For one day only, tickets at the theaters will sell for 15 cents, roughly the equivalent of what it cost to watch a movie in 1920. That's the year that the company's founders, the Dubinsky B…
"As performer and developer of the guitar and its repertory " and as a leading reviver of the lute's Renaissance repertory " Bream, who has died aged 87, was one of the instrument's towering…
The greatest classical guitarist of the twentieth century died today. I reviewed one of his New York solo recitals for the Daily News back in the Nineties, and have never forgotten how wo…
The first two theater productions in the U.S. since lockdown to be approved by Actors' Equity for performing before an in-person audience, Godspell at Berkshire Theater Group and Harry Clark…
Venues must require audience members to wear masks and maintain social distance, but if those requirements are being met, then " "despite concerns about persistently high daily infection num…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I write about William Friedkin's 1970 screen version of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * You can count…
Art Carney and Garson Kanin are interviewed on The Bill Boggs Show in 1979: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wed…
"I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only w…
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"Singing in a room for an extended period of time, in close contact with lots of people and no ventilation " that's a recipe for disaster," says Shelly Miller, a professor at the University …
The latest figures for 2019 represent a slowdown in the growth of the number of completed projects seen each year since 2016, as well as the fourth consecutive drop in the number of announce…
Hollywood has been unable to restart production on its own soundstages in California because of surging infections in the state, plodding negotiations with unions over protocols and the time…
The non-profit organisation High Line Art, which commissions public art projects on and around the elevated park in Chelsea, launched a platform of artist proposals this week, and says that …
"I served as an external adviser and peer reviewer for the museum over several years. The current crisis may be shocking, but it's a predictable consequence of the museum's history of separa…
"There's a cost to living; there's a cost to doing everything. That cost depends on the speed at which we're living, to some degree. If we are living our lives at a very fast rate, we tend t…
ErtuÄŸrul, a five-season dizi (that's Turkish for telenovela-crossed-with-historical-epic) about the father of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, "is now so popular that it has been dubbed…
Starting August 20th, AMC plans to have more than 100 theaters open, and it says it will continue opening locations "such that about two-thirds of our theatres across the country should be o…
Nathalie Bondil was ousted on 13 July by the museum's board of directors, which cited "disturbing" reports from staff members about a "toxic" workplace atmosphere. The dismissal followed an …
Yung Phil and his crew Turf Feinz may work the BART trains in and around San Francisco, but only between gigs for commercials, music videos, and concert tours. "We're using [the subways] as …
More than 5,000 visual artists from around the world are based here, according to statistics compiled by city authorities. Despite high-profile closures, there are still more than 300 galler…
It also helps explain the Swedish policy response to Covid-19 " banning gatherings over 50, encouraging home working and social distancing, shielding of vulnerable groups, while keeping soci…
As you might guess, that's not the name of any real person. Jim Crow was, arguably, the original minstrel show character. The performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-1860) didn't invent minstr…
"Now several companies are attempting variations on what is sometimes called promenade theater " outdoor productions in which audiences move as they follow the action. The form " a cousin to…
"What sometimes gets obscured is the fact that many online-censorship decisions are made not by powerful actors" " for instance, senior execs at Facebook or Twitter " "imposing their will on…
Many of the criticisms levelled at exams as a framework for learning and a means of assessment have validity. There have been valiant attempts over the years to provide a balance between for…