Art and Culture

Esa-Pekka Salonen | Credit: Cody PickensChanging the music director of a major symphony orchestra isn’t like a relay race, where the outgoing maestro just hands the baton to his successor. Now that it’s been announced that Esa-Pekka…
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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that he will put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if…
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The legislation would just require the app’s owner, the Chinese corporation ByteDance, to sell it some other entity that isn’t under the ultimate control of the Chinese Communist Party. ByteDance (and the Party) should be…
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A decade ago, the National Theatre was heavily redeveloped via the £85m NT Future project, which transformed the Cottesloe Theatre into the Dorfman, gave us the big scenic workshops you can see from street level, and vastly expanded its…
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The Vault Festival has announced that it’s closing for good after failing to secure the funding needed to relocate to a new site. Founded in 2012, the sprawling festival took its name from the Waterloo Vaults, an atmospheric warren of…
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Toronto is a city of festivals, but two years after pandemic restrictions were lifted, even big names in the sector are struggling to attract audiences, pay down debt and meet steeply rising costs of production. – Toronto Star…
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This April marks the 10-year anniversary of Bassem Youssef‘s final telecast of Al Bernameg. At its apex, the Egyptian satirical news show drew 40 million viewers and prompted comparisons between its host/co-creator and Jon…
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Ballet Ireland has dropped one of three pieces it was due to perform in Dublin later this month over the involvement of an Israeli choreographer in the work.In a statement released on Wednesday it said it was withdrawing the Minus 16…
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Grindr, Saghdar agus Cher is a modern play about hook-ups, dating apps and going on a bender. But the most current thing about it may be that the piece, staged by LGBTQ+ collective Aerach Aiteach Gaelach, is performed entirely in…
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