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fromVulture
2 hours ago

The Twist in The Drama Is Not the Problem

The film features a controversial plot twist involving a character's past plan for a school shooting, sparking significant online speculation and backlash.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Curated chaos': Danny Boyle on the pop culture spectacular' he's bringing to London's Southbank Centre

Danny Boyle's 'You Are Here' celebrates 75 years of youth culture with a one-day immersive event featuring 1,000 performers at London's Southbank Centre.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

how lachlan turczan reshapes matter by bending light and water in atmospheric installations

Lachlan Turczan's practice sits in the space between physics, optics, and environmental art, as he works with lasers, water, mist, and custom-built lenses to produce sculptures made entirely from light.
Berlin music
Paris food
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 days ago

Disney Adventure World debuts at Disneyland Paris as World of Frozen opens

Disneyland Paris has opened World of Frozen, part of the rebranding of its second theme park to Disney Adventure World.
fromDefector
4 days ago

For Now, ABS Makes Good Theater | Defector

Under the ABS challenge system, a team begins each game with two challenges. If a player gets an umpire's call overturned, their team retains the challenge. In effect, this means a team has unlimited challenges until they get two wrong.
Boston Red Sox
#london-theatre
London food
fromTime Out London
4 days ago

The 10 best new London theatre openings in April 2026

April features notable revivals and new productions in London theatre, including classics and avant-garde performances.
Music production
fromPitchfork
4 days ago

Nobody's Chosen: An Interview With Sideshow

Sideshow's album TIGRAY FUNK addresses societal issues through personal experiences and a unique musical fusion of G-funk and Ethiopian influences.
fromArchDaily
4 days ago

Choreographing Lagos: Dele Adeyemo on Dance, Cosmology, and Spatial Practices

Eshu's proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects from the past with present actions.
Social justice
NYC music
fromQueerty
5 days ago

Constantine Rousouli dishes on taking Titanique to Broadway, Celine Dion's gayest song & his Titanic hot take - Queerty

Titanique, a Celine Dion-themed musical parody of Titanic, is set to open on Broadway after a successful run since its LA debut in 2017.
#theatre
Arts
from48 hills
1 day ago

Drama Masks: Mad, bad, and dangerous to see - 48 hills

The experience of attending performances can evoke feelings of isolation and scrutiny, especially for those who stand out in a predominantly different crowd.
Arts
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

This L.A. play wants you to feel the story viscerally - by keeping you blindfolded

Theatre Obscura L.A. launched 'Poe: Pulse & Pendulum,' a sensory experience using blindfolds to enhance fear and anticipation in modern adaptations of Poe's stories.
London politics
fromIndependent
1 week ago

Tycoons ride to Michael Flatley's rescue in battle for control of 'Lord of the Dance'

Maurice Regan and Luke Comer intervened financially for Michael Flatley in the Lord of the Dance control dispute.
Film
fromWIRED
2 days ago

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

A seven-and-a-half-hour film screening challenges modern attention spans, highlighting a cultural shift in viewing habits and the struggle for sustained focus.
NYC music
fromTime Out New York
5 days ago

Review: Two friends makes a great escape in Mexodus ()

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson create a musical that highlights the historical escape of enslaved Black people to Mexico.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Guardian view on new musicals: sex, drugs and song n' dance | Editorial

Trainspotting the Musical adapts Irvine Welsh's novel, showcasing the evolution of stories from books to stage with contemporary themes.
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 day ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
Film
fromJezebel
2 days ago

'The Drama' Is Worth the Secrecy

Kristoffer Borgli's film explores dark human impulses through a pre-wedding gathering that reveals unsettling secrets among friends.
fromBronx Times
1 week ago

Teatro Fest NYC returns a spotlight on Latino performers with 24 shows citywide - Bronx Times

Teatro Fest NYC returned for its 11th year earlier this month, celebrating a history of Latinx identity and performance through 24 unique and original shows.
NYC music
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

How Yuval Sharon and Es Devlin are using cutting-edge tech to push opera forward-just when it needs it most

