Yearly Archives: 2023
The Joffrey Ballet Is Attacked On Social Media For Staging “Anna Karenina”
As one commenter put it, "It looks like you've been living under a rock for the past year, but at least try to read...
Oregon Ballet Theatre Appoints A New Artistic Director, Its Third In Two Years
"Oregon Ballet Theatre has announced that Dani Rowe will become its next artistic director, effective February 27, after an 18-month search. The company has...
Playbill’s CEO Personally Suppressed A Story About Bad Audience Behavior
Said Philip Birsh, whose family has owned Playbill for over five decades, "We want people to go to the theater. This piece exaggerated the...
Pompidou Center Will Set Up An Outpost In Saudi Arabia
"After expanding its horizons in Málaga, Shanghai and Brussels, with the prospect of a spinoff in the pipeline for Jersey City, United States, in...
One Of Broadway’s Big Three Theater Owners Merges With London’s Ambassador Theatre Group
Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway venues, is combining operations with ATG, which operates more than 50 venues, mostly in Britain, as well as...
NYC’s New Ohio Theatre To Close After 30 Years
The theater, originally known as the Ohio Theater and located off Wooster Street in SoHo, was founded as a nonprofit in 1993, and before...
The Paris Street Artist Who Became Ubiquitous
“I was invading public space with a mosaic of a small character whose role is to invade,” said the artist. A quarter-century later, it...
Art Collectives Were The Next Big Thing. What Happened?
Dreams of collectivity in the financialized and non-financialized zones of the art world have deep roots. But they were usually outside the door of...
Confronting Classical Music’s Burn-Out Culture
By stepping into a conservatory, we are encouraged to maintain packed-out schedules, work beyond the point of exhaustion, and have pristine social media accounts...
How Architects Fixed Geffen Hall’s Acoustics
While getting the sound of the orchestral hall right was a heavy lift, the architects and designers also had to contend with another problem in...
Public Television Is Irrelevant. Let’s Fix It
The time is right to revisit and revise the Public Broadcasting Act. A revised and reauthorized act would identify and direct resources to needs...
A Brief History Of Valentine’s Day Cards
"Fertility-related customs have been celebrated in mid-February since pagan times. ... By the 18th century, we see something that begins to resemble modern Valentine's...
Twitter Is Collapsing Because Humans Aren’t Wired To Have That Many “Friends”
The reason the Babel story matters is not that it happened once but that it happens over and over: We Babelize and de-Babelize. The...
California’s Greatest Poet Wrote Exactly One Poem In English And None In Spanish. Can...
"Want to become a signature voice of your troubled nation? Perhaps you need a decades-long exile in California. It worked for Czesław Miłosz, who...
Rise Of The Intellectual Influencer Economy
As higher education continues to over-produce PhDs, many have sought an alternative path. This is a new niche of the online info-tainment ecosystem. These intellectual...
BBC News Staffers Move Near Mutiny Over Chairman’s Political Interference And BoJo Scandal
"The chairman is supposed to maintain the independence of the BBC," observed one insider about Richard Sharp, "but has said publicly it has a...
Readers Are Just Full Of Pet Peeves About Books
Apparently, book lovers have been storing up their pet peeves in the cellar for years, just waiting for someone to ask. Hundreds and hundreds...
Northeastern University In Boston Bought Mills College In Oakland To Save It From Closing. ...
"The tension at the school, now known as Mills College at Northeastern University, reflects the challenges that colleges face when merging campus cultures and...
Making Dance After Being Incarcerated And Then Catching COVID
"Paper became a backbone for the project, and therefore a large part of the soundscore for Data. As dancers move throughout the piece, the...
Reporter At West Virginia Public Broadcasting Fired Due To Interference By State Officials
"Interviews with 20 people with direct knowledge of events at WVPB indicate Amelia Ferrell Knisely's involuntary departure from her position as a part-time reporter...
Composer Friedrich Cerha, Who Completed Berg’s “Lulu”, Is Dead At 96
"As well as composing, he has done important work as a conductor (of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw amongst others), teacher (his...
King’s Singers Florida Concert Cancelled Two Hours Before Curtain Because Of Performers’ “Lifestyle”
It seems Pensacola Christian College, where the group had sung before without incident, got wind that some members of the sextet are gay. The...
Ballet Director Suspended After Rubbing Critic’s Face With His Dachshund’s Poop
On Saturday, enraged at her harsh review of his new piece In the Dutch Mountains (get it?), Hannover State Opera ballet director Marco Goecke...
Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center Ticketing System Is Paralyzed By Hackers
"The ticketing systems of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. remained hobbled for a fifth day Monday following a cyber attack that struck...
“Catastrophic Consequences”: Edinburgh Fringe Venues Beg Government Not To Clamp Down On Airbnb-Style Rentals
The expansion of short-term rentals has been pricing out Edinburgh residents for years. But the cost of accommodation for festival performers and visitors has...
