Composer, ethnomusicologist and educator Halim El-Dabh died on September 2. The Egyptian-American musician was 96 years old, was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1921 and died in his home in Kent, Ohio. The son of…
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It’s been 100 days since the Trump administration announced its detailed federal budget proposal for 2018. For fans of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, this has been 100…
Pictured: Some of the 2017 Orlando Fringe artists. Applications for the 2018 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival are now available online. The Orlando Fringe is an unjuried (non-curated) festival for which participants are selected through…
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that it will award up to $1 million in emergency funding for humanities, culture, and arts organizations impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The funding will be able for emergency…
Agnes Wilcox, the founder of St. Louis, MO-based Prison Performing Arts, died on August 28. The actor and director-turned arts administrator was 70 years old. Wilcox taught on the faculty of Webster University and founded…
A promotional image for DUNGEON. The Minnesota Fringe Festival has announced the final statistics for its 2017 incarnation. Over 11 days, the festival attracted 46,076 butts in seats. Audiences saw 860 performances of 167 shows at 17…
The complete private membership of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities has resigned. The body, which has not met under the current presidential administration, is intended to advise the President of the United…
The American Boychoir School announced yesterday that it was closing immediately. The school, which was founded in 1937, performed under the name American Boychoir. It trained choirboys in Grades 4-8, and had suffered deep financial…
Pictured: Charles MacKay, the General Director of Santa Fe Opera. Susan G. Marineau, the President of Santa Fe Opera, announced at the company’s August Board of Directors meeting that General Director Charles MacKay has asked the…
Pictured: Diego Esmolo, Andrew Overton, Patrick Campbell, Conner Gilbert, Jason Quackenbush and Elad Ness in Red Branch Theatre Company’s Lysistrata Jones. If you like your Greek theatre topical, up-to-date and bawdy – and sung – Red Branch…