People all saw that there is something new is being attempted here that you've just got to see. I think that is its own reward. In an era where New York's storied Met Opera has faced layoffs, pay cuts, postponed productions, and a controversial financial agreement with Saudi Arabia, forward-thinking artistic direction becomes essential for survival.
Berlin music
NYC LGBT
fromLondon On The Inside
3 weeks ago

See New Queer Performance Art at the ICA

Cardion Arts presents Cardion Nights: Queer Performance, featuring diverse LGBTQIA+ artists and raising funds for akt, a UK charity supporting homeless young queer and trans people.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Wherefore art thou?': France look to restore identity with outing to Romeo and Juliet

France's rugby coach takes players to Paris Opera to reset mentally after a disappointing loss to Scotland and seven weeks of isolated training camp preparation.
Paris food
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Trapezes and artists: world's oldest circus restored to original glory in Paris

Cirque d'Hiver, the world's oldest circus, discovered hidden 19th-century painted canvas panels beneath its interior after 70 years, prompting complete restoration to its original 1852 glory.
Berlin music
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

POV: Ballet and opera institutions need to get radical to stay relevant

Opera and ballet remain deeply embedded in contemporary culture, with the barrier to engagement being perception and institutional presentation rather than the art forms themselves.
London music
fromconsequence.net
2 weeks ago

Rosalia's "LUX Tour 2026" Is a Dramatic Five-Act Visual Spectacle: Setlist + Video

Rosalia's LUX TOUR 2026 launched with an elaborate five-act production featuring theatrical visuals, diverse costumes, and a 25-track setlist showcasing songs from her acclaimed album LUX alongside previous hits.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 weeks ago

New program connects schools with Disney's musical magic

Through Disney Musicals in Schools' Stage Connect, educators are given free resources like show scripts, music tracks and training that give them the confidence they need to produce a school musical. The program makes musicals and bringing the magic of Disney into public schools more accessible for all.
Education
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Empreintes review Jess and Morgs go off-piste at Paris Opera and Marcos Morau sets the chandelier swinging

Arena explores competition and conformity in digital culture through innovative choreography and live camerawork at the Palais Garnier, examining how social media surveillance affects individual identity.
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
2 weeks ago

An Interview with William Joys | Berlin Art Link

Theater exposes hidden power dynamics through the body's presence, with artist William Joys exploring these relations through 'The Actress' character who transgresses social hierarchies and blurs distinctions between subject and object.
Humor
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Actor, director establish Trust' going into TheatreWorks production

Director Jeffrey Lo and actor William Thomas Hodgson collaborate effectively through intentional exploration, detailed character work, and a shared commitment to avoiding conventional theatrical choices in rehearsals for Primary Trust.
London music
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

You can see six incredible plays at the Barbican for free this month - and you'll be the only audience member

Theatre for One offers free five-minute Irish plays performed individually to single audience members in a booth at the Barbican Centre during its main theatre refurbishment.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 weeks ago

Experience Theatre Project immerses audiences in stories * Oregon ArtsWatch

Alisa Stewart founded Experience Theatre Project after experiencing immersive theater, creating participatory productions that transform audiences into active participants rather than passive observers.
Music
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Opera Locos - Sadler's Wells Review

The Opera Locos makes classical opera accessible to general audiences by blending famous operatic arias with rock and pop hits using comedy, physical theatre, and steampunk aesthetics.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Actor, director establish 'Trust' going into TheatreWorks production

Director Jeffrey Lo and actor William Thomas Hodgson collaborate effectively through intentional exploration, detailed character work, and a shared commitment to avoiding conventional theatrical choices.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Shakespeare's Globe launches environmental playwright prize

Shakespeare's Globe launches a climate playwriting prize for 2026 to inspire societal shifts toward a restorative relationship with nature through storytelling and theatre.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Edinburgh international festival will explore America's creativity and cruelty, says director

Edinburgh International Festival's 2024 program features the largest presentation of American artists in festival history, celebrating US creativity while confronting its systemic cruelty and hypocrisy amid Trump's presidency.
fromHarper's BAZAAR
1 month ago

