What matters most to Fu, however, is the connection she builds with her customers. Her first outing, in August 2025, featured ...

An actor performs Sichuan Opera face-changing during an event celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 13, 2026. [Photo provided by Chen Wei/Xinhua] With its colorful ...

T he state of higher education today could be summed up by a line from Hamlet: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” T he state of higher education today could be summed ...

The opera and ballet communities are firing back at Timothée Chalamet after the “Marty Supreme” star said during “A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event” that he didn’t want theatrical movie going to end up ...

Timothée Chalamet sparked backlash online after the actor declared he had no interest “working in ballet or opera,” seemingly suggesting “no one cares” about the fine art forms. “I don’t wanna be ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has started military action against Iran to destroy its nuclear and missile capabilities and to topple the regime. The brief June 2025 conflict is a poor guide to what is ...

Mounting an opera has never been easy. Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972, once offered this observation: “To make successful opera in New York you do ‘Carmen ...

Jewish comedy is, of course, a long and vaunted tradition: Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Larry David. No one had to tell audiences that they were Jewish. Sure, there was Jewish ...

Rain did not deter the 4S Ranch Library from hosting its Lunar New Year festivities on Feb. 19. The staff just moved everything indoors. The celebration is typically held in the library’s parking lot, ...

In Chinese culture, Lunar New Year signifies a fresh start, a family reunion, and a time to practice traditional Chinese arts. On Feb. 15, UW’s Chinese Student Association (CSAUW) brought the yearly ...

Opera Orlando’s latest concoction in their OperaX series in conjunction with Judson’s — an attempt to create approachable, cabaret-scale “bite-sized opera samplers” for neophytes and devotees alike — ...