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In today's Wall Street Journal I review two new musicals, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Cyrano. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Yet another new jukebox biomusical, "Tina: The Tina…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I explain how American theaters rarely perform older plays"and what effect that has on our theatrical culture. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â …
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
Buddy Rich appears with his band on a 1967 episode of The Mike Douglas Show: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednes…
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." H.L. Mencken,  "Footnote on Criticism"
I've never bought a copy of Rolling Stone. but I did buy The Rolling Stone Record Review, a mass-market paperback that came out in 1971, and I read it until the glue dried up and the pages f…
What people don't understand is that, for most of history, music was a kind of cloud storage for societies. I like to tell people that music is a technology for societies that don't have sem…
The scope of the destruction is stunning: 89 medieval churches, 5,840 khachkars and 22,000 tombstones, the report said. The annihilation of cultural heritage dwarfs the more widely reported …
"In this guilty-until-proven-innocent cancel culture, where everyone is condemned to death or to a lifetime of unemployment based on an accusation that's 12 years old, is criminal," Judith R…
Hengdian World Studios, built in the 1990s on farmland in China's southeastern Zhejiang Province, claims to be the world's largest outdoor film studio and features full-scale replicas of the…
DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Vice President, Operations for the Peace Center in Greenville, SC.
San Juan Community Theatre seeks a Director of Development to join our team in Friday Harbor.
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back for the latest in a series o…
"That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: 'You're wrong.' So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they've always art…
"The new work, Black Exhibition" " which he developed under the pseudonym @GaryXXXFisher " "is described in the script as an attempt 'to look at a queer black male psyche through the lens of…
Planet Word isn't the first to tackle language and reading in a museum format " there's Mundolingua in Paris, as well as language museums in Toronto and the Netherlands, among others " and i…
Effervescence is generated when humans come together to make music or perform rituals, an experience that lingers when the ceremonies are over. The suggestion, therefore, is that collective …
Leslie Jamison considers "the enduring appeal of the afflicted woman " especially the young, beautiful, white afflicted woman: our favorite tragic victim, our repository of rarefied, elegiac…
The vast majority of Netflix's viewers (upwards of 80 percent, according to him) watch licensed content ("Friends" and the like) and in order to create a library of programming audiences wil…
"The 76-year-old screen icon … had a 'very limited stroke which is reversible', her family said in a statement. 'Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have…
"Paris's National Picasso Museum and the Giacometti Foundation are teaming up to manage the new institution for at least the first five years, from June 2020 through June 2025. (After that, …
"The Justice Department is going on the offensive against the anonymous author of A Warning, telling them in a letter obtained by CNN Business that he or she "may be violating 'one or more n…
Two visual-effects companies will apply CGI to surviving film footage and photographs of the actor, who was killed in a car crash at age 24 in 1955, to create "a realistic version of James D…
"If the question is whether, a century from now, his operas will get new productions, his symphonies will circulate more frequently, or pianists will take on his études, Mr. Glass couldn't …
Says Anthony Roth Costanzo, who plays the title role, "It brings you back to the most fundamental things about your technique. And if your house is not in order, you're not going to get thro…
