Art and Culture

Like any other building from 1971, or a democracy created in 1776, the Kennedy Center could use some attention and possibly some structural repair. But I was a vice president at that arts center in Washington, and I can tell you that…
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New York will increase its direct support to artists, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Cultural Affairs commissioner Diya Vij announced today. Rising from $5,000 to up to $10,000, the increase doubles the funds given to artists and…
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Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Under…
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Before Harmonium of Texas played a single note, the audience for its debut concert showered the musicians with thunderous applause and cheers.The new orchestra premiered Friday night with a well-attended performance at the Lila Cockrell…
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From flash photography and loud ringtones to texting on glaring screens, theatre performers have never faced so many potential distractions.But while actors have largely directed their ire at audiences using mobile phones, a new source…
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“Theater is so hard to do for so many reasons,” says one actor in the renovated Olney Theatre. He’s pleased “to see an actual new facility come up out of the ground, and to see talent and audience members come…
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I went to San Antonio in 2024 to eat my way through what is possibly one of the most underrated (yet still up-and-coming) food scenes in the country right now. Food trips require a lot of stops at coffee shops to take a mental…
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In mid-September, I watched as Liz Harris soundchecked to 1,500 empty seats at midtown Manhattan’s historic Town Hall theatre. Soon each plush red chair would be filled for the second of two sold-out nights, but this ornate seclusion…
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Mazzullo was “an Italian actor who for more than 40 years provided the endearing voice of the floppy-eared mouse puppet Topo Gigio, a TV character beloved by children all over the world,” not to mention by Ed Sullivan.…
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