Van Cleef & Arpels' "Dance Reflections" Bridges the Past and the Future of Dance

With 'Dance Reflections,' the idea was to give back concretely to another discipline that still gives us a lot. It's the reason why 'Dance Reflections' is a sponsorship program, but also a curatorial program; that's quite rare for a brand to have.
Miscellaneous
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

'Completely bowled us over': The horror show drawing thousands to an SF theater

In a full house at the 1,025-seat Toni Rembe Theater, there was an eruption of gasps and shrieks. The grown man to my right reflexively gripped the arm of my seat, sheepishly muttering an apology. In a distant aisle, I spotted one person get up and run out of the theater, their friend trailing closely behind.
Film
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Marty Supreme's ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme parallels competitive table tennis with Broadway theatre, exploring ambition, failure, and comeback through interconnected narratives of a ping-pong player and a returning film star.
Media industry
fromMission Local
1 month ago

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Video games
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

I went to the new Punchdrunk show and I'm not allowed to review it but here are some things I can tell you about it anyway

Lander 23 is a mission-based immersive 'stealth exploration' live-action game from Punchdrunk that splits players into teams to harvest an alien resource with objectives and scoring.
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Theatre of catastrophe: the hard-hitting play about France's Grenfell moment

The 2018 Rue d'Aubagne building collapse exposed Marseille's deep urban inequality and sparked civic solidarity, protests, evacuations, and artistic response.
Design
fromdesign-milk.com
2 months ago

CONTRIBUTIONS Pairs Objects With Soundscapes in Paris

Sound operates as a structural element in exhibitions, making objects interactive instruments that reshape perception and connect craft traditions across time.
Berlin
fromBerlin Art Link
2 months ago

Preview of transmediale Festival 2026 | Berlin Art Link

transmediale reframes technology and internet discourse through Tropical Belt metaphors, inviting participatory regional research, community infrastructures, and alternative cosmologies.
#broadway
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

From playwright to stage manager

Self-generating AI interfaces require structured constraints like A2UI to prevent chaotic, unusable experiences and shift designers from deterministic blueprints to probabilistic protocols.
fromMbtn
1 month ago

Take Your Seats

So another word about tickets. They did finally announce single-game tickets were going on sale, but only for games though June. It's not enough to keep season plans limited to those requiring fans to buy more tickets than they can use, feeding the secondary markets which the Mets also get a cut of, but "make-your-own-plan" fans like me who've reliably occupied seats for decades,
New York Mets
fromwww.thelocal.fr
2 months ago

15 art exhibitions to look forward to in France in 2026

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (19082004) travelled all over the world and extensively throughout Europe. After producing numerous series of photographs for magazines in Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Switzerland and France, Cartier-Bresson wanted to bring them together in a book and in 1955, he published Les Europeens (The Europeans). This book of photographs aims to show what makes each of the peoples of this geographical area unique while highlighting their similarities. This exhibition brings together some of the most important photographs from the book.
Photography
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

amBroadway | Moulin Rouge!' to end Broadway run and more | amNewYork

After seven years, thousands of rhinestones, and one very resilient windmill, Moulin Rouge! The Musical will close on Broadway on Sunday, July 26, 2026. The Tony Awardwinning musical will end its run at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after 2,265 regular performances and 24 previews. Based on the 2001 film of the same name, the stage adaptation opened on July 25, 2019just months before the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020resumed performances in the fall of 2021, and went on to win 10 Tony Awards,
Music
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Futurist Vision of Pierre Huyghe Circles Back to Old Tropes

Pierre Huyghe's Liminals presents a faceless, vulnerable white woman within AI-driven bio-tech environments, producing pronounced cognitive dissonance despite ambitious institutional framing.
Music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Review: Hershey Felder delivers a brilliant story about Hershey Felder

Hershey Felder's piano symbolizes personal freedom, family history, curiosity, and his embodiment of composers through performance and storytelling.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

DramaWatch: Memory, meta-theater and musicals * Oregon ArtsWatch

Portland stages a diverse slate of theater and musicals this season, spanning meta-theater, classic revivals, immersive reinterpretations, and contemporary indie productions.
Film
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Let me entertain you

