- San Francisco, Royal Opera record productions for the screen
- Taking a page from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera has announced it will begin screening its productions in cinemas. more »
- Windsor, Ont., gets debut fringe festival next July
- A group of Windsor artists has joined the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals and plans to stage its first fringe event next July. more »
- TV series to search high and low for Canadian Maria
- The cross-country search for a Canadian Maria von Trapp begins in January. more »
- U.S. theatre producers' group spotlights Broadway with new name
- The trade group behind the Tony Awards is bringing Broadway to the forefront by adopting a new name highlighting its connection to the Great White Way. more »
- Alberta Ballet dances to Tubular Bells in Calgary theatre festival
- Calgary's annual High Performance Rodeo will feature a new one-man show by Kids in the Hall alumnus Kevin McDonald and new work by the Alberta Ballet, set to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, this January. more »
- Cuban dancers make leap to freedom after Hamilton performance
- Three young Cuban dancers defected to the U.S. after a performance of the National Ballet of Cuba in Hamilton, Ont., Sunday night. more »
- Istanbul gets new 500-seat opera house
- A historic Istanbul building, finished in 1927 as an opera house but relegated to use as a movie theatre until 2005, has reopened as a 500-seat concert hall after a two-year renovation. more »
- Monsoon Wedding coming to Broadway stage
- Mira Nair, the New York-based director of the 2001 film Monsoon Wedding is developing the exotic family drama for the stage. more »
- Work underway on Winnipeg's Met Theatre
- Workers are upgrading the heating system at the old Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Winnipeg in anticipation of its renovation into the city's new rock and roll museusm. more »
Music »
- Feist, Arcade Fire on long list for U.S. emerging artist prize
- Canadian singer Feist and Montreal's Arcade Fire are among 54 artists being considered for the Shortlist Music Prize, a U.S. award for artists considered under-appreciated by a jury of music aficionados.
- Glastonbury co-founder Arabella Spencer-Churchill dies
- Arabella Spencer-Churchill, co-founder of the U.K.'s popular Glastonbury rock festival, children's charity activist and granddaughter of iconic former British prime minister Winston Churchill, has died at the age of 58.
- Kuerti looks forward to Boston conducting debut
- Julian Kuerti is take on conducting the Boston Symphony at Symphony Hall in Boston next March in one of four concerts he is scheduled to conduct in the coming year.
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TV »
- Sacha Baron Cohen bids Borat, Ali G goodbye
- British comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen is bidding farewell to the two alter egos that brought him international success: the dim-witted hip hop interviewer Ali G and uncouth reporter Borat.
- Stewart, Colbert join returning late-night hosts despite strike
- The popular political satire of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is heading back to the tube in January, joining other late-night programming returning to the air despite the film and TV writers' strike.
- Libraries urge Ottawa to consider consumers in drafting copyright law
- The Canadian Library Association is wading into the debate about copyright with a warning to Ottawa not to forget the rights of consumers.
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Books »
- Karl Rove sells memoir for more than $1.5M
- Republican strategist Karl Rove will dissect the presidency of George W. Bush in a memoir said to be worth more than $1.5 million US.
- Romance cuts across racial lines, publishers find
- Publishing houses across North American are creating new lines of romances aimed at people of Asian and African descent, according to Brian Miller, a Seattle journalist who follows the market for romance novels.
- Keep quiet and stay out of sight, India tells controversial writer
- India has told Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to either remain under government security or leave the country.
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Media »
- CanWest Global cleared to buy Alliance Atlantis
- CanWest Global Communications' $2.3-billion takeover of Alliance Atlantis has been approved by the CRTC.
- BCE takeover to face slight delay as CRTC schedules hearing
- The CRTC has decided to hold a public hearing into the proposed acquisition of BCE, the telecom giant and the regulator said late Thursday.
- Britney's 16-year-old sis Jamie says she's pregnant: report
- Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old Zoey 101 star and sister of Britney, told OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.
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Art & Design »
- Quebec City museum gets $37.5 million from Ottawa
- Ottawa has come up with $37.5 million for Quebec City's Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
- Critics paint over Banksy Bethlehem murals
- Though his intention was to shed light on the plight of Bethlehem residents, British graffiti artist Banksy has received a poor review of some of the artworks he has stencilled around the West Bank town.
- Russia OK's London art exhibit pending new British law
- Russia will permit paintings from its museums to go to London for a major exhibition after British legislation protecting art from seizure in lawsuits comes into force, the government culture agency said Friday.
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Film »
- Sacha Baron Cohen bids Borat, Ali G goodbye
- British comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen is bidding farewell to the two alter egos that brought him international success: the dim-witted hip hop interviewer Ali G and uncouth reporter Borat.
- People's Choice to pre-record annual awards
- Rather than roll out the red carpet, the organizers of the People's Choice Awards will offer a modified, pre-recorded version of its annual honours in response to the television and film writers' strike.
- Into the Wild leads SAG award nominations
- Sean Penn's road trip drama Into the Wild has won a leading four Screen Actors Guild nominations, including best actor for Emile Hirsch.
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