Yearly Archives: 2021
How Could Sony Have Let The Mike Richards ‘Jeopardy!’ Fiasco Happen? Like This
In case anyone was still wondering, yes, Richards-as-executive-producer definitely rigged the choice of Richards as host. Here's a look at the circumstances, expected and...
As Pandemic Worsens, So Does Outlook For LA’s Small Theaters
"And so the question looms: How much longer can these companies stay afloat financially? With pandemic funding drying up, 99-seat theaters are scrambling to...
NBCUniversal Seeks To Boot Nielsen From Top Of Ratings Measurement Business
Nielsen had long been the undisputed master of counting broadcast media's audience, but its traditional methods have had trouble accurately measuring the number of...
Smithsonian Kicks Off Major New Project On America’s Racial History
"'Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past' (is) an ambitious multiyear program … that will tap into the vast expertise of the Smithsonian...
Met Opera Reaches Deal On Contract With Orchestra
"The agreement concludes several months of tension over how significant future pay cuts would be for musicians, who went for nearly a year without...
Edinburgh Fringe Starts Emergency Campaign To Raise $10 Million
"The Edinburgh festival fringe has launched a £7.5m emergency appeal after it lost millions of pounds during the COVID pandemic. … (The Fringe) was...
Almost 5000 COVID Infections Linked To Cornwall Festival
Health officials said 4,700 people who have tested positive for coronavirus confirmed they had attended the festival in Newquay or had connections to it. About three-quarters...
John Cleese Making A Show On Political Correctness
“There’s so much I really don’t understand, like: how the impeccable idea of ‘Let’s all be kind to people’ has been developed in some...
We’re Living Through A Time Of Disasters. Will They Make Us Tougher Or…
After surviving a disaster, a minority of people become more resilient, so that, should another disaster strike, they are better able to cope. For...
The Grateful Dead Archive Contains Thousands Of Streamable Concerts. But What’s Really Cool Are...
Read in bulk, certain repetitions emerge. Recordings are “tasty” and “crispy,” “gifts” and “treats,” but also “killer” and “monsters.” Eyebrows bounce and mouths hang...
Wanted: Theatre Directors Without Vision
"The laser focus on a director’s vision is problematic. It sets the director up as a prophet rather than a leader. It focuses on...
Whistled Languages Are Not Dead Yet
In at least 80 cultures worldwide, people have developed whistled versions of the local language when the circumstances call for it. … By studying...
Martin Scorsese On Working With Fran Lebowitz
“My approach to our conversation was to listen to her; I would get angry, happy, inspired,” Scorsese explains. “Fran is, to me, asking very...
Color Wars: The Art World’s Silliest Feud May Have Produced Some Actual Good
When Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack ("the world's blackest black"), Stuart Semple led a chorus of furious objections to the idea of...
Life, Death and Numbers: Ann Patchett on the Members Of The National Academy Of...
The two hundred and fifty members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters are writers, composers, visual artists, and architects. It is a...
Mass Exodus And An Unholy Mess At France’s Most Prestigious Classical Music Competition
The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition is in crisis after its artistic directors — pianist Bertrand Chamayou, violinist Renaud Capuçon, and La Scala CEO Dominique Meyer —...
Dance Is Physical, Sure, But Why Don’t We Focus More On The Mental Preparation?
In this day and age, it has never been so important to have the tools to cultivate a mindset of self-belief. “Especially nowadays with...
UNESCO Calls For Preservation Of Afghanistan’s Heritage, But Who Will Actually Protect It?
As an executive of the Institute for Art and Law tweeted: "It would be for other states, or international bodies like the United Nations,...
Bret Easton Ellis’ Unconventional Podcast Model
Ellis’s storytelling approach, that of serializing his memoir on a podcast, allows him to exploit both types of unreliable narrator: the one who knows...
Under New Censorship Law, Hong Kong May Retroactively Ban Older Films
"Authorities are tightening their grip on the screening of films with a series of censorship law amendments that will include empowering the city's No....
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes ‘Spectacular’ Debut Before Dance World’s Elite
The company has played the Kennedy Center, and it performed at the Olympics in Atlanta (1996) and London (2012), but perhaps none of those...
“The Theatrical Arm Of The Civil Rights Movement”
The Free Southern Theater was founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to travel around 1960s Mississippi, performing for poor Black farmers...
Blaxit: The African-American Artists Following In The Footsteps Of DuBois, Baker, Baldwin, And Simone
Taking advantage of the free movement a US passport provides, and tired of the disadvantages that come with dark skin at home, these performers,...
Texas Performance Venues In A Tight Spot Over Vaccine Passports
In June, Gov. Abbott signed a law making it illegal for most businesses to require proof of vaccination from customers. But a growing number...
Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Reopens At Last
"Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a...
