The oldest collegiate a cappella group in the United States has gone co-ed. The 118-year-old Yale Whiffenpoofs admitted their first female member on Monday, February 19. The decision came 30 years after a Whiffenpoof member prominently called…
Author: Nadine Kadinsky
Left: Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley. Right: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. Photos courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the latest additions to its Official Presidential…
As the #MeToo movement continues to pick up steam, performing arts organizations around the country have started to take a long overdue look at harassment complaints new and old. Recent firings and departures that appear…
OPERA America magazine has announced the most-produced works by American opera companies for the 2016-2017 season. An unusual item in the list is the presence of a recently written opera, the transgender story As One, which describes…
Houston Grand Opera, one of the great opera companies of the United States, was hard-hit by Hurricane Harvey. Just like the Unsinkable Molly Brown, however, Houston Grand is not to be stopped: the company will…