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I just spoke on the phone to Mrs. T's nurse, who passed on a report from her doctors about her condition at midday Sunday. It now appears that she is holding her own"her blood pressure is do…
Despite her nomination being rejected by Downing Street last year, the British Museum appointed her anyway. "The Cambridge don, who will take up the role for an initial period of four years …
Remember last fall and winter? Well, there were plans: "Months ago, in what now feels like another era, publishers planning their 2020 schedules hoped to avoid releasing books in the fall, t…
There's no touring, no practicing for Coachella, no videos filming. There's nothing. "As the entertainment business comes to a halt, commercial dancers and choreographers " the performers…
Not everyone is happy about this. "Opponents of LACMA's building project have zeroed in on county funding that includes $117.5 million released last April, arguing that the money should b…
Bosé won the Miss Italy beauty pageant in 1947, which eventually led to her acting career. She worked with Italian neorealists, Jean Cocteau, Juan Antonio Bardem, Federico Fellini and many …
Could some of this be the future of online theatre? "In response to this crisis, Actors Equity Association created a new, temporary streaming agreement available for select produ…
Why now? "As an adult, I've try to keep my performing past under wraps. Being a theater nerd was never cool to begin with, but … polite society seems to find something sad about being nost…
Daniels, once a leading countertenor and now facing a separate criminal charge for sexual assault in Texas, "was deemed not eligible for severance pay. According to the university, Daniels i…
Despite petitions with thousands of signatures and attempts at local legislation, many galleries aren't eligible for small business loans and other relief. "April 1 is quickly approaching an…
Ben Brantley: "Remember that plays " even those lofty classics that show up on college reading lists " are meant to be spoken and heard. And saying their lines aloud, no matter how clumsily,…
So what are they doing instead of booking, acting, producing, and bartending? Hosting livestreamed music classes for kids in the morning and asking watchers to donate $5 if they have it; bui…
Despite a $25 million stimulus package for the Kennedy Center, the musicians of the NSO were told late Friday night that their April 3 paycheck would be their last, and their health care wou…
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest and largest American nonprofit theaters and a popular travel destination, said on Friday that it would lay off 80 percent of its 500 employ…
But with live performances suspended by the coronavirus pandemic, we classical music critics decided to take matters into our own hands and create our dream cycle, featuring our favorite rec…
The rise of night mayors after 2012 followed the recognition by many cities that they largely ignored what many called their nighttime economies. Those who worked in the nighttime entertainm…
Sandy, as listeners called him, spoke like a reassuring, relatable friend. "Sandy Macpherson's quiet voice is very reassuring at a time when our ears are on the alert for warning sirens," on…
"These are not the end times, I mean, but nor are they business as usual, and we would do well to understand that not only is there room for a middle path between these, but indeed there is …
Jill Lepore: "The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, and leaves only the animal. "Farewell to …
"With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre visited Jamaican dance halls, Brazilian favelas, Appalachian churches, Egyptian temples, South African workers' hostels and Bollywood soundst…
The necessary response to the pandemic has, after all, intensified huge swaths of the population's pre-pandemic situations. The economically and medically fragile are at new risk; the cloist…
In a project called "One on One", the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, known as one of the most innovative in Russia, will let 850 people (as many as the auditorium could hold) register for a …
"There's a symbolism and communications problem if you're starting to inflict loss and suffering on your staff. If Peter Gelb or Deborah Rutter start to, and need to, lay off lots of people …
Tuany Nascimento grew up in Complexo do Alemão, a poor and often dangerous group of hillside slums in Rio de Janeiro. She studied dance with hopes of becoming a professional ballerina, a …
"Anticipating lost revenues of more than $5 million because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced it will immediately furlough all part-time staff and temporaril…
