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San Diego Opera’s Ticket Sales This Season Were $1 Million Below Projections, But The...
Thank heaven for COVID relief grants. And advance ticket sales for the coming season look promising. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Antonio Banderas And Andrew Lloyd Webber Are Forming A Production Company For Live Performance...
Amigos Para Siempre ("friends forever"), as the firm is called, will produce musicals, plays, and other live events for Spanish-speaking markets throughout the world,...
Can We Cut Poor Old Polonius A Break?
"Polonius isn't a good father. Good fathers don't make good drama. But he's a good character, more complex than critics usually recognize. Polonius is...
How A Phantasmagorical Poem By Charles Darwin’s Grandfather First Set Down In Words The...
In 1789, Erasmus Darwin — physician, pathologist, abolitionist, and botanist as well as poet — published a strange set of cantos under the title...
Australia’s Busy Alt-Circus Scene Tries To Bounce Back (Ahem) From The Pandemic
It's an inventive — and animal-free — bunch of troupes with names like A Good Catch and Gravity and Other Myths. But they're not...
Want To See How Exactly Broadway Bares? Like This.
In 1992, in a Manhattan gay club, eight hunky dancers did stripteases on the bar to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Thus...
How James Turrell Was Inspired By Quaker Meetinghouses
"The artist recalls asking his grandmother what they were meant to do inside the meetinghouse, to which she replied: 'We're going inside to greet...
City Of Philadelphia Increases Arts Funding To (Slightly) Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
"The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the main vehicle for supporting arts organizations in the city..., saw its budget increase to $3.5 million for fiscal 2023,...
Maybe Alt-Weeklies Aren’t Dying Out After All
"(As) with the robust launch of online local newsrooms in the last two years, some alts are finding new ground in old traditions. Here...
In This Depressed Scottish Housing Project, El Sistema Is Working
"No-one is pretending there has been a miracle here, but 15 years ago, if the Raploch was known at all, it was known for...
“Metamorphosis”: How Musicians Are Trying To Build A Successor To The San Antonio Symphony
The group of musicians that organized public concerts this spring (before the board shut the orchestra down) is now working on the logistics of...
Netflix Lays Off Almost 3% Of Its Workforce
The streaming giant has let go of 300 employees, just a month after a previous round of 150 layoffs (plus many part-timers and contractors)....
Opera’s Diversity Problem Isn’t Only Onstage
The new study by Opera America found that, in North America, only about 20% of employees are people of color, compared with 39% of...
Salsa In Syria: Social Dancing Classes Offer Damascans A Brief Escape From The Stresses...
"For (the) students, ballroom dancing is a form of release, finding rhythm in music away from their country's many social and economic pressures. For...
The Costa Book Awards Really Did Make A Difference (A Eulogy)
"The USP of the Whitbreads, which morphed into the Costas 14 years before they were abruptly scrapped this month, was that they didn't buy...
For The First Time, An LGBTQ Studies Scholar Wins The $500,000 Kluge Humanities Prize
The honoree is historian George Chauncey, best known for the multi-award-winning Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male...
The L.A. Times Sets Up Its Own “Meme Team” (And You Won’t See Its...
It's called The 404, and "video — especially on TikTok — (will) be the first priority. Other areas of concentration will be images (think:...
What’s Behind The Closing Notices For Long-Running Broadway Musicals?
Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and Tina did solid business before the pandemic. Yet with tourism to New York City still down, they've...
The Bind Facing Black American Playwrights: How Do You Offer Deliverance, Or Even Hope,...
"How can these stories end? What does deliverance look like in a world in which the odds are stacked against these Black characters, and...
The San Antonio Symphony Is Dead, But Its Musicians Will Keep Giving Concerts
"After playing three concerts this spring, the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony is making plans for a fall season in which it hopes...
Yes, San Antonio Can Have The Professional Symphony Orchestra It Deserves
"Not only is a reborn symphony possible, but ... it is essential to the quality of life in San Antonio, and preservation of the...
Despite The Symphony’s Death, There’s A Thriving Chamber Orchestra In San Antonio
"Unlike the symphony, it's a young institution. Unlike the symphony, it has diversity and inclusiveness deep in its DNA. ... Its performing artists hail...
Librarians Find A Dürer Just Sitting There In An Old Book On Their Shelves
"During a recent inventory audit, researchers at the Oldenburg State Library (in Germany) found on the title page of the book (the) small drawing....
James Rado, Co-Creator Of The Musical “Hair”, Dead At 90
Contrary to popular lore, Rado and collaborator (and then-lover) Gerome Ragni weren't out-of-work actors writing themselves roles (they played Claude and Berger), they were...
The Obamas Move Their Media Company From Spotify To Audible
The agreement between the company, called Higher Ground, and Spotify was not renewed because of disagreements over both content and distribution. The new deal...
