Because of cultural tradition, each audience brings specific expectations to a performance. Classical listeners, who are steeped in the European performance practices, have been conditioned …
Exploring the context in which the ballets arose offers insight into their complexity, and helps us question contemporary assumptions about the choreography, librettos, and music that have s…
Joao Ribas has recently worked as an independent curator and writer. In 2019 he was the commissioner and curator for the Pavilion of Portugal at the Venice Biennale and curator of a photogra…
"Dominic Cavendish fears that the woke wolves are beginning to police Shakespeare, and that ultimately they will apply a sort of politically correct censorship which will render the plays un…
Having spent 50 years theorizing about cities, he grew annoyed by how much time his fellow urbanists spend theorizing about cities. So he pulled on his wellies and went tromping out into the…
"You can read Volume 1 online and Volume 2 should be dropping any day now." The publication's mission? "Taco Bell Quarterly is the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters. We're…
We're witnessing a major shift in traditional social life, but it's not because we're always online, or because our tech is becoming conscious, or because we're getting AI lovers like Samant…
And it's not just the Trockaderos and Cinderella's mean stepsisters, either. Gilbert Bolden of New York City Ballet, James Whiteside of ABT, Bennet Gartside of The Royal Ballet, and Raffaele…
From virtual backgrounds to hide the dirty dished in your sink to AI-powered smoothing of video over iffy connections, video-conferencing services are trying to make the experience more vivi…
The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko, with music by Anthony Bolton and a libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey based on the book Death of a Dissident by Litvinenko's widow, premieres this J…
"Domingo is, indeed, irreplaceable " because the world no longer has a place for this particular kind of artist, who has done so much to help the field and so much to harm it. And it may wel…
"Home Office officials are to launch a consultation on legally forcing organisations to increase physical security at venues and train staff to respond to terrorist attacks, as well as putti…
Knives Out and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has said that Apple won't let the bad guys in movies use iPhones. "Apple… they let you use iPhones in movies but " and this is very pivot…
"The Ahmanson's gift program, which has paid for 114 paintings and 15 sculptures, is the backbone of the museum's widely admired European art collection." And why is that program being ended…
"Once I realized that that was the way this character was thought of, I just didn't want to participate in it anymore. … The character of Apu was done with love and pride and the best of i…
"Structural problems, such as Hollywood's persistent lack of women in positions of power and key creative roles, will take years to adequately address. Still, on top of the specific changes …
"[She] fled Hitler's Germany as a teenager and became a [multiple-]prize-winning poet in the United States, drawing on her family history for lyrical works about love, art, nature and loss, …
Laura Collins-Hughes talks to playwright Paula Vogel, director Mark Brokaw, and actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse talk about the original 1997 Off-Broadway production and why they've…
"[The exhibition] brought in 1,071,840 visitors over the four months it was on view. This figure easily smashed its previous attendance record of 540,000 visitors, which was held by a 2018 E…
"The deal they were working on " which called for the union, the American Guild of Musical Artists, to limit its public statements about the inquiry and for Mr. Domingo to pay the union $500…
Howard Keel sings Cole Porter's "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" in the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that a…
"The particular charm of marriage is the duologue, the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone till death breaks the record. It is this back-chat whic…
The English National Opera is having a tough old time, but the company is still capable of both daring and successful ventures, such as the new Luisa Miller, a Verdi rarity last staged in Lo…
Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler's wartime broadcasts with the Berlin …
Alla Kovgan's new film Cunningham not only shoots its dancers in three dimensions, but collages historic, two-dimensional black-and-white images in smaller sizes on the screen, often overlai…