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"Standing 6-foot-3, Mr. Dennehy had a booming voice and an often intimidating screen presence. … [He] was celebrated for his work as a character actor in Hollywood and on television, where…
"[WBUR in Boston] had planned to return to a full eight-day campaign in 2020, after doing a marathon-themed 26.2-hour version for the past few years. … Months of planning for the original …
With demand for its content soaring as people are self-isolating due to COVID, the streaming giant's total market value on Wall Street has risen to $196 billion. Meanwhile, with demand for i…
"It's bizarre to be this busy and not presenting music," said an official at one festival; "We've had to unravel a pretty huge ball of yarn while transitioning to working remotely," said ano…
"In many ways, we'll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, the …
"Bach is undoubtedly music's supreme companion of extreme distress. … But, on the plane to D.C. that night, Bach would have been too raw, too dire. With Brahms, everything passes through l…
If you don't want to be a covidiot, spend some of your quatorzaine at home boning up on the new words about Miss Rona, from the Chinese tagline for social distancing to the German term for s…
Vu Le: "This is the problem. Our sector is afraid of advocacy, much less politics. And we have an absolute disgust for politics. We believe it is beneath us. We don't want to get our hands d…
"In one of the strangest art controversies in recent memory, a group of right-wing internet users and blogs have begun targeting Marina Abramović, accusing her of being involved in a Sat…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Florida Repertory Theatre's streaming theatrical webcast of its production of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2. Here's an excerpt.
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Liberace plays excerpts from the first movement of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. This performance is drawn from Sincerely Yours, a 1955 feature film directed by Gordon Douglas and s…
"Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them"the one, in fact, which is not a mask."
W.H. Aude…
The battle over the Postal Service has reached a critical stage. Now, others are stepping forward with suggestions for saving the agency that would utterly transform it, from privatizing the…
Calories in, energy out, right? If only it was that simple… " LitHub
"We have to write off 2020. It's already the year that didn't happen," says one top agent at one of the town's powerhouse firms who, like everyone reached by Vulture for this story, requeste…
Valence Media, which includes digital media brands like The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Vibe, is laying off 30% of its employees within its editorial division. " Axios
Much of what was going to happen in any case will now happen suddenly: publishing history is suddenly accelerated. The shift from print to digital at virtually all publications will be radic…
Every year since the mid-17th century, when a freak snowstorm stopped the shogun's enforcer and saved them from a death sentence, the people of the mountain hamlet of Damine have performed a…
"The floor plans should never have been affected by coronavirus to begin with. The museum should have released them " some semblance of them " months ago. Or how about a year ago, when a rev…
Earlier this month, with the Netherlands under COVID lockdown, raiders broke into a small museum and took van Gogh's Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring. Writer Daniel Dumas talks to two ex…
Bleak of course (how could it not be with all the cancellations?). On the other hand, reading through the data gives a sense of where the people who run theatres think they're headed. " Thea…
The story of how about 70 National Guardsmen managed to transform a convention center into an alternate health-care facility in mere days shows a state community coming together to get ahead…
"An exemplar of modern jazz improvisation, and arguably the most influential alto saxophone soloist after bebop progenitor Charlie Parker, … Konitz was one of the last jazz musicians of hi…
"Nothing will happen until jurisdictions relax regulations that currently don't allow gatherings of 20 or more people. Anticipating that will happen in a month or two, here are some of the k…
In the Ohio University School of Dance program, "students can specialize in specific populations, such as seniors or children in schools. The program aims to prepare grads for a range of car…
