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The Classical Musician Who Wants Her Dress To Be As Beautiful As The Music She Plays

Yuja Wang: “If the music is beautiful and sensual, why not dress to fit? It’s about power and persuasion. Perhaps it’s a little sadomasochistic of me. But if I’m going to get naked with my music, I may as well be comfortable while I’m at it.”

A Director And Designer Resign Over Calgary Opera’s Plan To Cast A White Woman To Play A Tonkinese Role In ‘South Pacific’

Former Calgary Opera CEO Bob McPhee: “It’s an enormously sensitive topic, especially in the theatre world, and it is bleeding into the opera world. … So it’s not from a lack of wanting to be sensitive to the issue. I understand. But is there repertoire we stop doing if we can’t accomplish that goal?”

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Sets A Record At The Oliviers

The show had tied the record for nominations at 11 – and it won nine, which burst above the previous records set by “Matilda the Musical” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”

Dissident Graffiti Artist Danilo Maldonado Machado Talks About Art And Freedom In Cuba

Why does the artist, who was jailed for 10 months in 2014 for trying to release pigs with the names “Raúl” and “Fidel” on them in a public park, use humor? “People want to laugh. And with humor, you can demystify these people. They have these uniforms that they’ve invented for themselves, this status; with humor you can pick it apart.”

How Stephen Colbert Finally Learned To Win At ‘The Late Show’ (And It’s Not Just The Current Occupant Of The White House)

Basically, he got a production manager. “The deal was, he said, ‘Listen, let me make these decisions and don’t try to take them back from me,'” Mr. Colbert remembered. “And I said, ‘O.K., well, don’t debate with me what’s funny.'”

The Rebels Fighting New York’s 90-Year-Old Anti-Dancing Laws

Yes, that’s right: New Yorkers just want to have fun. “Members of the newly created Dance Liberation Network are battling, Footloose-style, for their right to cut loose — by rescinding the city law that bans busting a move in an establishment that doesn’t have a cabaret license.”

Comparing The Tonys And The Olivers Pretty Much Tells You How Well Transfers Across The Pond Work (Or Don’t)

Shows rarely impress on both sides of the Atlantic, though some transfer shows do even better in their second country than in their first.

Is It Possible To Separate A Brilliant British Artist From His Incestuous Abuse Of His Own Child?

The director of a museum mostly devoted to Eric Gill’s work held a series of workshops to discuss the various concerns. The director: “My view as a curator was: he’s an artist, and we show his work. I hadn’t felt it [his biography] would be an issue for us, until one day I found myself looking at work we would feel uncomfortable showing. There was one object in particular, and it really brought home the fact that Gill abused his daughters.”

Joanne Kyger, One Of The Women In Beat Poetry, Has Died At 82

Though there were women in the Beat movement, not many knew of them. “Along with Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman and several others, Ms. Kyger made her mark not only as a writer, but also as a member of the male-dominated post-World War II cultural movement.”

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