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PRS, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, said 1,755 women signed up in 2019, versus 1,097 in 2018. Around 63% were under the age of 30. However, 5,580 men signed up in t…
Alex Ross revisits that odd period when the Nazi regime had driven the cream of pre-war German arts and letters " Werfel, Döblin, Viertel, Brecht, Adorno, three different Manns, along with …
Camus's The Plague follows the inhabitants of Oran, an Algerian town that is sealed off by quarantine as it is ravaged by bubonic plague. Penguin is rushing through a reprint of its English …
"During the germinal days of television, … [she] became famous as 'The Girl With the Glasses,' for un-self-consciously wearing her signature eyeglasses on camera as she delivered live, on-…
The pleasure of filling out an alignment chart is similar to that of playing a simple brainteaser, or completing an elementary-school worksheet: You're making judgment calls, sorting, puttin…
Superman and his contemporaries launched a fascination with technological superism that continues today. Here were individuals whose bodies and their capacities were somehow warped through b…
Mr. Tyner's manner was modest, but his sound was rich, percussive and serious, his lyrical improvisations centered by powerful left-hand chords marking the first beat of the bar and the tona…
This is the paradox of authenticity: In order to reap the many of the benefits of feeling authentic, you may have to betray your true nature. " Scientific American
Hollywood became synonymous with increased income and long absences from home. The manna from Faulkner's work on screenplays and the movie options on his novels was very welcome indeed, but …
"Now that it's public, it's still not clear why the parties sought to keep the settlement terms private in the first place, other than the fact that NDAs and confidentiality agreements have …
"Politics has always been present in French humour. But standup brought forward a whole population left out by the system " the poor, uneducated sons and daughters of immigrants." " The Guar…
"The turmoil will only further damage an institution that has, for most of its existence, failed to live up to its name while presenting one mediocre exhibition after another." Aaron Betsky …
Fortunately, thanks to fear of the coronavirus outbreak that has led to this rule, it's easy to comply with. " The New York Times
Michael Brodeur, most recently an assistant arts editor and critic at the Boston Globe, starts work next week. " The Washington Post
"More than a month after the board overseeing the School of Architecture at Taliesin announced the school would close after 88 years of operation, the board has reversed its decision and pla…
"The Southern Rep Theatre company has laid off six staff members and canceled an upcoming play as it struggles to pay expenses and debt, artistic director Aimee Hayes said Thursday. The 34-y…
"Ushers in some theaters are wearing latex gloves. Museums are installing hand sanitizer dispensers as if they were pieces of art. Audience members are being told: If you have a cough, pleas…
Says choreographer Andrew McNicol, "With McNicol Ballet Collective I wanted to create a new type of company that offers world-class dancers a flexible performance platform that's able to fit…
Jeremy Reynolds took a couple of friends to their first symphony concert and sent them home at intermission " and not because they were misbehaving or ill. Here he explains why. (Even interm…
Simon Godwin is on a quest for the sweet spot in American Shakespeare: to figure out what stimulates the American psyche and to reconcile traditionalists who want to see "doublets and hose" …
Mrs. T continues to recover smoothly from her double-lung transplant surgery. Her chest cavity, which was deliberately left open after the operation, was washed out and closed up last night,…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the off-Broadway premiere of Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King and the Broadway transfer of Girl From the North Country. Here's an excerpt.
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Bing Crosby sings "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, on an episode of The Hollywood Palace originally telecast by ABC on March 1, 1969:
(This is the latest in a seri…
"There must be a spice of mischief and wilfulness thrown into the cup of our existence to give it its sharp taste and sparkling colour."
William Hazlitt, "On Depth and Superficiality"
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Siobhan Burke: "Divulging this information has never been simple, not during the four and a half years I spent touring, on and off, with the Irish dance extravaganza, and not in the decade s…
