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Jane Alexander, the 80-year-old actress who has starred in Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, and, not incidentally, who was head of the NEA during the (first) culture wars, is onstage again, …
The Earth Harp is a massive stringed instrument that its inventor, William Close, says makes audiences feel like they're "inside the instrument" during performances. Indeed, because he has t…
The dancers, including lead dancer Wu Husheng, aren't finding it easy to train and rehearse with masks on. "Wu, 33, says he can normally train for an hour at a time, but he feels breathle…
The objection: "The series depicts fictional atrocities taking place in Nazi death camps, including a game of human chess in which people are killed when a piece is taken off the board." And…
And it's Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, almost destroyed in the 1940s. " Los Angeles Times
At least, that's true in Australia, according to the results of a recent survey. The more services you subscribed to, the more likely you were to pirate. That's a little weird, right? Well �…
Once Haenel publicly accused film director Christophe Ruggia of harassment and "inappropriate sexual contact" that began when she was 12, women in France began speaking out in large numbers.…
But can anything? Between big multinational publishers with software aimed at the U.S. market " that doesn't differentiate between U.S. and Canadian authors, for instance " and the emphasis …
A mystery voting system, a government that has passed laws harming people in the city where the awards are held, and a ton of wins for only one film " that's just the beginning of the issues…
Indeed, Ireland didn't even get its own national poet or fiction laureate until 1998 and 2015, respectively. "Laureateships, like prizes and bursaries, recognise a coherent tradition built o…
The British got a lot wrong as the empire spread, and one facet of colonial mistakes was how to look at Tibetan religious and art objects made of skulls or thighbones. "To British colonial o…
Sure, sure, Hollywood has tried it before " but, along with Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog is reaping big bucks. That means "video game movies are really having a moment." " Sydney Mo…
Carlo Rozzi, conducting the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff on February 22, stopped Verdi's Les Vêpres Sicilienes twice " and he wasn't afraid to go directly to the audience about why. Sa…
Is this a city-led marriage made in heaven? One city councillor claims, "If we lose the DIY spaces we lose the next generation of live musicians." " CBC
Here's why it matters that a new Dickenson series feels so modern, and why it matters that new scholarship refutes the old lies about the poet. "If the 'real' person of Dickinson is translat…
The dance itself, and Irish dance in general, is obviously older " but it débuted as an interval act at Eurovision, and its appeal has never gone away. Its newest star says, "It's all I've …
K-Pop and K-Drama success wasn't by accident. "The wave spread across Asia before reaching a global audience thanks to savvy social networking strategies and a steady stream of media with in…
The good: Leadership. "Its festival directorships were shared equally between men and women, and … its executive board was similarly balanced." The less good: Director numbers. "The majori…
Cerny, said Henry Louis Gates Jr., was "the proverbial dean of American genealogical research, … [whose work was] transforming raw data into narratives and metaphors about diversity and ou…
Well, that's a fraught subject. Phoebe Waller-Bridges, who wrote the show and plays the character, says, "Actually, she wishes she were more perfect, and that feels like it was an attack on …
But no one really knew it because her husband kept it one of her carefully guarded secrets. Now, "searching the archives for Amelia Earhart's lost poems is a study in fragments"every tucked-…
The find is in the Roman Forum, where authorities revealed on Friday that they believe this may date to the 6th century B.C.E., 200 years after Romulus was said to have lived. That means it'…
They're different from the quality of movie soundtracks, many of which don't stand alone, and they're "a marvelous untapped source of experimental instrumental electronica. … The context o…
Sound stages of the 1930s and 1940s needed lots of stage sets, and at MGM, George Gibson was the man in charge. "The backdrops he created appeared in films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), A…
This is the weirdest possible sentence to write, but director Céline Sciamma says that Portrait of a Lady on Fire isn't considered erotic in, of all places, France. What? WHAT? Quoi?? Sciam…
