Sounds like the Tanztheater Wuppertal might not be the easiest place to run: Adolphe Binder, who was dismissed in 2018 after only a year in the job, was the fourth person to run the troupe s…
Let Ivan Brunetti break it down for you: Comics are "an incantation beckoning us to enter their world. The simplicity of their superficial concision can reveal surprising density, layers, an…
Writer Abi Daré wasn't planning to deal with a new novel, and a normalized practice among middle-class families in Nigeria, when her 8-year-old wouldn't unload the dishwasher. But inspirati…
The answer, students say, is absolutely yes " and the #MeToo movement hasn't yet begun to filter through many conservatory halls. "Over the past year, The Atlantic talked to more than …
Le Carré, as he accepted the Olof Palme prize: "I want a Palme for my country, which in my lifetime hasn't produced a single statesman of his stamp. I want him now. I'm not just…
Well, this is interesting. As the series gets closer and closer to the present, perhaps some members of the Royal Family have expressed strong displeasure. One wonders. In any case: The role…
They're not at all the same " and the internet is more distracting from books than TV is " but: "As with classic unread novels, certain TV shows have begun to carry with them a hint of oblig…
All 56 of her books were bestsellers, according to her publisher. "In her memoir, Kitchen Privileges (2002), Ms. Higgins Clark described herself in her younger years as 'aching, yearning, bu…
Sure, there's been a lot of buzz around this Ivan van Hove production, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. But: "There's another buzz gathering around the show"and not becau…
Liz Garbus and Todd Phillips both won Sundance awards for documentaries in 1998, and they've both been working filmmakers ever since. But Phillips is about to go to the Oscars with an obscen…
Serkin, who "was descended from storied musical lineages on both sides of his family," seemed at an early age destined to follow their path. But he found the expectation a burden, and went o…
DirecTV must have seemed like a good deal in 2015. Now, it's absolutely hemorhagging subscribers " nearly 3 million last year alone. It's been a dizzying fall. "DirecTV was an invention of H…
Though we're not sure why they would, considering the book's sales, Slate takes a gander at what publishers are saying about #ownvoices books. Or, well, they're not; they mostly seem to thin…
Feldman took the classic doily craft and turned it into fashion and art. She sold her creations mostly "at Studio Del, a boutique she opened in 1965 on East Seventh Street in Manhattan's Eas…
It's not an easy line to walk, and there's a question of how far back they should go to "restore" the original work. Now, some conservation studios are also starting to work with contemporar…
Alexa Maxwell is the girlfriend of Amar Ramasar, the dancer who was fired, and then rehired, by City Ballet for his role in sharing nude photos and videos of dancers " including Maxwell. "'I…
So this is how Great Britain's time in the EU ends, not with a bang, but … "Edward Gregson, the British composer charged by Radio 4's PM programme with the tricky task of composing a piece…
While Disney wants to "integrate" Hulu into its own streaming services operations, Hulu isn't going anywhere " yet. "Hulu, known for original series such as the Emmy-winning The Handmaid's T…
The authors welcomed a drop in the proportion of white executives from 86% in 2015 to 78%, "since true change in company culture almost always requires buy-in from the very top". But the num…
How did Beethoven's work " its harmonies, its rhetoric, its formal ideas " become such an exclusive model for what classical music should sound like? What are we going to do to give other mo…
Classical Greek and Latin writing didn't use punctuation at all, or even spaces between words; that sort of thing was left to the person who'd be speaking the text. St. Isidore of Seville sy…
"I am discovering the possibility of the choreography coexisting with sound, maybe not being as dependent as I usually am. That opens a field I haven't really explored. But I don't have the …
Schoenberg and beauty are words that rarely occupy the same sentence. Arguably the most influential composer of all time, his fame derived from his abolition of tonality"the harmonic system …
The review comes at a perilous time for the BBC, with insiders and industry observers worried that the broadcaster is facing an existential crisis. As well as a hostile government, which is …
The Annapolis Symphony seeks a strong leader with excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated track record in fund-raising, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. The succe…