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The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was "evidently" connected to President Trump's name being added to the arts center.

A dance company withdrew from two performances next year, and the arts center's website says two New Year's Eve jazz concerts have been canceled.

Mr. Elba received a knighthood and Ms. Erivo was also honored in an annual British tradition celebrating professional excellence and community service.

Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.

Her four episodes on the sitcom marked a rarity: a disabled actress onscreen.

The medium has been bigger than niche for a long time. That became apparent to everyone in 2025.

Recent stagings of classics like "La Traviata" and rarities like "Intermezzo" are among the highlights.

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision to Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera.

Dahlak Brathwaite's "Try/Step/Trip," part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.

Critics look back on a year when the balcony scene in "Evita" became a social media phenomenon and audiences swooned for the bear in "Paddington: The Musical."