Yearly Archives: 2023
London’s Royal Opera House Orchestra Votes To Authorize Strike
The members are asking for their salaries to return to pre-COVID level. According to reports, the Royal Opera House orchestra was asked to make...
Despite Rhetoric And Good Intentions, Arts Orgs In Australia Haven’t Done Much To Diversify...
"Of the 184 cultural organisations surveyed, and 1,011 individual responses from those working within arts organisations, more than half the respondents conceded they had...
Flooding Near The Taj Mahal May Actually Be Beneficial
Heavy monsoon rains this summer have swollen the Yamuna River in Agra right up to the Taj's walls. There might be slight damage to...
Why Would Disney Sell Off ABC? And Who’d Buy It?
"The decline of the linear TV business model has been apparent for years. But even so, the idea that ABC — not to mention...
Just Before A Strike Vote, Backstage Union IATSE, Broadway Producers, And Disney Agree On...
"The Broadway League and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees say a tentative agreement has been reached among the two parties and Disney...
Tony Bennett, 96
"Few entertainers have had such a remarkable second act. He had his first top-selling hit in 1951 with 'Because of You,' then topped the...
New Haven Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Perry So
"So" — who begins his term in the fall of 2024 — "isn't a stranger to New Haven. Born and raised in Hong Kong,...
David Byrne Named Artistic Director Of London’s Royal Court Theatre (No, Not That David...
"David Byrne, an award-winning playwright and director who has built a powerful reputation at a small studio theatre in London" called New Diorama, "is...
Small Indie UK Presses Are Leading The Publishing Industry Right Now
The argument runs something like this: because commercial pressures at large houses encourage cautious commissioning, nimbler indies – operating with tighter margins – step...
BroadwayCon: The State of Diversity In Theatre
This year's conference explores diversity in its various forms... - The New York Times
Study: Why People Gaslight Others
Through a qualitative analysis of survey responses from 65 gaslighting victims (ages 18 to 69), Klein and his co-authors at the University of Toronto...
The Tide Turns – Criticism Pivots Away From Moralizing…
The rise of “postcritique” signals a similar pivot in some English departments, while in the broader culture the aftermath of the Trump years has...
Dancers’ Contracts Aren’t Year-Round. So How Do They Survive The Weeks They’re Not Paid?
Generally speaking, dancers are on break during the summer — but also at the end of December after “The Nutcracker” and during the first...
Theatre’s Fundraising Problem
The traditional fundraising-during-a-downturn playbook calls on organizations to lean on mega-donors when everyday givers step back and the broader pool shrinks. But this isn’t...
Philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt, The First Great Theorist Of Bullshit, Is Dead At 94
"(His) fresh ideas about the human will were overshadowed in the broader culture by his analysis of a kind of dishonesty that he found...
Hollywood Writers’ Not-So-Secret Weapon: Teamsters Boss Lindsay Dougherty
“I’m angry, you know? Building this bond with the writers over the last six months has been great, realizing that writers fight every day...
Keeping Yiddish Alive — And Secular — In Melbourne
"Today, Yiddish is most commonly used in ultra-Orthodox communities in places like Brooklyn or Jerusalem. But in Melbourne, snatches of it can be heard...
Another Theatre Closes After 31 Years
Altogether, the Metropolitan Theatre in New York brought to light and recognition over 100 largely forgotten American plays from 1787 through to the present,...
Europe’s Most Famous Churches Are Finding It Hard To Have Worship Services Amidst All...
From Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to the Vatican to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, the challenge is that "worshippers, who often come because celebrated churches tend...
Why Mozart Still Resonates
"It is the embodiment of a set of feelings about the world that are so richly specified in each case as to amount to...
Ira Glass Talks About “This American Life” As A Business
"(In the beginning), there was no real reason for (public radio stations) to pick us up. So …we basically looked for what the stations...
Hong Kong Tries To Ban A Song As “Dangerous”
Hong Kong officials seem to fear it can, as they are seeking an injunction against a protest anthem called “Glory to Hong Kong.” Officials have asked...
Is This Wing-Shaped, Standing-On-Its-Side Baby Grand Piano Ingenious Or Ridiculous?
"Dan Harden's proposal, called the Ravenchord, is shaped like a bird's wing, with strings fanning out from the center. In concert, a pianist would...
Director of Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia Fears Italy’s Rightist Government Will Revoke The Museum’s Independence...
"Even as Cecilie Hollberg highlights her achievements at Italy's second-most-visited museum" — it's the home of Michelangelo's David — "since arriving in 2015, rumors...
At Colorado’s Central City Opera, CEO Pamela Pantos Is Suddenly Out In The Middle...
Pantos joined the summer opera festival as president in February of 2022 — with longtime company chief Pelham Pearce remaining as artistic director. But...
