A number of students playing in it thought so " and they felt dismissed, stonewalled, and sometimes threatened when they brought their concerns to festival management. (One student, not long…
As high-profile titles like Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Tenet" and "The New Mutants" gear up to hit the big screen, marking the first major films to open since theaters were forced to c…
Richard Lawson: "If the reason for my hesitancy to go to a restaurant or, when New York theaters are open, go see a movie is safety, then is it a bit, I don't know, morally compromised to re…
Among the artists whose works he bought, exhibited, and donated to museums (and to some of whom he paid regular stipends) were Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Mose Tolliver,…
"So reflexive is applause, it can be easy to forget how powerful it is, what makes it important enough to fake" in performances and sports events without live audiences. "Applause is a marve…
"We do not think we should exist, because we do not believe prisons should exist," says a member of Liberation Library, founded in 2015 in Chicago and serving incarcerated young people in Il…
The Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo houses more than 250,000 rolls of film and employed some of the continent's best film-restoration technicians. Over the 19 months since Bolsonaro ab…
"Jujamcyn Theaters, the operator of five Broadway houses, has sued its insurers for denying it millions of dollars that the theater company says it deserves as payment for the losses suffere…
Frans Hals's Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer (1626) was taken by robbers from a small museum south of Utrecht in 1988 and was not recovered for three years; it was pilfered again in 201…
"Just over a year ago, San Diego Opera gathered 40 opera industry artists and cutting-edge technology designers from around the country for a first-of-its-kind Opera Hack weekend, with the g…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review webcasts of Bucks County Playhouse's Zoom reading of Dear Liar and a staged performance by Florida Repertory Theatre of Twelfth Night. Here's an excer…
In my latest Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I discuss the many film scores that Bernard Herrmann wrote for directors other than Alfred Hitchcock. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â…
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading…
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson appears as the mystery guest on What's My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists are Hal Block, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. This…
"Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affection of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent." Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain Cont…
One of the primary benefits of this pandemic is that artists and arts organizations were all forced to experiment " even though they didn't feel ready. This wide-spread spirit of experimenta…
TV needs the movies. But as the pandemic has forced the closure of countless movie theaters, new questions have surfaced about how much the movies will need TV. " Variety
"More Americans are buying Bibles they read less " if ever " and reading Bibles they didn't buy because they're dipping into verses here and there online …, according to the findings in th…
For three years, 120 people are to receive 1,200 euros per month, and throughout the study period, they will be closely observed and frequently interviewed, as will the 1,380 members of the …
"The group allegedly circumvented copyright protections on nearly every movie released by major production studios, as well as television shows, and distributed them by way of a worldwide ne…
The Prison Music Project, which is a political and creative effort, is focused on centering the voices [and] stories of people who get entangled in the justice system, people who experience …
The campaign that was intended to celebrate the partnership of Gene Russell, a Black pianist and producer who died in relative anonymity in 1981, and Dick Schory, a White percussionist and a…
As many as 40 local television outlets and 200 Canadian radio stations could be forced to close in the next three years as the financial pressures faced by media companies intensify under th…
The Richmond Ballet is foregoing its annual cashflow lifeline because the piece simply involves too many people to be done safely while the pandemic continues. But the company's Studio Serie…
In the centuries prior to western industrialisation, stools or benches were common household furnishings, but chairs were special-occasion objects, usually the exclusive property of the weal…