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"[Joy] Harjo interrogates both one's responsibility toward one's culture and the fear of being buried under its weight. … This 'trade language,' as she later calls English, is weak, insuff…
The Fox Theatre Tucson invites applications for the position of Executive Director.
The days of the in-person first audition (and maybe even second) are over, writes Melissa Errico: even well-established performers like herself and Raúl Esparza have to send in videos of …
Her village doesn't have a stage, so she gathers her performers under a walnut tree in her garden for rehearsals while they do their domestic chores. Her love of theatre is apparentlyÅ
"In August 2015, the then Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini, announced the first 20 'super directors' of national museums, granting those institutions fiscal autonomy for the firs…
"The authoritative Theatres Trust reckons there are currently 263 theatres in London. It's about the same number as Tokyo, whereas Paris has around 350. New York tops the list with well over…
A new video titled Dirtiest Porn Ever shows us the basic sex on a beach " except that this beach is absolutely covered with plastic trash, which workers in Pornhub-branded protective suits p…
The top-line message from the organization is that the combined revenue of the participating publishers for the first six months of the year was nearly US$6 billion. The previous caveat in p…
"Before you start loading up your fall culture calendar, take a moment this Labor Day Weekend to reflect on those people who make sure that the city's cultural events … go off without a hi…
Combined with rising production costs and, as Interim General Director Sue Dixon puts it, "the shifting philanthropic landscape of Portland," there was the very real possibility of the organ…
Once we thought drivers, doctors, accountants, and lawyers were irreplaceable. And yet we are beginning to see computers encroaching on those fields. Now, even the most human of professions"…
"Academic freedom is no simple matter. We have distinct ways of understanding it, often according to class, discipline, race, gender, and ideology. At base, academic freedom entitles us, as …
"Theatre is ephemeral, we explain endlessly. Every time we raise five thousand dollars to put up a show in some under-lit black box, we find ourselves trying to justify the existence of a wo…
Kathryn Lewek just finished a run as Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Salzburg Festival, one of her first performances since giving birth earlier this year. After a f…
Jenna Wortham writes about a set of recent films that "points a finger directly at the greed of empire, and at the deliberate and elaborate social construction of whiteness to oppress, to ra…
With his Stanley Love Performance Group, "[he] helped shape New York's downtown performance scene since the mid-1990s with large-scale, vibrant performances that he set to pop music." " ARTn…
Sergey Chernyshev, 18, began learning breakdancing from his father, also named Sergey, who picked it up from VHS tapes that made it into newly de-Sovietized Russia in the 1990s. "In many way…
NYFOS's annual August concert at the tip of Long Island's North Fork is always adventurous, even by its standards. This year's program set conventional art song (Bizet, Ned Rorem) alongside …
"In general, [new Seattle Opera general director Christina Schippelmann] and others say, the absence of women in top positions results more from systemic factors than intentional discriminat…
Imogene Coca performs her "Modest Stripper" routine on Admiral Broadway Revue. This episode was originally telecast simultaneously by NBC and DuMont on March 11, 1949: (This is the latest…
"There is no more painful human illusion than that you can catch up on lost reading in old age. Old age is the busiest of them all. Things you used to do effortlessly take you forever, provi…
"The bottom line is that classical streaming is here, and, despite the kinks and quirks, it works. The problem of access has been solved. Although classical music is a very small piece of th…
"In the decades since the 1980s, and after the victory of capitalism over communism in the cold war, we have lived, Chantal Mouffe told me, within a sense of the "normal" to which there has …
Mary-Kay Wilmers, co-founder and longtime editor of the London Review of Books, takes apart the ways that book reviewers do their work. " Literary Hub
Max Anderson: "If their portfolios continue to be awash with stocks in petroleum companies, big pharma, and arms merchants, they will remain open to charges of hypocrisy. But if they change …
