Yearly Archives: 2023
And Another Theatre! Chicago’s LookingGlass Theatre Lays Off Staff, “Pauses” Productions
The ensemble-driven theater, founded by a close-knit group of Northwestern University classmates and friends in 1988, famously has produced original work for the last...
Beloved DC Theatre Leader Dies
In its nearly half-century as a fixture on the region’s vibrant theater scene — GALA (short for Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos) orbited around Hugo’s...
Controversy Over Translation At The British Museum
As momentum grows behind the criticism of the museum, it is a good time for all of us to consider how we value and...
Why Canada Is Aggressively Growing
Canada’s zeal for greater population inflows is matched by its determination to recruit the best and the brightest en masse. The country’s points-based immigration...
Trisha Brown Dance Gets A New Director
Most recently, Kristin Kapustik served as the Executive Director for six years at The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc, a nonprofit that produces...
The Culture Bubble Has Popped
The present contraction has not only slowed down the cultural assembly line but also led to the erasure of the product itself. The issue...
25 Years Ago, This Critic Made Some Literary Predictions. He Revisits.
How do those books and authors strike me now? For one thing, that mini pantheon makes clear why old-fashioned literary histories employed phrases like...
The Great Tchaikovsky Competition, Much Diminished By Russia’s War
As the storied competition unfolds this month for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and became a pariah in the West, it is...
Robert Sherman, A Fixture At Classical Radio Station WQXR For 68 Years, Is Dead...
"For nearly 70 years, Bob Sherman worked his radio magic at WQXR, wearing almost every imaginable hat along the way. … In addition to...
TV Game Shows Are Still Thriving. Why?
Game shows offer two big benefits for executives: They are one of the least expensive programs to create, in part because many episodes can...
Teaching Rohingya Children To Read And Write Their Language For The First Time
"The Rohingya language remained an oral tradition until the 1980s, when scholar Mohammad Hanif developed a script based on Arabic letters" — only to...
Want Happiness? Compete To Be An Also-Ran
Fortunately, there is a formula to solve this problem without unrealistically suggesting that we dispense entirely with our competitive urge: Instead of always going...
Maxine Peake’s New Theatre Company Is Staging An Artists’ Dystopia In A Manchester Library
Kay Dick's 1977 novel They depicts a world in which any painter who creates beyond an official limit is blinded, any musician deafened, etc....
Chicago Reconsiders Its Public Monuments
So much for those romanticized images of noble Native Americans blissfully welcoming their European plunderers. Or, alternatively, attacking them. - Chicago Reader
The Chicago Symphony Brass Section Is A Hotbed Of Period Instruments (Who Knew?)
We're not talking valveless Baroque trumpets or 16th-century sacbuts, mind you, but several of the CSO's musicians are serious collectors of trumpets and trombones...
Virginia Johnson Joined Dance Theatre Of Harlem In 1969 As A Dancer. Now She’s...
"Those early years of Dance Theatre of Harlem were extremely — it was a lean time for us. It was a small company. We...
Actor Alan Arkin, 89
"(His) background in improvisation and knack for comic drama were cornerstones of his genre-hopping career that yielded enduring characters from the 1960s comedy The...
In Some Cities, Libraries Are Remaking Themselves As Locations For Remote Workers
"In addition to resources such as free internet and printer access, they're building up offerings aimed at small-business owners and professionals, renovating to include...
In US Contemporary Dance Companies, The Leadership Is Largely Female: Dance Data Project
"Clearly, the contemporary and modern dance world offer far more leadership opportunities for women than classical dance. However, as noted in the first report,...
If The Actors In SAG-AFTRA Go On Strike Next Week, This Is Why
"Despite tensions, guild leaders said that talks with the studios have been 'extremely productive.' But key differences remain, and the union is under heavy...
As The Legislative Session Ended, Oregon Lawmakers Shortchanged The Arts
"A 2023 session that began hopefully for the state's arts and cultural industries ended in deep disappointment, with many requests rejected outright or funded...
For The Second Time This Year, British Museum Workers Will Go On A Weeklong...
"Visitors services and security staff in the Public and Commercial Services union have announced that they will walk off the job July 11-16. The...
Union Accuses Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Management Of Reneging On Pay Raises In Contract
"Less than a year after a bitter, nearly three-week long strike, the (museum) and its workers are again locked in a dispute — this...
New Canadian Literary Press Launches
The press, which is entirely self-funded, at least for the time being, will focus on literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. - Toronto Star
Study: Intelligent People Take Longer To Solve Tough Problems
The study showed that "while people with higher intelligence scores solved the easy problems quicker, they took longer to solve the difficult ones, apparently...
