Yearly Archives: 2023
Michael Lewis At A Crossroads?
What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he...
U.S. Theater Is In Crisis? Not In Branson, Missouri. Maybe There’s A Lesson To...
"Approximately eight times a week, 40 weeks a year, Broadway-sized crowds watch (the musical) Queen Esther in a town of 12,000 people in the...
One Seattle Theatre Adopts Another’s Scene Shop As It Goes Out Of Business
“We’re all trying to figure out what it is that makes people get off their couch, come through the rain and show up at...
How Lisa Simone Made Peace With Brilliant, Tormented (And Tormenting) Mother Nina
"Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun,...
Study: Working Conditions At US Museums Are Terrible
68% of art museum workers have considered leaving the field, 74% cannot always cover basic living expenses, and it takes an average of 12...
American Tourist Attacks Two Ancient Roman Statues In Jerusalem
"Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues (at the Israel Museum)...
Remembering Parterre’s James Jorden
Here was a zine, and then a website, dedicated to “remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way...
Revisiting The First Book Banned In The United States
Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New...
When Theatre Is Ailing, What Should Be The Role Of The Critic?
"I ask myself whether, as so many theater companies grapple with ongoing pandemic-related challenges, I should reconceive my role. What ought arts criticism look...
The Gay Neo-Hula Master Of San Francisco Who Just Won A MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The MacArthur Foundation's citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a "cultural preservationist," but it's not that simple. "I don’t take traditional dance elements and...
Meet One Of Hollywood’s Most Revered, Most Ingenious, And Most Obsessive Set Designers
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a...
UNESCO Is Developing A Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
"Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million...
Dallas Theater Center’s “Rocky Horror Show” Is Now Part Of The Resistance
Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas's flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of...
Industry Leaders In Theater, Dance, And Music Talk About What’s Changed In New York...
"(WNYC's Sean) Carlson spoke to Casey York of the Off-Broadway League, Anna Glass of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Jake Rosenthal of Elsewhere in...
Sexual Harassment Has Lessened In Hollywood, But It’s Definitely Not Gone: Survey
"The latest WIF survey found 59% of respondents agreed the culture around sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood workplaces had improved in the...
Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Otobong Nkanga For Work That “Resonates Across...
The 49-year-old Nigerian is the first winner from Africa and the first since the award changed from annual to biennial. The $100,000 prize is...
North Carolina Station Will Air Met Opera Broadcasts After All
“It was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the music director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in an interview....
Ian McEwan Speaks Out Against Sensitivity Readers
He described sensitivity reading as “a weird thing that happens in some universities, which we got from the United States”. - The Guardian
Margaret Atwood Reviews A Story By AI Margaret Atwood
Prompt: Can you write a dark and dystopian short story in the voice of Margaret Atwood that takes place in Canada? - The Walrus
AI Musicians And Personalities – Competition For The Real Humans
Musicologist Dr Shara Rambarran says virtual influencers-turned-popstars entering the arena may unsettle IRL (in real life) musicians "who want to put their music out...
Researchers Want To Declare Leading Theory Of Consciousness “Pseudoscience”
Earlier this month, the consciousness science community erupted into chaos. An open letter, signed by 124 researchers—some specializing in consciousness and others not—made the provocative...
Study: Classical Music Audiences’ Heartbeats, Breathing Synchronizes During Concerts
Various measurements became more synchronised during the concerts, such as the participants’ heart rates, breathing speeds and their skin conductance, which measures how much someone is...
New York City Ballet Has Paid Peter Martins Over $2.8 Million Since He Was...
"Martins, who resigned as the organization’s ballet master in chief in January 2018 in the wake of sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse...
Powerful Disney Theatrical Division Head To Be Chief Creative Officer
Thomas Schumacher, who is 65 and currently holds the titles of president and producer of Disney Theatrical Group, told his staff on Thursday morning...
The Writers’ Strike Is Over, But Writers For This Show Are Refusing To Return...
"Following controversy surrounding (The Drew Barrymore Show's) return to production amid the writers’ strike — a choice that Barrymore said she 'owned' — Chelsea...
