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Behind 'Peter Pan' A.R.T.'s 'Finding Neverland' brings J.M. Barrie's creative inspirations to life I n 1904, a kind of lightning struck London's theater scene.

For Faculty of Music graduate and MAGIC! guitarist Mark Pellizzer there are no tricks to writing a Billboard #1 hit single - just hard work, an ear for a musical hook, and persistence.

University of Queensland Press has released a 10 th anniversary edition of author Andrew Stafford 's cult classic Pig City .

Damon Phillips remembers finding the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz in his parents' record collection with its 46-page booklet of liner notes about the music when he was about 10 years old.

A national competition to find the most innovative new works in electronic music has been set up by Oxford University, to build on the increasing importance of electronic music in the University's teaching and research programmes.

New project will record a digital day in the life of modern childhood A new digital archive of children's lives, using the material they themselves have produced, is being created by researchers at the University of Sussex.

Press release issued: 2 July 2014 Wireless technology is becoming increasingly common in live musical performances but the technology is prone to interference, which can affect a live concert.

A remarkable ‘supermarket’ stocked entirely from marine litter is set to feature in a new exhibition dedicated to raising public awareness of the problem of pollution in our seas.

News Brief: James Duesing Appointed Director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University : Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo [a] cmu (p) edu P

Director of the Attenborough Centre to step down at end of five-year term Professor Sally-Jane Norman will be stepping down as Director of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the end of her five-year term, on 31 December 2014.

The vision of securing Cambridge's reputation as an international centre of museums excellence received a major boost today when Arts Council England awarded University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) nearly £4.5m for 2015-18 and continuing Major Partner Museum status.

The Hammer's biennial exhibition has taken over the entire museum to showcase 35 emerging Los Angeles artists Mike Fricano Clarissa Tossin This Volkswagen Brasilia with the cleaning pool equipmen

ANN ARBOR-University of Michigan dance professor Robin Wilson-tonight a performer-licks her index finger and then lifts it to check the imaginary wind's direction.

The Fowler Museum's vast collection of more than 120,000 examples of world arts includes an important repository of more than 20,000 textiles that trace the history of cloth over two millennia and across five continents.

In October 2012, a famous painting paid a short, hushed visit to Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, where Cornell scientists used an X-ray detector to scan for a suspected secret hidden underneath.

In a hall full of scientists and artists, Qin Xu, Ivo Peters and Iddo Aharony were the ones who broke the ice at the May 14 presentations of the 2014 graduate collaboration grant projects sponsored b

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania presents Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection.

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Franco Sciannameo Co-edits Book Examining Music and Philosophy of Italian Composer Giacinto Scelsi-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University : Pam Wigley / 41

Sussex film historian features in National Gallery video How do Italian Renaissance painters and Hollywood film directors use architecture to get us to 'enter the picture'' Taking Antonello da Messin

Robert Burns Choral Settings website Centre for Robert Burns Studies Dr Kirsteen McCue Over 200 years after his death, academics and performers have launched an interactive online resource to make choral versions of the work of Robert Burns available to the public for the very first time.

Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a 17th-century painting owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Long-lost paintings have been discovered on the walls of Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat temple, thanks to the keen observations of an ANU researcher. The ancient paintings date back almost 500 years and depict deities, animals, boats and the temple itself, giving historians a new understanding of life in a relatively unknown period of Cambodia's history.

Christelle Nahas/UCLA One of the last remaining works of acclaimed muralist Terry Schoonhoven and the LA Fine Arts Squad, a renowned street art group he helped found, is located in the history department student lounge in Bunche Hall.

High-stepping through life Dancer and scholar Rossi Lamont Walter Jr. '14 aims to help others dream This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard's stellar graduates.

28 May 2014 The University has been chosen to receive a copy of a very rare book, printed by the Vatican, concerning Hildegard of Bingen.

An international animal rights expert from the University of Sheffield is being tipped to be a future media star by BBC Radio 3 after being named as a 'New Generation Thinker'.

27 May 2014 A PhD drama student is one of ten academics nationwide announced today (27 May) as a BBC New Thinker.

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has again secured two of 10 places on a BBC-led competition to find young academic broadcasters of the future.

A few minutes into his convocation address, actor Ed Helms cut to the chase: "You do realize I'm not actually Andy Bernard, right? He isn't a real person.

23 May 2014 The voice of one of the country's best known atheists is to be part of an opera based on a controversial unfinished novel by Mark Twain on 24 May.

World-renowned UAlberta physicist to host screening of documentary on Large Hadron Collider and discovery of Higgs boson.

The piece called "Black Mirror" in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's Kress Study Gallery is just that - a black, reflective surface within a frame.

Famous Nottinghamshire characters like Robin Hood, Lord Byron and DH Lawrence will be brought back to life in a new national festival of history and culture being hosted by The University of Nottingham.