Yearly Archives: 2021
“Not The Civil Service”: Cameron Mackintosh Defends Cutting “Phantom” Orchestra In Half
"I've had a terrible year trying to keep on as many people as I can, but our job is to try to put a...
Does ‘The King And I’ Need To Be Decolonized? Yes (And It’s Largely Anna’s...
Not everything in Anna Leonowens's memoirs about her time at the Siamese court is a lie, but quite a lot is untrue, especially about...
Are We Polarized Or Suffering From Propaganda?
"Systemic polarization, as it is usually told, is a basically symmetrical story. Polarization arises from a social dynamic that afflicts almost everybody. The social...
Actors On One Of Germany’s Most Popular TV Shows Made Sarcastic Videos About The...
"A website called #allesdichtmachen ('close it all down') was launched on Thursday night, featuring 53 to-camera clips in which high-profile actors sarcastically boast...
In Venice, Building A New System To Protect St. Mark’s From Ever-Increasing Floods
The repeated, record-setting acqua alta events of late 2019 caused an estimated €300 million in damage to the Byzantine-style landmark — and floods are...
How Yahoo Went From Being The Web’s Welcoming Atrium To Its Wrecking Ball
Back in the 1990s, before search engines were much good, Yahoo was a popular and useful portal, a directory organizing the great, amorphous mass...
Authors And Publishers Are In No Rush To Restart Book Tours
"Most publishers contacted by PW said they are deferring making any concrete plans about tours until authors feel comfortable going back on the road...
Fired Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Director Lands New Job In Paris
Last July, after a tenure that had been widely viewed (at least from outside) as a major success, Nathalie Bondil was dismissed from the...
Baltimore Symphony President To Depart, Ending Turbulent Tenure
"Peter Kjome capped a roller-coaster five years as president and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra" — a period that included a financial near-collapse,...
Italy Begins Reopening Theaters And Museums
"After six months of rotating on-again, off-again closures, restaurants, bars, museums and cinemas opened to the public in most of the country under a...
Scalpers Have Been Buying Up UK Festival Tickets And Massively Hiking Prices
A Guardian investigation found that dozens of professional touts have snapped up tickets for eagerly awaited festivals and are demanding massively inflated prices from...
I was A “Minority Intern” In The 1990s. We Need To Talk About These...
"Without long insights into the early diversity programs, our profession cannot address the structural inequities that perpetuate the need for entry-level opportunities targeted for...
China Censors News Of Chloé Zhao’s Best Director Oscar Win
The Chinese government imposed a virtual news blackout, and censors moved to tamp down or scrub out discussion of the award on social media....
How Your Movie Theatre Experience Will Likely Change
To survive beyond the pandemic, theaters must persuade moviegoers not just to come back, but to come back more frequently than they did—to start...
New California Bill Could Save LA’s 99-Seat Theatres
Enter SB 805, which is up for a hearing by the California Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 26. If passed,...
Profusion of Confusion: Unraveling the Tangled Tale of “Salvator Mundi” (& my theory on...
The only thing that’s certain about the fate of this elusive painting is that the story about why it hasn’t publicly surfaced since it...
Weston Sprott Speaks About Transforming Young Peoples’ Lives
The dean of Juilliard's Preparatory Division and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra speaks about transforming young artists' lives and incorporating diversity across the...
Choreographer Creates Company To Copyright Dance Moves
The JaQuel Knight's company Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will see to the rights to Knights dance moves while operating as a music publisher...
How TikTok Has Made “Vibe” A Multimedia Haiku
What a haiku is to language, a vibe is to sensory perception: a concise assemblage of image, sound, and movement. (#Aesthetic is sometimes used...
Opera Super-Fan Leaves Behind 200,000 Autographs
Lois Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who became perhaps New York’s biggest and longest-standing opera buff — and an obsessive autograph...
American TV Watchers Flee Cable
Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all...
Streamers Ruled The Oscars This Year
Yes, 2020 was a weird year, and the rules for movies to debut in movie theatres were waived, but still: Netflix had seven statues,...
Anthony Hopkins Sure Didn’t Expect To Win, Either
The actor didn't appear on video for his Best Actor win, leaving the Oscars production with a big letdown of an ending. A Los...
Before The Pandemic, Jenny Odell Wrote A Book About Being Stuck In The Doomscroll
So how did the author of How to Do Nothing survive the various self-isolations, lockdowns, and other stay-at-home initiatives before vaccines got their start?...
The Oscars Disrupted Union Station And More
How wild to have a show with Crip Camp nominated for best documentary, a show that prevented disabled people in L.A. from getting to...
