Art and Culture

In theatre – and across dance, opera, musicals and concerts – the stage manager is like the air traffic controller of the production. Without them, chaos would ensue, yet they rarely get acknowledged. – ArtsHub Source link
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Gustavo Dudamel Having attended all eight programs Gustavo Dudamel conducted last season as the New York Philharmonic’s Music Director Designate (in order to turn them into a piece for The New York Review of Books pondering the…
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Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. (Photo courtesy of the ASO) Nathalie Stutzmann, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, was chosen to conduct Richard Wagner’s early opera, Rienzi, in July and August at…
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Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale…
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Ben Affleck used AI “for lots of things” in his upcoming Netflix thriller Animals, he said Wednesday at Bloomberg‘s 2026 Screentime event. Not that he’s going to tell you which things. “I used for lots of things in that movie.…
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This week Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Left-wing Mayor, astonished his conservative critics by doing something they wish they’d thought of. He announced that the city is paying for 70,000 tickets to the Metropolitan Opera, to…
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ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Jacksonville Symphony in the search for a Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer. Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President/Chief…
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Good Morning, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is paying for 70,000 Metropolitan Opera tickets to be given away by lottery, and a conservative columnist says the Right should be embarrassed that a self-proclaimed socialist thought of…
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The central characters from bull tales would develop into the strip’s central figures—B.D., the always-pro-American and eventual volunteer soldier in Vietnam and Iraq (two tours); the enthusiastic nerd-loser Michael Doonesbury; the…
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When Japanese short-form poetry found its way into the Hungarian language and poetic tradition, there was a collapsing of distinction, as various short forms all came to be known under the singular label haiku. In this essay,…
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