Yearly Archives: 2023
The Stage: 100 Most Influential People In Theatre
The Stage 100 in 2023 is the first ‘traditional’ version of the list since early 2020, pre-Covid. It returns slightly altered. - The Stage
Broadway Notches Best Box Office Week Since 2019
The 33 shows grossed $51.9 million, the most since the final week of 2019. And “The Lion King” notched a remarkable milestone: It grossed...
This Is What Happens When Government Meddles In Arts Funding
It does not benefit either the arts or the government for politicians to be involved in arts funding. The current controversy is an excellent...
ABT Director Susan Jaffe On How She Programs A Season
In this video interview, Jaffe talks with Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema about inspiration, engagement, production, and creating or incubating new works. -...
EU Hefty Ruling Against Meta/Facebook Could Change Social Media
E.U. regulators found that Meta’s decision to place the clause allowing it to collect personalized user data deep in its terms of service more...
How A 38-Year-Old Don DeLillo Novel Nails The 2020s
"While White Noise is intentionally specific to 1985, the tendencies described have only intensified. … The same tensions DeLillo mined so eloquently still grip...
Apple Introduces Audiobooks Voiced By AI
On the company’s Books app, searching for “AI narration” reveals the catalogue of works included in the scheme, which are described as being “narrated...
Live Performances Of Podcasts Are Attracting Huge Audiences
"Compared with 2013, the number of events has gone up by 2,000%, no doubt helped along in the past year by the COVID-driven rise...
Bankruptcy Judge Tells Regal Theatres’ Parent Company To Close More Theatres
Cineworld has closed 23 theaters since filing and reached new lease agreements with 25% of landlords — a percentage that clearly failed to impress the...
The Science Of New Year’s Resolutions (Data Say They Work)
When the researchers predicted how many of them would stick to their resolutions after six months, their expectations ranged from 10% to 25%. The...
The First Published Black Composer Is Enjoying A Renaissance After More Than 400 Years...
Until 2020, very few music fans had heard of Vicente Lusitano; even those music history scholars knew him only for a treatise and a...
50 Years Of Ms. Magazine, Remembered Year By Year
"Ms. Magazine was a brazen act of independence when it launched 50 years ago. First introduced to the world as an insert in New...
“The Lion King” Just Had The Most Lucrative Week Of Any Broadway Show Ever
"Last week, Disney's The Lion King grossed $4,315,264 in ticket sales, which is the most any Broadway show has ever made from a single...
Fay Weldon, Author, Screenwriter, And Unorthodox Feminist, Is Dead At 91
"A polemicist whose opinions shaped themselves around the plot of her latest book, a pragmatist who giggled her way through every sentence, she was...
Ten Years Of The Prototype Festival, New York’s Hotbed Of Award-Winning Chamber Opera
Founded in 2013 during what had been the slow weeks of mid-January, Prototype — which has already produced two operas that went on to...
The Philly Pops Is Working On A Plan To Save Itself
"Citing public dismay at news that the Philly Pops would shut down at the end of this season, leaders of the group have reversed...
British Museum Confirms That It’s Negotiating An Arrangement To Return The Parthenon Marbles To...
"'We've said publicly, we're actively seeking a new Parthenon partnership with our friends in Greece and as we enter a new year constructive discussions...
When Blogs Changed Our Relationships With Music
By the mid-aughts, starting a blog was easier than ever. Streaming hadn’t yet taken over our listening habits, but Web connections were speedy enough...
How Stan Lee Reinvented The Comics
The 1960s were Stan Lee’s most astonishing decade, during which he came up with ideas and scripts for the first appearances of such heroes as the...
Artists’ Studios Are Less Refuges As They Are Places Of Tumult
The Artist’s Studio describes how a noisome cockpit of lust, crime and virtuosity produced innovations in how art gets made, and by whom. - The...
Are We So Addicted To Narratives That We’re Corrupted By Them?
Peter Brooks’s fear is that we are so over-saturated with story that we have become undiscerning consumers, slipping too willingly into the familiar rhythms...
A Short History Of Art Hung Upside Down
Those museums don't always get it right. - The Art Newspaper
By Design: Why There Are No Seats In New York City’s New Train Station
One of the animating principles of modern civic life is to make public resources increasingly inaccessible in order to prevent public resources from being...
The Icelandic Language Is Full Of Scots And Irish Gaelic, Argues Researcher
"A book by Thorvaldur Fridriksson, an Icelandic archaeologist and journalist, argues that Gaelic-speaking Celtic settlers from Ireland and western Scotland had a profound impact...
Study: A Third Of Theatre Directors Are Considering Quitting Over Working Conditions
When asked why, participants’ responses included how "theatre direction just doesn’t pay a living wage", with another claiming "the pay and hours are terrible"....
