Yearly Archives: 2021
You Probably Hadn’t Heard Of The National Ballet Of Canada’s New Director. That’s Good.
Hope Muir: "I feel like more people like me, who weren't necessarily huge stars, are going to end up in these roles, with a...
Big: Actors Equity Opens Up Membership
Actors’ Equity said it was waiving prior restrictions on membership in its quest to become a more equitable organization. - Broadway News
France Now Requires COVID Pass For Visiting All Cultural Institutions
"Beginning July 21, the 'pass sanitaire' or 'health pass' will be required for venues with more than 50 people. Visitors over 18 will be...
Asians May Seem Ubiquitous In Classical Music, But They Still Face Discrimination
Interviews with more than 40 Asians and Asian-Americans in the classical world reveal that, in 2021, many still have to put up with astoundingly...
Maybe Netflix’s Move Into Video Games Isn’t Such A Great Idea
Said one securities analyst. "This is like Starbucks saying, 'We've decided to get into the FedEx business because people come to our store already....
Sound Crew Stages Walkout At Williamstown Theater Festival
They'd been working 13-hour days with no overtime pay, outdoors with expensive electronics during an unusually wet summer. When a final tech rehearsal was...
Gil Wechsler, Who Lit The Met Opera’s Productions For Decades, Dead At 79
The company's first-ever resident lighting designer, he illuminated 112 productions over 20 years (1976-1996), and some of his work is still in use. He...
Edinburgh International Festival Director Announces Departure
Fergus Linehan, who came to the EIF from the Sydney Festival in 2014, reveled that next year's festival will be his last. - The...
UNESCO Revokes World Heritage Status Of Liverpool Waterfront
The UN's cultural heritage organization had been warning for years that unchecked building development was destroying the beauty and character of the old port...
Pining For The Empire (We Should Pay Attention)
The experience of imperial nostalgia, Peter Mitchell argues, is not just some lightly felt fancy or excuse for “rote grumpiness,” but evidence of a...
South Korea Is Becoming A Bigger Player In Hollywood
Korean-language programs have seen a surge in demand following drama “Parasite” winning best picture at last year’s Academy Awards and “Minari” receiving critical acclaim. Los Angeles...
Americans Have No Trust? Actually – We Are Amazingly Trusting
The modern sharing economy is premised on leaps of faith in perfect strangers: we rely on crowdsourced restaurant reviews on Yelp, climb into a...
The Language Of Public Art Vandalism
There’s a language of defacement, according to artist Shanequa Gay, who’s just finished restoring her Reframing Herstory (2019) mural on Edgewood Avenue near the Georgia Beer Garden....
Fake News: Distinguishing Between Lies And Mistakes
There’s a very big difference between an error and a lie – and between ‘fake news’ and ‘false news’. A fake is always false,...
Christopher Ricks, The “Irritable” Literary Critic
I think criticism is being good at noticing things. If I write about a particular work of literature, I do have to believe –...
What It’s like Coming Back To The Cello After 40 Years
"I felt like I was reconnecting with a best friend. I needed the opportunity to play music and have these other musicians in my...
HMV At 100: UK’s Favorite Record Store Is Hanging On
Since 2000, the once-hugely popular chain has entered bankruptcy twice, changed ownership twice, and closed, reopened and closed again hundreds of stores. In 2019...
Revising Mamet’s “Oleanna” Post-#MeToo
The production can be read as a post-#MeToo critique of the invidious yet slippery ways in which male power exerts itself without being easy...
What Ever Became Of Joy Womack, The American Who Joined, And Quit, The Bolshoi...
At 15 she entered the Bolshoi's school; by 17 she was a company soloist. In 2013, aged 19, she claimed she couldn't get solos...
How The Arts Could Lead On Thinking About Disabilities
Framing disability in this way—as a series of deficits—adds to the problematic thinking that interprets access as questions of patron services, facilities, or technology. -...
How The United States Took Shakespeare To Heart
Very, very firmly, that's how — and that goes back nearly to the beginning of the republic. Brooke Gladstone interviews Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro....
The Dark Side Of The Meritocracy
For all of the well-intentioned idealism of today’s aspirational elite, there is a dark side of meritocracy that is never fully concealed in the...
The Art Of Creating ASL Signs For Individuals’ Names
Decades ago, names were usually communicated by finger-spelling. Today, with the rise of "capital-D Deaf" culture, ASL users often create individual gestural signs as...
The Potential Benefits Of Using NFTs For Tickets
NFTs can be bought, sold, traded, swapped, used as collateral, borrowed, lent, etc. In other words, your ability to financially engineer to create additional...
Preserving Local Shows, And Even Commercials, From The Early Years Of TV
Rick Klein, a sysadmin by trade, has created a YouTube Channel called the Museum of Classic Chicago Television — "kids' shows like Bozo and...
