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“Leopoldstadt” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” the two shows that took home top Tony Awards last week, saw big bumps at the box office in the days following that ceremony.The increases for the award-winning shows, which far outpaced a slight rise in…

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89. His son John McCarthy has confirmed that the writer of ‘No Country for Old Men’ died in Santa Fe Tuesday. Cormac McCarthy kept himself aloof, completely away from all…

Last Updated: April 06, 2023, 11:33 ISTChristopher Pissarides, winner of the joint 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)Christopher…

Physicists at Delft University of Technology have built a new technology on a microchip by combining two Nobel Prize-winning techniques for the first time. This microchip could measure distances in materials at high precision, for example…

Issued on: 09/02/2023 - 11:00 Peruvian Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa was set to join the fabled Academie Francaise in Paris on Thursday, the first member never to…

Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as…

Ned Rorem, the prolific Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning musician known for his vast output of compositions and for his barbed and sometimes scandalous prose, died on November 18, 2022. He was 99. The news was confirmed by a publicist for his…

Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author of the award-winning “Wolf Hall” Tudor trilogy, died peacefully on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday. “Wolf Hall”, published in 2009, and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies”,…

Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize-winning author known for her trilogy of novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, has died from a stroke, according to her literary agent Bill Hamilton. Mantel was, per Hamilton, working on a new…

Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Wolf Hall saga of historical novels, has died. She was 70.Mantel died "suddenly yet peacefully" surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said…