As Philip Glass's work about the monotheist pharaoh gets a major revival at the Met, news comes that a new opera on the life of King Tutankhamun is set to premiere late next year in Cairo. T…
Says Billington, who began at the paper in 1971 and has written roughly 10,000 reviews, "I shall shortly be 80 and, with the years, the stress of writing to a deadline doesn't get any easier…
Sure, there's Heinz Hall, where the Pittsburgh Symphony performs, but that's 2,700 seats, and smaller ensembles can't really fill the hall. It's depressing to be in a half-empty hall, even w…
A revival of Fires in the Mirror, Smith's 1992 solo show about the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and the tension between Caribbean Blacks and Hasidic Jews there, is opening in New York ne…
St. John writes a letter to Roberto Diaz, president of the school: "You and the Board have failed both this venerable institution and the Curtis community." " Lara St. John
"Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, [Camilo Fidel] López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorful…
A new study reports that it "turns out that your penchant for variability, such as when you toss a new ingredient into a recipe or follow a creative hunch into the unknown, is often driven b…
"It's a big piece of evidence countering a major argument used by those arguing against ditching overdue fines for library books." " Forbes
The "East Bank" cultural quarter project " to include Sadler's Wells dance theatre, the BBC, the London College of Fashion, a new University College London campus, and both a public building…
"Witnesses report that three suspects rammed into the cathedral in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in southwestern France with a tree trunk strapped to their car." (Yes, a battering ram.) "Inside the ch…
My father had no knowledge of or interest in classical music himself, but he brought home a record for me whenever he passed through Memphis on business. This is the one I remember best. " T…
The alto saxophonist has long found that the nine-piece-ensemble format stimulates his creativity, and over the years, he has made several nonet albums. " Doug Ramsey
Sir Jonathan Miller's direction of The Mikado " his staging, dating all the way back to 1986, is now back " is the source of the treasure-hoard that has allowed English National Opera's surv…
"Arthur Farwell is probably the most neglected composer in our history." This assessment, by the late composer/critic A. Walter Kramer in 1973, rings ever louder today; Farwell has been deem…
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.…
From 2009: Harcourt sent me the first finished copy of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong last Tuesday. It was an inordinately busy week crammed full of shows and deadlines, but I talked a s…
"She watched his eyes. Why is it that some people display themselves in their eyes, she wondered, while others do not? Her own eyes, she well knew, usually displayed only what she wanted the…
Vinyl sales have been surging in the last few years, as CD sales stay flat and digital downloads decrease. In the United Kingdom, data from 2016 reveals that vinyl LP sales revenue surpassed…
Without the blunt, binaristic borders between zones " humanities versus sciences, humanities versus social sciences " the disciplines could connect across the much more complex and multifari…
Published in August, Mr. Dubois's novel "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon" ("All Men Do Not Live in the Same Way") is a story narrated by a man languishing in a…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of nation's leading regional theatres. The Executive Director will join Artistic Director N…
"I was never ashamed of being a sissy, and I wore the bullying as a badge of honor," he writes. "I knew what was going on and I knew who I was, so I took care of myself by being funny. Never…
The central library is built to serve as a kind of citizenship factory, a space for old and new residents to learn about the world, the city, and each other. It's pointedly sited across from…
"Particularly in the past few years, conspiracy theories have been omnipresent on the internet and in social media. These modern forms of communication allow conspiracy theories to spread fa…
Like a pint-sized Cecil B. DeMille, we see Page in his family's suburban Connecticut neighborhood as he wrangles his actors, gauges camera angles and shouts, "Action!" In cut-away interviews…