Yearly Archives: 2021
Movie Theatre Stocks Down As Industry Realigns
“Imagine being a theater owner and realizing studios need you less and less every day. Leverage is shifting rapidly in the streaming era toward...
Wayne McGregor: ”We Need, In Dance, To Slightly Rebalance What It Is We’re Watching...
"The more we see diverse body types on stage, the more people understand that dance as an expressive art form can have this wide...
Warner (Seeing Easy Money) Introduces “NFTs For The Masses”
Nifty’s, which launches on Monday, is all about making NFTs more accessible to the average person who may not want to spend money (let...
The Play For Our Moment? A Harold Pinter One-Act From 1960
Charles McNulty: "The Dumb Waiter lampoons the subservience to authoritarian power by focusing on the behavior of the stooges. Pinter humorously captures their moral...
Master Bluegrass Fiddler Byron Berline Dead At 77
"Weaving elements of pop, jazz, blues and rock into an old-timey approach to his instrument, Mr. Berline contributed instrumentals" to recordings by Bob Dylan,...
‘Voice Cloning’ — AI-Generated Copies Of Individuals’ Speech Intrigues And Worries Voice Actors
Artificial intelligence software can now create very convincing reproductions of people's vocal timbres and speech patterns. Could this be a tool to let voice...
Jerry Saltz Turns Down $250K Substack Offer To Stay At New York Mag
The Pulitzer-winning art critic said tweeted, "I think it's fishy to always be barking to your readers to subscribe. … I like being in...
Who’s Up For Taking Over Dallas’s Classical Radio Station?
Last month, the City of Dallas, which owns and (for now) operates WRR Classical 101 FM, issued a Request for Proposals from nonprofits to...
You’ll Still Be Wearing Masks At Performances In England, Even After July 19
Freedom Day (as Boris Johnson has called it) will see all COVID-related legal restrictions on arts venues lifted, but the Society of London Theatres...
Verbier Festival Orchestra Quarantined, Misses Its First Concert Of Year
Nine cases of COVID have been discovered (so far) among the orchestra's young musicians, who are isolating from everyone else at the site. The...
US Post Office Launches Stamps Featuring Tap Dancers
"Today, we are celebrating the American art form of tap dance with these vibrant stamps in the heart of Times Square." - KPVI
TV Has Done A Bad Job At Portraying Poverty
We need productions that embrace social realism without condescension, interrogate class insightfully, and present characters that are not caricatures. - The Walrus
LA’s Theatres Face Big Issues In Reopening
Two issues: Uncertainty as to when theatergoers will be ready to cram into small black boxes, and a 2020 state law that stands to...
9/11 Museum’s Twentieth Anniversary Show Canceled For Budget Cuts
Before the coronavirus pandemic, curators had discussed a large anniversary exhibition examining music’s role in uniting Americans after 9/11 and other tragedies. -...
Today’s Newsletter Boom – A New Literary Genre?
The first-person informality that has been present since the earliest days of web writing achieves its business apotheosis in the newsletter: from personal essay...
Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber, Activist
Lloyd Webber — who redefined musical theater with shows like “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats,” and served for years in the House...
Why Debate Over Critical Race Theory Has Nothing To Do With It
Recall the central claims of CRT. Racism is a big, systemic problem in America. If you don’t recognize that, if we can’t at least...
What To Do With The Artists Who Were Bad People?
So little of what well known thinkers and artists did or said is actually reflected in public consciousness, assuming it makes a showing at...
Buying Culture? Unopened Super Mario Brothers Game From 1986 Sells For $1,56 Million
The auction house was shocked to see a game sell for more than a $1 million two days after the Zelda game broke its...
Vijay Gupta’s Path To Music
Being “in dialogue with an audience that otherwise would never have access to that music” opens up what Gupta calls “a mutual space of...
Who, And What, Will Be Nominated For An Emmy?
Let the predictions - and snub predictions: Small Axe and WandaVision, perhaps? - begin. - Los Angeles Times
Where Are All Of The Great Black Concert Films?
Though parts of Summer of Soul were on YouTube for years, most of the recordings languished in a basement. In those decades, white filmmakers...
Broadway Is So Ready To Open Back Up
Wow: "Just two months ago, only one Broadway show had plans to open in the new 2021-2022 season. Now there are 43." - Washington Post
An Oral History Of The Weird Movie That Became A Feminist Classic
That's right: Legally Blonde. - The New York Times
The Attacca Quartet Made It Through The Pandemic
They even recorded, while collaborating over Zoom and using other tools, a new album. "This whole record is sort of like poster child of...
