Yearly Archives: 2023
For John Adams, Revising “Girls Of The Golden West” Was Harder Than Composing It
"It was not well received, and I was devastated by the reaction. ... It was way too long in San Francisco and Amsterdam. The...
France’s Cesar Nominations Include Many For A Movie About An Injured Dancer
"Cédric Klapisch’s Rise, about a ballet dancer (Marion Barbeau) who, after an injury, seeks a new future in contemporary dance, picked up 9 César nominations."...
DC’s Theater J, One Of America’s Leading Jewish Theater Companies, Appoints A New Artistic...
Hayley Finn, 48, is a career-long specialist in new plays and has conducted workshops for nearly 1,000 scripts. She's currently associate artistic director of...
Justin Peck Has Created New York City Ballet’s First Evening-Length Abstract Ballet In 55...
Which is to say, not since George Balanchine's Jewels (1967). Premiering this week, Peck's Copland: Dance Episodes is also City Ballet's first use of...
Rupert Murdoch Calls Off The Reunification Of News Corp. And Fox
"Rupert Murdoch sent letters to the board of directors of News Corp. and Fox Corp. on Tuesday, informing both groups he had decided to...
India Bans BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi And Deadly 2002 Riots
The Modi Question examines the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state in 2002 and the role in it played by Modi, who was then the...
Everett Quinton, Who Kept The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. Alive, Is Dead At 71
A seminal presence in both Off-Off-Broadway and queer theater, Ridiculous was founded by playwright/director/actor Charles Ludlam in the late 1960s. Quinton became Ludlam's partner...
John Williams Is, Again, The Most Oscar-Nominated Person Alive
With the Academy's nod for his score for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, the 90-year-old composer has tallied 53 nominations (and counting), trailing only Walt...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Appoints Chief Curator Asma Naeem Director
"After its last leader departed to head the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art has named a new director:...
Hollywood Won’t Survive Without Actual Movie Theatres
"The solution ... is simple: Put new releases exclusively in theaters and give them a real chance to succeed with paying moviegoers. No more...
Rereading Russian Classics In The Shadow Of The War In Ukraine
"The idea that great novels disclose universal human truths, or contain a purely literary meaning that transcends national politics, wasn’t evenly distributed across the...
Could Music Therapy Help Ease Long COVID?
"It seems ironic that music, one of the fields hardest hit by the global pandemic, may prove to be an effective treatment specifically for...
The Academic Career Is Broken
And half-assed reforms aren't going to fix it. "It’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether...
Little Free Library Expands Its Work Into Indian Country
"Little Free Library's ... latest initiative, the Indigenous Library Program, which launches this spring, will provide book-sharing boxes for installation on tribal lands, as...
Why Are British MPs Declaring War On Opera?
Their reasoning: "Patronising claptrap. So, young people will only accept opera if it’s put on in a car park. The lower orders can make do...
Dick Polich, Fabricator To The Stars Of Modern American Sculpture, Is Dead At 90
"Louise Bourgeois, ... Nancy Graves, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella all relied on Mr. Polich and his team of some 100 artisans...
The Nominations, Snubs, And Surprises For This Year’s Academy Awards
The fun, searing, rapidly movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led with nominations, but some actors, movies, and directors were - explicably or not...
One Of Edinburgh’s Leading Theatres Could Close After Money To Complete Renovation Runs Out
Funding for the King's Theatre rehab had been secured at the project's original budget of £25.7 million, but COVID-related delays, supply chain issues and...
The Arts Collective Ousted In Vienna Speaks Out
At the heart of the conflict: What is Austria? "We were trying to look beyond the Western canon as the only idea of what...
Who Was The Elise That Beethoven Wrote His Piano Piece Für? She Didn’t Exist,...
"In a forthcoming book, Why Beethoven, Norman Lebrecht presents evidence that the Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor has been known as Für Elise...
Dallas Paper Tries Replacing Its Architecture Critic With Artificial Intelligence
Things didn't go well: "Because an AI program can’t 'be there,' it ends up, like a lazy college freshman, culling what material it can...
TikTok Is Experimenting With Podcasting (Well, That’s What They’re Calling It)
"The test allows users to listen to the audio featured in TikTok videos in the background. Until now, putting TikTok into the background paused...
Carlos Acosta And Birmingham Royal Ballet Launch A Second Company
As with ABT Studio, Ailey II, and other companies (largely in the US), BRB2 will offer limited-term contracts (in this case, two years) to...
Maybe Ticketmaster Doesn’t Deserve All The Rage Directed At It. (Some, But Not All.)
"Over a dozen interviews with former Ticketmaster executives, managers, economists, lawmakers, antitrust experts, fans and industry insiders, many agreed that Ticketmaster is enormous and...
They’re Not “Mummies,” They’re “Mummified Persons”
Some, though not all, museums in the UK have started moving away from the term "mummy" to describe deliberately preserved human remains from ancient...
