The theatre awards season kicks into high gear with the announcement of the 2018 Drama Desk nominations. Unlike the Tony Awards, which only honor Broadway productions, the Drama Desk conside…
A few weeks ago, we went behind the scenes at Gibney to give you an intimate look at how this downtown dance hub crafts performances and fosters community. We continue our coverage of this s…
How Lucy Thurber's new drama was inspired by a pair of her pupils---Obie-winning playwright Lucy Thurber is as interested in talking about her teaching experiences as her new drama Transfers…
Lauren Ridloff shares the show's unprecedented accessibility for people who are deaf---Lauren Ridloff was two years old when the original production of Children of a Lesser God debuted on Br…
Meet Broadway musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, one of the show's unsung sheroes---Much has been written about the girl power of Broadway's Mean Girls. After all, the female-focused m…
Irish Rep revives Conor McPherson's Tony-nominated play---The Seafarer, Conor McPherson's tale of despair and redemption on a drunken Christmas Eve, is a decidedly male affair. In fact, acco…
Allan Corduner on playing Pickering in the Broadway revival---Pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins and his Cockney flower girl protégé Eliza Doolittle may have a will-they…
Lar Lubovitch celebrates 50 years as a choreographer at the Joyce---After a half century of running his own eponymous dance company, celebrated choreographer Lar Lubovitch is confident in hi…
"I'm leery of any musician who doesn't admit to going through a period of trying to emulate their musical idols, or their favorite performance of a piece, or even just trying to match what y…
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," a two-part drama now in previews and opening April 22, cost about $68.5 million to bring to Broadway, including not only $35.5 million to capitalize the …
In a world where Banksy street-pieces " essentially, illegally created public art " cut from buildings can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars, proprietary domain is a hot-button issue…
Rebeat Innovation is creating "HD vinyl" that the company claims will have "30 percent more playing time, 30 percent more amplitude, and overall more faithful sound reproduction."
At first glance, the case looked like a fairly straightforward dispute"a small, non-profit education publishing company alleged that FedEx violated its copyright by printing copies of its ma…
Though many podcast networks are on the move right now, one has been dominant since its founding, taking advantage of "a quirk of the iTunes chart, which appears to reward an influx of new l…
Talk to orchestra leaders around the country, and you find a new consensus about what community work means: a new approach to an orchestra's role, even a new approach to training musicians. …
Writer Renno Eddi-Lodge: "Design is something that seamlessly slots into your life: my clothes, the tech I use, the bike I ride, kitchenware. I try to prioritise function; I am not someone w…
One American anthropologist asked for a file kept on her by the secret police in Romania - and she was shocked to find that more than 70 people had informed on her during her time there, and…
Whew, Met Museum. Some people are not thrilled with your selection of Max Hollein: "It feels like a very ho-hum decision on the part of the Met, almost like electing an old pope who will onl…
For a National Geographic documentary, astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli turned into a cameraman - with a famous trainer. But that didn't help much when space intervened: "The sensor seem…
A summary would include several committee resignations after a failed vote to exclude a poet whose husband - not who, herself - has been accused of rape and sexual harassment. But wait: "It …
Historians may rejoice, while fans of mythology might be a little sad: "One driving force behind the renovation was to put artworks into proper historical context. Mr. Potts and his team hav…
The Echo prize went to Kollegah and Farid Bang, whose lyrics include claims that their bodies are "more defined than Auschwitz prisoners," which they say is not anti-Semitic. The upshot: "Th…
Not every book needs to be splashy. Author Silas House: "To me, good literature examines the way the biggest moments of life happens in the quiet moments. I think the characters I create ten…
French law forbids the exclusion of any children, but the singer left his estimated £100 million estate only to the daughters he adopted with his fourth wife. But he made his will in Cali…
There's an old bromide that people want certainty in uncertain times - and crime fiction usually ends with a very certain solution, that of the main mystery. In addition, "while the essence …