"[Lyndsey Winship] talked to dancers and choreographers [Shobana Jeyasingh, Céline Gittens, and Final Bow for Yellowface co-founders Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin] about ballet's slow pa…
In overruling the lower court's injunction barring Netflix from continuing to stream The First Temptation of Christ, Supreme Federal Court President José Antonio Dias Toffoli said, "One can…
A rare 1995 TV interview with the film composer Jerry Goldsmith, originally telecast by The Movie Channel as part of its "Take One" series: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and histo…
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all." Ray Bradbury, "The Queen's Own Evaders, an Afterword"
For his album Long Waves, the Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist assembles a group of contemporaries to play his compositions and a couple of cherished standard songs. Ambrosetti's fluid im…
OCAD U seeks Black candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences inform a deep commitment through their work to intersectional Black communities and whose theoretical, technical…
Relaxed performance " an approach to performance that challenges what have developed as strict expectations and codes for audience and performer engagement and behaviour " is making theatre …
The glasses are aimed at D/deaf audiences and offer personal captioning, flashing the production's dialogue in front of the wearer's eyes as the actors say it. They were developed by the NT …
Artists are expected to make work about fighting climate change and fascism, or promoting gay rights, Piotr Bernatowicz says. "Artists who do not adopt this ideology are marginalized," he sa…
What are people looking to do? The most popular searches, by one analysis, range from the achingly prosaic to the exceedingly specific"from "how to kiss" to "how to make a rainbow-loom starb…
Yuan Yuan Tan wasn't even intending to join the company back in 1995, but no principal dancer in the history of the company has lasted as long. " San Francisco Chronicle
The lack of progress in adversarial philosophical exchange might rest on a simple but problematic division of labour: in professional settings such as talks, seminars and papers, we standard…
We are now in the mature stage of a book-to-film boom that is quietly transforming how Americans read and tell stories"and not for the better. The power of this force is hard to quantify bec…
None of us are good listeners all the time. It's human nature to get distracted by what's going on in your own head. Listening takes effort. Like reading, you might choose to go over some th…
Yes, classical music types have rolled their eyes at dead-Maria Callas and dead-Glenn Gould tours, but rock is another matter. Since the long-departed Tupac Shakur (re-)appeared at the 2012 …
Pugh founded Ballet Memphis in 1986 with two dancers and a $75,000 budget. The organization grew over the years and now has a company of 21 dancers and a four-million-dollar budget. It al…
As reporter Jeffrey Brown visited the headquarters of the Agency of Artists in Exile, "an Ethiopian man belted out a traditional song with accompaniment from this phone. Across the hall, a Y…
By being thrust forward in time at warp speed over the last few decades " fueled by seriously cranked-up air-conditioning and the bountiful oil production from beneath their deserts that beg…
Writer and dramaturg Loren Noveck was skeptical of the Play On Shakespeare project, and not because she's a purist: "The Bard," perhaps the paradigmatic Dead White Male, takes up so much spa…
"First published, in English, in 2008, [Mohammed Hanif's] A Case of Exploding Mangoes is a dark satire about the possible reasons for the death of [dictator] General Zia [ul-Haq] in a plane …
"[He] created the satirical spy sitcom Get Smart with Mel Brooks, was a frequent early host of Saturday Night Live and turned plastics into a countercultural catchword with his Oscar-nominat…
"One series will include books for middle-school readers inspired by Time Trials, a set of videos from the National Museum of American History that introduces figures from the past, like the…
"[Samantha] Barbash alleges her character and likeness have been exploited and is seeking $20m compensation and $20m in punitive damages. Court documents show Barbash is targeting production…
"The sepulchre of Frederick (Friedrich) III, emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493, the greatest monument in Vienna's cathedral of St Stephen's, in the city's historic centre, has been s…
She had two hits onstage (Murray Schisgal's All About Town and Terrence McNally's The Ritz) and numerous flops, adoring profiles in The New York Times and People magazine, three criminal tri…