Yearly Archives: 2021
The Folger’s Karen Ann Daniels: Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Legacy
"Within the theatre industry itself, and in education, we’ve elevated him as sort of a pinnacle. We have an opportunity to understand why and...
Australian Theatre In Crisis
COVID-related funding losses have seen drama departments at seven universities either cut completely, or drastically pruned. The loss of these programs will have a devastating...
TV Ads Are Fading. Where Will That Money Go?
Though total TV advertising is set to top $60 billion this year, according to media agency Zenith, the market is expected to shrink by...
You’re A Budding Choreographer. How Do You Land Commissions, And What Do You Do...
A couple of working contemporary choreographers offer ideas about how to get a foot in the door — and then what to consider in...
Jim O’Quinn, 75, Founding Editor Of American Theatre Magazine
The magazine’s mandate was to cover not only the nation’s nonprofit theatre scene but, as O’Quinn promised in his first editor’s note, to shine a...
The Most Influential Science Fiction Books In History
Yes, the obvious candidates are here — Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1984, Dune, Asimov, Bradbury, Octavia Butler — along with some you...
How Today’s Environmental Challenges Will Change The Art World
“These crises are emerging out of environmental challenges and social justice challenges that are very present. Going back to business as usual is going...
AI Recreates Three Lost Gustav Klimt Paintings In Glorious Color
The Faculty Paintings — three allegorical works titled Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence — were likely destroyed in a fire near the end of Word...
University Of Hong Kong To Remove Tiananmen Commemoration
The 23-foot tower of naked bodies twisted together, some mid-scream, was created by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt and is the last remaining Tiananmen commemoration...
“The Worst Idea In History” — ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ At 50
That phrase is how one potential investor rejected Andrew Lloyd Webber’s proposal to stage the rock opera he wrote with Tim Rice. (That's why...
How Your Brain Constructs You
Just as your memory is a construction, so are your senses. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is the result of some...
Nathalie Stutzmann Named Music Director Of Atlanta Symphony
Stutzmann, a former contralto from France who's currently principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will start an initial four-year term at the ASO's...
Some Early Good News From The WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times Merger
In a Q&A, two senior executives at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) say that they no plans to reduce the newspaper's seven-days-per-week print schedule and...
Inside The Rebuilding Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall: Will The Acoustics Finally Be...
"Renovation is a weak term for this undertaking. … Acousticians scrutinized every block and beam in the auditorium and the architects bent their design...
Merch! Netflix Does Deal With Walmart To Sell Lots Of Branded Stuff
Hoo-boy. "The new Netflix Hub at Walmart will bring Netflix-branded gadgets, clothes, music and games to Walmart's online store exclusively. … (It) will also...
LA’s Center Theatre Group Promises All-Female-Playwright Season Next Year (And Gets ‘Slave Play’ Back)
After criticism for programming few plays by women this season, culminating in Jeremy O. Harris pulling Slave Play from the schedule there, CTG says...
Paddy Moloney, Founder Of The Chieftains And Hero Of Irish Folk Revival, Dead At...
For nearly 60 years, playing his tin whistle and uilleann pipes, he and his supergroup brought Irish traditional music to the world, making nearly...
A Temporary, Prefab Concert Hall At A Disused Power Plant On The Edge Of...
That's what they're hoping for in Munich, where the Gasteig has closed for a multiyear renovation. Both the city's orchestras will be performing at...
Time To Abandon The Idea Of Generational Cultures
For one thing, there is no empirical basis for claiming that differences within a generation are smaller than differences between generations. - The New Yorker
Stories About Other Worlds Help Imagine Better Futures
Other worlds and other possibilities aren’t just about kind of fantasy possibilities, but actual other worlds that exist alongside us now. And that can...
Netflix CEO Says Net Won’t Remove Dave Chappelle’s Transphobic Special Because It’s Popular
Ted Sarandos wrote that, although some people may find stand-up comedy to be “mean-spirited,” “our members enjoy it, and it’s an important part of...
A Fascinating Group Attempt At Understanding Tolstoy
If the “Internet novel” or “Instagram novel” are ascendant genres in today’s literary marketplace, Tolstoy Together is an impressive nonfiction cousin. It sits merrily on the fence between a type of...
Big Data Research: Left And Right Literally Speak Different Languages
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University collected more than 86.6 million comments from more than 6.5 million users on 200,000 YouTube videos, then analyzed them...
Innovation And The Great Resignation
It wasn’t so long ago that people were worried that automation would put them out of work. Ironically, instead, people chose to quit jobs...
W. G. Sebald Said He Stayed True To His Subjects In Big Things and...
It was the details, many of them none too plausible, that were true; the larger outline of the stories and characters were what was...
