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MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week opened Wednesday with a sense of renewal. Milan's five-day calendar returned to near pre-COVID-19 levels with 68 runway shows, 104 presentations and 30 events.

TORONTO (AP) — Lena Dunham estimates her career is now a “tween.” It's been 12 years since Dunham's feature film debut, 2010's “Tiny Furniture." (She was just 23 when it premiered.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This week, the United Nations is the world's premier venue for current events — which, one could say, is the forte of the U.S. Coast Guard. So naturally the military branch's boats are a familiar presence during the U.N.

Passion projects can go all sorts of wrong ways, but Lena Dunham has made something of a triumph in “ Catherine Called Birdy ,” a medieval coming-of-age story that’s part “Bridget Jones’s Diary," part Mel Brooks and all joy.

Disgruntled Airbnb guests are taking to Twitter and TikTok to vent about everything from cleaning fees to misleading listings.

“MORE Different Voices,” Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues (Dawnserly Records) For more than half a century, Corky Siegel has brought new colors to the blues.

TORONTO — The Stratford Festival is bridging the old and the new with a 2023 slate featuring Shakespeare classics, beloved musicals and fresh takes on familiar stories.

MILAN (AP) — The Milan Fashion Week that opens Wednesday is showcasing collections by perhaps its most ethnically diverse lineup of designers, including the debuts of the new creative directors of Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and the return of Haiti

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover.

NEW YORK (AP) — The theater community is banding together for a special podcast to combat censorship that features performances from plays and musicals under threat and appearances by Bryan Cranston, Raúl Esparza, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Richard Kind