Covid-19 pushed entertainment and brands to innovate, shifting releases and creating digital experiences to maintain connection and reach audiences.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's not a documentary': costume designers on ditching accuracy for spectacle

Contemporary, anachronistic costume design prioritizes storytelling and spectacle over historical accuracy, blending modern and historical influences to create bold, playful visuals.
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#cirque-du-soleil
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Florian Zeller, playwright, filmmaker and magnet for acting greats: I don't write what people like, but what they could like'

Every step that I have taken in my career has made me new to something, once again. I like not knowing everything and exposing myself to the unknown, he says. That same impulse led him to send a script for the film adaptation of The Father to Anthony Hopkins, an actor he had never met, and who Zeller would wind up directing in his cinematic debut, which won him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and netted Hopkins his second Oscar for best actor.
Film
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

At a clown school near Paris, failure is the lesson

The Ecole Philippe Gaulier trains performers to embrace clowning through vulnerability, ridicule, and deliberate failure, prioritizing 'finding your idiot' over jokes.
#mixed-reality
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Going Under the Radar' with international experimental theater amNewYork

Two years ago, the annual Under the Radar festival (which showcases international, experimental and multidisciplinary theater) was unexpectedly canceled by the Public Theater, its longtime presenter, due to financial issues. In response, the festival was quickly reconceived as a citywide effort involving several other theater companies, allowing it to move forward. The festival, now in its 21st edition, returns this month with productions at theaters across the city from Jan. 7 to 25.
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fromTime Out London
2 months ago

Immersive theatre town experience Phantom Peak is opening a new venue in London

Phantom Peak will close its Canada Water outpost in February 2026 and relocate to a larger Stratford venue opening summer 2026.
Arts
fromLondon On The Inside
2 months ago

The Best Theatre Shows On in London in 2026

London's 2026 theatre season features major West End transfers, star-led productions, celebrated venues, and diverse experimental and immersive performances.
Arts
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

Under the Radar 2026: what NYC's boldest theater fest is

Under the Radar presents 31 adventurous, genre-defying theater and performance works across four boroughs, emphasizing experimental, in-progress pieces and vibe-based programming.
Arts
fromArtforum
2 months ago

Blame Game

Molière's comedies are being revived in contemporary theater to critique cultural elites and prompt self-reflection within arts philanthropy and performance.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 month ago

The Sex Lives of Puppets at Stanford | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

Worries, fears, hang-ups, and desires are translated through highly skilled puppetry, as interview scenes cast puppet couples talking about their sex lives. Written by Mark Down of Blind Summit, a cohort of exceptional makers and puppeteers expanding the definition of a puppet, this collaboration with the UK's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles pulls from real-life conversations to get puppets talking dirty.
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fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Review of Colomboscope 'Rhythm Alliances' | Berlin Art Link

Colomboscope's 'Rhythm Alliances' used cultural diplomacy and a Berlin–Colombo network to convene 50 South Asian artists, fostering fragile creative alliances and collective resistance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's a fun cocktail!': the Wooster Group's head-spinning blend of high and low art

Spalding Gray used to perform a show called Interviewing the Audience. The celebrated monologist would invite a stranger he had met in the lobby to join him on stage. Through a sequence of innocuous questions, he would get them to open up about their lives. At one performance, a guest broke the audience's hearts by talking about her daughter's murder. At benefit nights, people living with HIV shared their tales. Other times, the anecdotes would be eccentric or amusing.
Arts
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

London's biggest theatre to be built and it's not in the West End

At Troubadour, we are driven by a belief in creating extraordinary spaces that inspire artists, audiences, and the stories they come together to share. The 3,000 seat venue is to be built in Greenwich Securing planning permission for the new Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula Theatre marks a major milestone for us, and an exciting new chapter in our commitment to bold, large-scale live performance.
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fromwww.london-unattached.com
2 months ago

London City Ballet Unveils 2026 Season

London City Ballet's revival under Christopher Marney has quickly become a leading mid-size touring company, expanding nationally and internationally with an ambitious 2026 season.
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