On Oct. 30, 2015, a fire ripped through a nightclub in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, leaving 64 people dead. Almost six years later, a documentary about the fire and its tragic aftermath has been nominated for two Oscars.

Since the Oscar-nominated ‘Collective,’ much and little has changed

Urging the Metropolitan Opera to compensate its artists “appropriately,” the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sent a letter to leaders at the Met on Thursday saying that the many months its orchestra and chorus had gone without pay during the pandemic had become “increasingly unacceptable.

Met Opera’s music director decries musicians’ unpaid furlough

One year ago, the grim news that Broadway was shutting down was sweeping through the theater district. Performers were packing up their things and heading home; theater staff members were stationed in lobbies to intercept ticket holders and explain to them that the show was canceled.

‘We’ll be back,’ broadway says, on shutdown anniversary

It was a February day so overcast that noon looked like dusk, and Frances McDormand felt a little rattled. She told me this as we ambled down the main street of the small coastal town where she lives, a modest, hidden place so far from Hollywood that studio searchlights would have a hard time finding it.

What Frances McDormand would (and wouldn’t) give to 'Nomadland'

Among a series of threats to our world in the next two years, infectious diseases and crises of livelihood topped the list of a survey undertaken by the World Economic Forum.

Epidemics, livelihood crises world's biggest risks over next 2 years: World Economic Forum

Broadway may be dark for several months to come, but actors from four shuttered shows have been given the opportunity — a rare one during the coronavirus pandemic — to put on their costumes and perform.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade revives Broadway for a day

A few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Letterman sat behind his desk at CBS’s “Late Show” and shared the story of a rally in Choteau, Montana, to raise money for New York.

David Letterman isn’t here to cheer you up this time

Marise Payne, Australia's Foreign Minister today said that 243 of their citizens were evacuated from Wuhan in a government aircraft. Wuhan is the epicentre of the mysterious SARS-like virus which has already killed 361 people worldwide, with the number of cases rising everyday.

Australia evacuates 200 people from Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak in China

Heads of states, CEOs and global health leaders gathered in France on Wednesday in an effort to raise at least $14 billion to finance the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years.

French President hosts Global Fund conference

Mona Lisa takes back its corner of the Louvre after renovation

While cholera is nowhere to be found in the gleaming hotels of Mecca, it now afflicts over 500,000 victims in Saudi Arabia?s impoverished southern neighbor, Yemen.

Hajj in a time of Cholera: Remembering India?s colonial past and Yemen?s tragic present

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