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Composer Rene Orth's “10 Days in a Madhouse,” based on the 1887 book by trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly, opened Opera Philadelphia's O23 Festival

Composer Rene Orth's “10 Days in a Madhouse,” based on the 1887 book by trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly, opened Opera Philadelphia's O23 Festival

Rupert Murdoch stirs mixed feelings in Britain, where he transformed the media over half a century

Poland's right-wing leaders are denouncing a new feature film by Polish director Agnieszka Holland as it opens in the country

Everyone who enters Barter Theatre in southwestern Virginia is met and welcomed by Katy Brown, the producing artistic director

Everyone who enters Barter Theatre in southwestern Virginia is met and welcomed by Katy Brown, the producing artistic director

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Rain forced more than one fashion house to scramble for indoor locations in Milan and fashionistas to find a way to move about the gridlocked Italian city on Friday without the threat of a drenching. Some scenes from inside the runway shows on the third day of Milan Fashion Week ’s mostly womenswear previews for Spring-Summer 2024. SWEET FAREWELL AT TOD’S Sharon Stone, Quinta Brunson and Olivia Palermo had front-row seats for the curtain call of Tod’s designer Walter Chiapponi, who is moving on after four years at the brand. Models traversed a cavernous workshop filled with carpentry, classical statues and the painted backdrops for La Scala opera house productions, shadowed by a robot video camera on wheels. The setting underlined Tod’s fusing of traditional Italian craftsmanship with technology. Chiapponi’s swan song collection focused on essential luxury, featuring clean lines and an understated color story in mostly muted monochromes but enlivened by some acid...

Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing adds during shows and movies early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions

Another member of BTS has begun his mandatory military service in South Korea.

King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment

King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment

U.S. breaking pros who hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year have a challenge

This week, a Truman Capote story from early in his career will be published for the first time

Movie star Anthony Mackie was back in his home town — and back at an old job — as he took part in a program to help people needing roof repairs and replacements after natural disasters

A new poll shows that Americans are much more sympathetic to Hollywood's striking writers and actors then they are to the studios on the other side of the table

Before Doja Cat released her stellar fourth full-length album, the take-no-prisoners “Scarlet,” she bit the hand that feeds

Maybe this was supposed to be the clever new thing about the fourth “Expendables” movie — the title has the number “4” embedded in the word

The departure of Rupert Murdoch as the leader of Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings after decades at the helm is unlikely to have as much of an impact on conservative media overall as it would have a decade ago

Actor Sophie Turner has sued her estranged pop star husband Joe Jonas to force him to turn over the passports of the couple’s two young daughters so she can take them to England

Thousands have marched across Nigeria over the mysterious death of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise

Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio

Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have achieved an unbearable lightness in a series of translucent chiffon dresses that gently cosseted the form, trailed by wispy strands of the finest organza

Novels from Ireland, the United States, Canada and Britain that explore families, communities and a world in crisis make up the six finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction

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A Northern California coroner's office says actor Angus Cloud died in July of an accidental overdose of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances

It’s not every day that VIP visitors venture out to the town of Saint-Denis, one of the poorest and toughest parts of the Paris region

Milan Fashion Week continued Thursday for the second day with mostly womenswear previews for next spring and summer under a steady rain. Here are some scenes as Milan designers try to keep the focus on warm weather: TOM FORD RETURNS TO MILAN ROOTS Peter Hawkings has come full circle, making his runway debut as creative director of the Tom Ford brand Thursday in Milan, where he started working with Ford at Gucci 25 years ago. Fashionistas entered the Tom Ford world through plush, champagne-colored carpet, beckoning luxury. Models trod comfortably on stiletto heels, showing leg in shorts worn with tailored jackets, revealing their form in clingy, floor sweeping dresses, and fully inhabiting sexy velvet suits with silken shirts with the trademark Tom Ford plunging neckline. Hawkings freely acknowledged that his design codes owe a lot to the 25 years he worked alongside Ford, who passed the torch last April. "The design ethos is ingrained in me,'' he said backstage. The...

Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters have spent a second full day in talks that could potentially put an end to the nearly five-month dispute that has brought many film and television productions to a halt

Grammy-winning rapper 2 Chainz says his official studio album with Lil Wayne, expectedly titled “COLLEGROVE 2,” will be out before 2023 is over

Sheeran won a victory in court against Ed Townsend's family in May.

WWE’s popular television show, “Friday Night Smackdown,” will be moving from Fox to USA Network next year under a new five-year domestic media rights partnership with NBCUniversal

Musician Stephen Sanchez is capping off a whirlwind year by releasing his debut album “Angel Face,” out Friday

Musician Stephen Sanchez is capping off a whirlwind year by releasing his debut album “Angel Face,” out Friday

It's been nearly five months since the Hollywood writers strike began and more than two months since actors joined them

Before country duo Dan + Shay wrote their fifth studio album, “Bigger Houses,” they nearly broke up

Tourists in Rome can now enjoy a “new” ancient attraction

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down at Fox and News Corp, son Lachlan will take over as chairman

Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. The companies said Thursday the move was approved by both boards

King Charles III has made an emotional stop in front of Paris' fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral on the second day of his state visit to France

A Las Vegas newspaper is the subject of vicious attacks online for its coverage of an alleged murder of a retired police chief

Thousands came out in a rain to watch an open-air Diesel show during Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, making the denim-centric brand the hottest ticket in town

Bob Ross was known for his unpretentious approach to painting on his long-running show, “The Joy of Painting,” but now the painting he completed on his first episode in 1983 is for sale for nearly $10 million

John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of “Once,” “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” makes the movie version of “three chords and the truth.”

Gambling regulators have fined the online sports betting company PointsBet $25,000, citing violations of New Jersey sports betting laws

Tenor Stephen Gould, who announced earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, has died

Kevin Costner and his wife of nearly 19 years, Christine Baumgartner, have reached a settlement in their divorce

MGM Resorts International says computers serving customers at its casino and hotel properties have been restored across the U.S. That's 10 days after a cyberattack led it to shut down digital systems

Acclaimed Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has died at age 64