that by 2040, one million Kiwis will be able to speak basic te reo MÄori, the Maori language. This ambitious goal is part of an official language strategy that sees…
For me, the most jaw-dropping instance of curatorial (and directorial) trend-chasing was the Met's announcement that the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman had been commissioned by the museum…
At Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen has a short post on some unintended consequences of a wealth tax, and his is (let's say) an unusual take. " Michael Rushton
The World Performing Arts Capitals, a joint project of the International Theatre Institute and UNESCO, "twin a major metropolis like London or New York with a smaller city or town, similar t…
Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic in London (and former artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore): "People are listening in a way they didn't 10 years ago, 20 years …
"As soon as James Griffin gets off the school bus he tells his mom, 'Go dance, go dance.' James is 14 and has autism, and his speech is limited. He's a participant in a program for children …
Choi took the fiction prize for her novel Trust Exercise, while the nonfiction award went to Sarah M. Broom's memoir The Yellow House. Winning the young people's literature category was Mart…
"An 11-count federal indictment accuses Catherine Pugh of arranging fraudulent sales of her Healthy Holly books to schools, libraries and a medical system to enrich herself, promote her poli…
"Defined as 'a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it', Oxford said the words…
"The Metropolitan Opera has run small deficits for the past two years and faces rising capital expenses " including for the repair of its white travertine exterior " prompting S & P Glob…
"The police are still looking for the missing john " an artwork called America by Maurizio Cattelan " but, so far, they remain empty-handed. … Six people had been arrested in connection wi…
"Arte Generali saw a solid gold opportunity to penetrate the Italian art market, … [with an ad campaign that] features artist Maurizio Cattelan clowning around in the buff with only oversi…
"Although he has never written an opera, his appointment grew out of Cycles of My Being, a set of emotionally complex songs he composed for [tenor Lawrence Brownlee and] Opera Philadelphia e…
"Launched by Directors UK, the professional association for screen directors, the guidelines were, according to the organization, 'born of the need to set clear and shared professional expec…
As president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, Minton published such classics as Lord of the Flies, The Godfather, and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and he was "among the first to recognize the po…