Yearly Archives: 2021
Atlanta Ballet CEO Steps Down After Reinventing The Company
Arthur Jacobus's 12-year tenure has seen the company rebrand itself as an organization committed to creativity and innovation, followed by a reversal of that...
What Really Made Nadia Boulanger Tick?
"It is widely assumed that Boulanger consciously renounced composition after her sister died in order to champion Lili's music and focus on teaching. But...
Selling Out? When I Wrote Just For Money
"This was a question I also grappled with: could my creative prostitution involve high art, be the literary equivalent of Belle de Jour (1967), stylish and sexy,...
How Will Actors’ Equity’s New Open Access Policy Change Theatre?
Will a larger, more activist union make things fairer? Or will business remain more or less as usual? "We asked several industry sources and...
The Complicated Psychology Behind Our Attraction To Video Games
If video games are play, they’re an expression of our highest capacities as humans—our love of freedom, of imagination, and creative whim. But when...
Reviving Australia’s First Major Oratorio, 85 Years After Its Last Performance
Charles Packer's The Crown of Thorns premiered in Sydney in 1863 and was considered a masterpiece, sung every year at Eastertime by Australian choral...
Why Scarlett Johansson Is Suing Disney (And Why It Matters)
A star of her scale taking on a studio of an even bigger scale, potentially burning whatever bridges remain, is an unusual gambit but...
“We Cannot Go Back To How It Was” — Dancers Reflect On Their Return...
Principals from ABT (Calvin Royal III and Misty Copeland), NY City Ballet (Tiler Peck), the Martha Graham company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Ballet Hispánico,...
Dallas Symphony Is Selling Music As NFTs
Proceeds go to the musicians of the Met — which still isn’t regularly performing. KERA
Longest-Running Kids Animated Series In History Will End After 25 Years
Arthur, starring everyone's favorite cartoon aardvark, debuted on PBS in 1996 and will air its final season in 2022. In fact, one of the...
Emily Brontë Wrote A Second Novel. Did Charlotte Burn It?
The manuscript was unfinished but well underway when Emily died at age 30. The legend has been that Charlotte, envious and conservative, threw it...
Why Newsmax Is Flopping
The network's founders hoped to supplant Fox News, but viewership is down by half since January. Why? Says one expert, "Newsmax is just not...
Judge Rules Controversial San Francisco School Murals Must Remain Uncovered
In 2019, alums and students at George Washington High School protested what they saw as racist imagery in a set of Victor Arnautoff frescoes...
How Broadway Is Working COVID Safety Into All Its Operations
Actors' Equity is requiring vaccinations. COVID safety officers are being added to production teams, and a leading epidemiologist has been hired to train them....
After Yet Another Suicide, The Vessel At Hudson Yards In NYC May Close For...
On Thursday, a 14-year-old visiting the attraction with his family jumped to his death; his was the third suicide there in less than a...
UK Could Have Even More World Heritage Sites De-Listed, Warns UNESCO Official
Just over a week after Liverpool's waterfront was stripped of World Heritage status, the chief of the relevant UNESCO committee warns that the same...
Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature
Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out...
TV Pitchman Ron Popeil, 86
Mr. Popeil’s mastery of television marketing, dating to the 1950s but spanning several decades, made him nearly as recognizable onscreen as the TV and...
Cautionary Tale: How A Music Festival Went Horribly Wrong
The new HBO film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage offers a chilling demonstration of how greed, cultural rot, and the vagaries of crowd behavior can...
Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination
To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like...
How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84...
Asian Musicians On What They Really Face In The Classical Industry
"From world-famous musicians to anonymous internet commentators, discrimination toward Asian musicians contains an ugly, common tenor: In this music, they will not replace us."...
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over “Black Widow”
Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the simultaneous digital rollout of “Black Widow,” saying it breaches her contract with the company to release the...
…As The Dance World Returns Without Me…
"These days, dance brings me a deep pain and pronounced lack of joy that I never fathomed it could. The excitement with which I...
The Revolving Reputation Of Terence Rattigan, Once Britain’s Favorite Playwright
"His fall from grace in the mid-1950s was sudden and unexpected. From the mid-1930s he'd been the darling of the West End." Then along...
