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NEW YORK — Broadway director Schele Williams is working on a book for young people about the history of enslavement.

NASHVILLE — The record that turned Shania Twain from a struggling singer-songwriter from Canada into a global superstar also changed country music for years to come.

Halloween festivities are largely off the table this October, but the biggest streaming platforms are here with some pretty scary backup plans.

TORONTO — A new exhibit on iconic New York nightclub Studio 54 will turn the Art Gallery of Ontario into a disco inferno later this year.

TORONTO — The Writers' Trust of Canada has released this year's five finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The finalists are Lorna Crozier, Steven Heighton, Jessica J. Lee, Tessa McWatt and David A. Neel.

Kirsten Johnson's last film, the autobiographical collage “Cameraperson," was an astonishing compendium of what she, as a cinematographer, had seen in her life behind a lens.

BERLIN — A study has concluded that the founding director of the Berlin International Film Festival made a “not insignificant” contribution to the German film system under Nazi rule and later covered up his role, festival organizers said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES — Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her rousing feminist anthem “I Am Woman” and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78.

LONDON — As much of Britain’s economy emerged from the coronavirus lockdown, its theatres stayed dark, with performers and staff unwillingly idled. So they made a song and dance about it.

LUCKNOW, India — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence leaving some 2,000 people dead.