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Actor’s Equity Blacklists Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky
"The actors and stage managers of (Paradise Square) asked for Drabinsky to be put on the 'Do Not Work' list due to 'outstanding payments...
Arizona Just Got The Biggest Chunk Of Arts Funding It’s Ever Had
From 2008 to 2012, the Arizona Commission on the Arts had a regular line, about $550,000, in the state budget; since then, the agency...
The Death Of The “Voice Of God”: Traditional Voiceover Narrators Are Disappearing From Documentaries
Starting in the 1990s, traditional documentaries started to be replaced by personality-driven nonfiction films whose directors (e.g., Michael Moore, Werner Herzog) were more than...
Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair And The Inevitable Fade Of The American Glossy Magazine
"What happens when legacy magazines can no longer rely on their reputation to get readers, let alone party invites? Condé Nast's magazines, especially Carter's...
Winning A Professional Orchestra Audition Is Very Difficult. Then Comes The Trial Year.
Jeffrey Arlo Brown writes about the tricky, nerve-wracking process that two young trumpeters went through. One passed his trial, the other failed hers —...
Looted African Treasures Are Returned From Paris To Benin
Mind you, these aren't the Benin Bronzes, which come from what's now southwestern Nigeria. These were taken by French colonial soldiers in the late...
The North Of England Gets Its First Shakespearian Theatre Since Shakespeare’s Own Day
The town of Prescot, a few miles from Liverpool, was once home to the only freestanding Elizabethan theatre outside London. That's the case once...
A Sizeable Roman City, Unknown Until Now, Has Been Discovered Near The Spanish Pyrenees
Archaeologists report that the site, about 20 miles southeast of Pamplona, was "of urban character — the city's name is currently unknown — and...
Authorities Replace Moscow’s Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Old Theater
In 2012, Serebrennikov took over the stultified Gogol Theater, rechristened it the Gogol Center, and made it Moscow's most daring stage, regularly irking the...
Beloved Conductor Bramwell Tovey Dead At 69
Artistic leader of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and, as of the coming season, the Sarasota Orchestra, Tovey spent widely admired tenures...
A Census Of Every Single Dance Worker In New York City
The project by the nonprofit Dance/NYC "seeks to understand who makes up the dance work force and the social and financial hardships that these...
Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty To Sexual Assault In London; Trial Date Set
"(The actor) appeared at the U.K.'s historic Old Bailey criminal court on Thursday morning, where he pleaded not guilty to all five counts of...
The Six Lines And Five Colors That Changed The Course Of Western Art
Deborah Nicholls-Lee offers a consideration of Piet Monrdian's Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey (1922). - BBC
Some Mexican Artists Are Using A New Medium: Piñatas
"A growing number of Latino artists are working to broaden and elevate how Americans view piñatas and (their) history. Some are carving out a...
At What Point Should We Consider Animals, Or Even AI, “Persons” In A Moral...
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and...
The Waggle-Dancing Of Bees Has Inspired A New Means Of Robot Communication
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international...
So Many Writers Wish They Could Just Redo Their First Novel. Akhil Sharma Did.
"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but...
English In India: The Colonial Oppressor’s Language? Not Anymore.
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic...
As The Russian Invasion Rages, At Odesa Opera The Show Must Go On
Mary Harris interviews Katarina Tsymbalyuk, a mezzo and a member of the Odesa Opera's resident ensemble, about the love, and the fear, she and...
Turning The Notre-Dame De Paris Conflagration Into A Disaster Movie
When the president of Pathé approached filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose) about making a documentary about the catastrophic...
Actors’ Equity And IATSE Sue Producers Of “Paradise Square” For Non-Payment
"Actors' Equity and the union representing theatrical designers are separately taking Broadway musical Paradise Square to court for close to $350,000 total in owed...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
