That's what conductor Benjamin Sanders, music director of the Boston Phil, thinks. He recorded an 80-minute version with the London Philharmonic Orchestra- and when that version is released,…
What even is "elevated horror," for that matter?
He saw a dance performance by chance in his freshman year at the University of Iowa. He "was lucky to discover dance when he did, in the early 1960s " the tail end of the heroic age of Ameri…
Thinking isn't everything, or rather, it isn't actually divorced from feeling. "Part of being intelligent is about the ability to function autonomously in various conditions and environments…
This isn't a new story, but it's a darn good one. "Word of the performance's cancellation, which had been broadcast on the radio, was rescinded, and crowds started forming at the theater: Ya…
Oh, Thierry Frémaux, did you really say this? You did. "Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux remarked at a news conference Thursday morning that the world 'will never be the same again…
Harrison, who with her husband Newton formed the art duo The Harrisons, created work that was "unconventional, to say the least, pushing the very boundaries of what constitutes art. They mad…
Authors who are taking part in Audible's scheme in Britain (it's already happened in the U.S.) need to think differently. One said, "It was presented to me specifically as an audio project, …
Part of the huge price tag came from gutting and redoing the Lyric, the theatre where it opens (after record-breaking previews) next week. Of course, one imagines it will easily make its mon…
Why should the huge southern city of London have all of the power? It's a problem "Power is concentrated in London and the South East, and publishing is dominated by a handful of large corpo…
Forman's direction of Cuckoo's Nest put him "in the front rank of those who struggled to make big, commercial films with countercultural sensibilities. His sympathy for the odd man out was a…
Who knows what the hedge fund might do to the chain? (Take a quick look at the stripped and bankrupted Toys R Us, or newspapers like the Denver Post, or ... ) Meanwhile: "The proximity of th…
Indeed: "The lead editorial pulled no punches, describing executives at Alden Global Capital, the paper's hedge-fund owner, as 'vulture capitalists.' 'We call for action,' the editorial cont…
Theatre history nerds, rejoice! "These one-sheet playbills trace the history of theater in New York. They were originally posted around Manhattan to advertise Shakespeare plays, minstrel sho…
The Fourth of July Boston Pops concerts are particularly successful, but in total, "adjusted for inflation, that's up roughly 40 percent from a similar independent study done in 2008. A deca…
One man runs a bookshop in Berlin's old Jewish Quarter, and he helped lead a protest against neo-Nazi marches in the quarter. "Braunsdorf, who has hosted German-Arabic reading events at his …
That's (obviously?) not a good thing for actual Aboriginal artists in Australia. But there's no law against it. The chair of Western Australia's Aboriginal Art Hub "said the current Indigeno…
Hmmm. "She effectively exerts her own gravitational force field, magnetized by strategically deployed invitations, introductions, magazine features and messages of support. If that disappear…
He had been trying to sell his apartment since the election, but no one would buy it. "Mr. Brassner, 67, lived alone amid a collection of about 100 vintage electric guitars, 40 guitar amplif…
They're navigating a lot of money questions. "Since Years & Years won the BBC's Sound of 2015, lead singer Olly Alexander has been refreshingly open about his sexuality. Speaking at a St…
Whoa: "In the UK, a new and thrilling jazz movement has evolved. As with Lamar, Thundercat and Washington, it is born out of fresh experimentalism, is reaching far younger, more diverse audi…
Well, they try to "modernize" it, for one thing. And the design! The Passover celebration - on a Monday, natch, when theatres are dark - "took place in a large downtown apartment in a prewar…
Was it maybe a mistake? "'It's a totally interactive (exhibit), there's a bunch of rocks on the ground and people can walk up to them and pick them up,' Long said. The intention is that the …
How did director Kay Cannon get the job of helming the new sex comedy Blockers - and making it "a harder R" than it had been in its original script? She went to a meeting. "Point Grey and Go…
Will Hailey pursue her conducting career? What will happen to Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, er, Thomas and Gloria? WHEN WILL JOSH BELL CAMEO NEXT? Unless another company steps in a…