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Pay Equity Is Great, But Can Theater In America Afford It Without Shrinking?
Jesse Green surveys the unpaid and underpaid work that has always been part of making theater in the US, especially early in a career...
Sounds Like They’ve Finally Fixed The Acoustics At The Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall
Ever since the landmark building opened in 1973, its Concert Hall's acoustics have been notoriously bad — and resistant to improvement. Now, a 2½-year,...
A Second Staff Rebellion In Two Years At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater
This round of upheaval, sparked by the unexplained placing of the artistic director "on leave," has seen the last candidate for executive director withdraw,...
Whistleblower Group Calls For Detroit Institute Of Arts To Lose Accreditation
The founder of the organization Whistleblower Aid says that the museum has "broken IRS rules, Michigan state laws; they've broken their employment policies, their...
Librarians Get Trapped, And Even Targeted, In The Culture Wars
"Accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities, (they) have found themselves … labeled pedophiles on social media, called out by...
US Museum Attendance Hits A Post-Pandemic Plateau
"Recent data collected by Artnet from more than a dozen museums around the country suggests that attendance recovery has slowed, with some cultural institutions...
Over 1,500 Edinburgh Fringe Participants Demand Reform
"Hundreds of artists, performers, venues and promoters say it is becoming 'increasingly difficult' to justify the expense of taking part in the event, which...
In Response To Highland Park Shooting, Ravinia Festival Cancels This Week’s Concerts
The festival campus is just a couple of miles away from the site of the murders at Monday's Fourth of July parade. - MSN...
As AI Software Learns To Write Prose, Create Art, And Make Conversation, We Might...
"Current AI systems hold up a mirror to our online minds. Like Narcissus, we can get lost gazing at the reflection, even though it...
Ridley Scott Called These Studios “The Finest Facilities In The World”. The EU Shut...
"One of Spain's most notorious and costly white elephants, the Ciudad de la Luz (City of Light) film studios in Alicante, is to get...
America’s 150 Largest Ballet Companies And Where They Stood Financially In FY2020
DDP's latest report reflects the first part of the toll the pandemic shutdown took on the troupes — and it shows, yet again, just...
Can Cultural Institutions Help Heal Countries Torn Up By Civil War? Look To Bosnia
"Bosnia and Herzegovina share a painful legacy — yet, today, they live an enduring peace. Cities such as Sarajevo and Srebrenica are now largely...
A New Golden Age For Black British Theatre
"A raft of productions from Black theatre-makers have been making waves, garnering critical acclaim and exciting audiences. Black writers and directors are relishing telling...
Women From Trinidad Like Monique Roffey Are Reinvigorating Caribbean Literature
Roffey's The Mermaid of Black Conch "joins an impressive wave of recent books by Trinidadian women writers, including Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love and...
Arts Audiences In Australia Are Coming Back, Even As COVID Cases Rise Again
"Venues and organisations are frantically having to deal with a programming backlog and process delayed projects still 'on the books'. And from the visitor's...
“Country-House Opera” In England Is Thriving, And Not Just At Glyndebourne
Two hours south of London, Glyndebourne is the oldest and most famous of the summer opera festivals at the historic country homes of the...
Bass René Pape Gets Himself Into A Heap of Trouble With A Drunken Facebook...
Last week, after the Met's chorus posted an item about the company's participation in NYC's Pride festivities, Pape added a borderline-incoherent comment saying he...
Anti-Oil Protesters Glue Themselves To More Art In London Museums
On Monday, their target was Constable's The Hay Wain at the National Gallery; on Tuesday, it was a 500-year-old student copy of Leonardo's The...
How Exactly Do They Get Fireworks To Create Fancy Shapes In The Sky?
No longer must holiday fireworks look like either meteors or weeping willows. Pyrotechnicians can make the shells show smiley faces, words, and even dandelions...
Refugee Ukrainian Dancers Have Formed A New Ballet Company In Europe, And They Have...
United Ukrainian Ballet, as the company is called, have set up a headquarters in the former Royal Conservatory building in The Hague. Their next...
At A Comedy Club In Lviv, Finding Humor In The War
When some local comedians realized that one basement comedy club is a designated bomb shelter, they started a regular show there. They call it...
What Will Be The New Australian Government’s Arts Policy?
The new Labor government's Arts Minister is also the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: Tony Burke. He indicates particular interested in job security...
HBO Max Will Stop Making Original Programming For Large Swaths Of Europe
"As the (new Warner Bros. Discovery) media conglomerate looks to recalibrate its streaming priorities, it will no longer produce originals for HBO Max in...
Peter Brook’s Death “Marks The End Of A Theatrical Era”
"His work, weaned on modernism, liberated by postmodernism and forever revisiting the classics, cared little about aesthetic ideology but was deeply rooted in history....
Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” Has Been An Orchestra Favorite For The Fourth Of July. But...
"Some groups decided to skip it, arguing that its bellicose themes would be offensive during wartime. Others, eager to show solidarity with Ukraine, added...
