Yearly Archives: 2023
What It Was Like Working With Glenda Jackson When She Returned To Acting From...
"It was the greatest privilege of my career. Glenda was overly fearless as a performer, and overly fearless as a woman. To come out...
Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Has Died At 92
His leak of the papers "led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration — serving as the...
Horror Gaming, Oddly Enough, Can Be A Real Haven For Minoritized Gamers
"LGBT and black streamers say audiences who feel marginalised in other communities feel safest and happiest when they're playing horror games. And they believe...
Workers At Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum (Finally) Vote To Unionize
"The bargaining unit includes curators, conservators, security guards, retail workers, marketers and members of various other departments," and the 60-5 vote comes after two...
Pina Bausch’s Dance Company Goes On, With Its Fifth Director Since Her Death
But what is Tanztheater Wuppertal without Bausch? Answers may come as the group celebrates its 50th anniversary. In addition, there's now "a shortlist of...
Grammy Awards Will Only Go To ‘Human Creators,’ Recording Academy Says
Some AI is OK, but not all AI. "'A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any category,' they said, under...
Brooklyn Museum Employees Have A Couple Of Weeks Accept Or Reject Final Contract Offer
The union is not enamored of the offer from the museum's negotiators. "It locks us into a long contract with much lower increases in...
Catalan Separatists Would Like University Classes Taught In The Actual Local Language
Spanish-speaking academics, and some international students, are not into it. An admininstrator: "We’re convinced that we can express ourselves in Catalan and become internationally...
Art Spiegelman On The Maus Bannings – And Book Burnings
"That’s where it got really surreal, when they decided it was sexually explicit, because anybody who could get their jollies off of Maus is probably in...
Melbourne’s ‘Stupid And Delightful’ World-Record-Breaking Kazoo Event
"Standing in the square waiting for this moment, spontaneous kazooing broke out. We kazooed to Rick Astley (Cursed). We kazooed to Pachelbel’s Canon (as...
Grammy Awards Change Their Four Flagship Races From Ten Nominees Back To Eight
"The number of nominees for those categories" — Best New Artist and Album, Song, and Record of the Year — "were suddenly expanded from...
There’s Now A One-Stop Shopping App For Theatre In New York And London
"The new venture, called Hollywood.com Live, has acquired the theater-focused media company Theatrely. Under the Hollywood.com Live banner, the venture has begun selling tickets online to Broadway,...
She’s Not A Choreographer Or Star Dancer, Yet She’s Kept Her New York Flamenco...
"In the hothouse atmosphere of flamenco dance, where passionate display of the self is prized, divas abound. But Carlota Santana isn't one of them."...
What’s The Point Of ‘Diverse’ Retellings Of Jane Austen?
"Am I, a brown-skinned immigrant daughter who never got to read about or see characters like me in novels and films, simply reclaiming these...
Online News: Fewer People Are Commenting On It, Or Even Reading It. They Prefer...
"Facebook's exit from news tracks tracks with a move toward TikTok and YouTube, and a worldwide decrease in commenting on and sharing news articles....
On The Road With Joyce DiDonato’s Climate Change Song Cycle
DiDonato: "I think there’s a lot of power in putting on a legitimate, high-level concert, but challenging the audience to take home something more...
The Rumors Were True: Astrud Gilberto Spent Her Last 24 Years Near-Anonymously In Philadelphia
"An air of mystery surrounded stories of Gilberto possibly living in Philadelphia for decades. Was she seen at the Reading Terminal Market? At Rustic...
The Satirical War Film That Churchill Tried To Ban
As The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp turns 80, it's good that Prime Minister Winston Churchill didn't get his way after writing to...
Airport Art Done Right At The New LaGuardia
"The architects of LGA's new public art program mostly sidestepped the twin traps of blandness and kitsch, demonstrating a seriousness that reflects the importance...
Presenting A Revolution In Women’s Bodies Onstage
Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger "presents women’s ability to endure discomfort as something to be celebrated, but also questioned. Our resilience is mighty and formidable...
Metropolitan Opera Sold Two-Thirds Of Its Tickets This Past Season, But The Audience Is...
"The Met sold 66% of tickets during the season that ended Saturday, up from 61% during the 2021-22 season. Sales were lower than budgeted...
Even More Artists Are Saying They’ve Been Stiffed By Brown Paper Tickets
"Representatives from several (Philadelphia-area) arts groups report selling tickets through Brown Paper Tickets only to be left hanging for weeks, months, or, in (one)...
HarperCollins And Private Equity Firm KKR Both Want To Buy Simon & Schuster: Report
"Both were among the losing bidders to Penguin Random House's $2.2 billion offer. PRH's acquisition, of course, was blocked by the government last fall."...
L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum Cancels 2023-24 Season Amid Financial Crisis
"Facing a significant budget shortfall, Center Theatre Group on Thursday announced that it would lay off about 10% of its full-time staff and pause...
Oh, Great, Now We Have Climate-Protesting Opera Vandals, Too
Three protestors from the British group Just Stop Oil used air horns and glitter cannons to interrupt Thursday's performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the...
