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Let's look more closely at the anatomy of boredom. Why is it so damned boring to be stuck in a departure lounge while our flight is increasingly delayed? We are in a state of high arousal, a…
Lily Janiak, the only theatre critic in the entire Bay Area to have a staff position, writes about her friend and colleague Sam Hurwitt, who was earning all too little money before the law A…
That's not a typo. The country's total movie ticket revenue for the past 20 days is down from $1.52 billion for the same period last year to $3.9 million, and the movie industry there may ne…
The 81-musician orchestra, based in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk (a few hundred miles northeast of where the borders of Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia meet), was to have made a t…
"Stories of visitors praying or breaking down in tears before the portraits circulated on social media." (Not unlike Jerusalem or Lourdes.) Says the director of the National Portrait Gallery…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the off-Broadway premiere of a new musical version of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Here's an excerpt.
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Peggy Lee sings "Them There Eyes" and "But Beautiful" on The Andy Williams Show, after which she, Williams, and George Gobel do a trio version of "You Are My Sunshine." This episode was o…
"I used to be surprised and shocked because old people accepted the calamities and deaths of their old friends with seeming equanimity. Now I realise that, had they not done so, they would h…
"A group dedicated to protecting the German capital's nightlife took its campaign to parliament on Wednesday, urging more protection as more venues are closed to make way for new-builds and …
The shock announcement by the 21-member board of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema " the organization overseeing the Cesar Academy " comes on the heels of industry-wide backlash fo…
Visitors to the site can browse reconstructions that date back as early as 1200 BCE, the Mycenaean period " or Bronze Age " through Classical Athens, featuring the rebuilds made necessary…
Designed for the working professional, the M.A. in Arts Administration from Goucher College allows you to live and work wherever you are while you learn from national arts leaders.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has vowed to act after an independent review of one of its leading degree programmes highlighted allegations of "bullying, favouritism and misuse of autho…
The script was first produced by the Negro Ensemble Company (Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and David Alan Grier were in the cast) back in 1982, and Fuller never did anything like it …
The web favors certain virtues"wit, weirdness, bombast, and urgency"over others. In real time, we've witnessed critics watch their well-crafted essays sink to the internet's depths like a st…
Folks like to joke that there's just too much TV to watch, but rarely do they back it up with facts. Now, they can. According to new data from Nielsen, there were 646,152 unique programs ava…
"He said, 'You have to promise me you won't go into work today. I just could tell by the tone. I said, 'I'm going to be able to dance again, right?' And he said to me, 'Well, we're just goin…
"[She] began her career in the 1960s performing with the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle dance companies … [and] became a leading black performer on Broadway … and later tu…
In the first half of the twentieth century, especially after the calamity of the Great Depression, the conventional wisdom held that the power of corporations must be held in check by other …
Two bookstores in England are offering book(s)-of-the-month services in which, after some discussion with the customer, a knowledgeable staffer selects and ships books the staffer thinks the…
The much-discussed "death of the snob" in the internet era explains part of the shift on display. Even though some High Fidelity"style shops catering to vinyl collectors have survived the ex…
"As scholar in residence, [Naomi] André acts as an adviser to help Seattle Opera become more inclusive, both for audiences and behind the scenes. … Her most visible role involves a series…
The sad truth is that the novel now doesn't occupy the same cultural high ground, and it doesn't typically feel to readers like a practical device for addressing problems. The decline of the…
With a public outcry having convinced Radio New Zealand's management not to eviscerate its classical service, advocates for the country's MÄori-language radio stations are arguing that th…
"The RNZ board has backed down on the decision to take Concert off the FM transmission. The move comes after widespread criticism from the arts community and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's …
