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Do we know how changing prices affects the income-diversity of audiences?
Real care has to be taken with comparing data on prices and audience characteristics, because the prices were set in the first place as...
A New York Times Critic Sees His First Play Since COVID — In The...
Jose Solís: "Theater in my hometown? 'A lot has changed since you've been gone,' said Inma López, a producer and ensemble member at Casa...
What Goodreads Has Done To My Reading, And Why I’m Giving It Up
"Quantifying, dissecting and broadcasting our most-loved hobbies sucks the joy out of them. I find myself glancing towards the corner of the page to...
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Prepares To Live-Stream From Its Stage
"'The whole process here is to recreate the experience for the audience,' said Falls. 'The audience chooses which performance they want to see,...
Can Los Angeles Re-Establish Itself As A Cultural Capital Post-Pandemic?
"In many ways the challenges here are more intense and complex, in no small part because the virus hit at a time when so...
Benin Bronzes Are Still Being Made Today (Who Knew?)
In Benin City, in what was historically the metalworkers' quarter on and around Igun Street, skilled artists continue to make figures with the traditional...
In Egypt, 250 Ancient Tombs Discovered, Some More Than 4,000 Years Old
The burial places, all cut into rock, were found by accident in one part of a larger necropolis in Upper Egypt. Some date back...
Metropolitan Opera Returns To Stage (But Not Its Own) For First Time Since COVID...
"Members of the company's orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at...
Phylicia Rashad Named Dean Of Howard University’s New College Of Fine Arts
The award-winning actor, herself a Howard alumna, will be the first dean of the re-established college. The nation's leading historically Black university folded its...
Ex-English National Ballet Principal Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Students
"Yat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016. The...
The Sweet Old Professor Who Saved Iceland’s Ancient Literary Heritage From Danish Fire
Árni Magnússon, who undertook Iceland's first-ever census and land survey, was a near-obsessive manuscript collector; he gathered many thousands of medieval documents, sagas, and...
What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure?...
Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets...
Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned Most Of Hollywood’s History, Dead At 106
He started his working life onstage with Eva Le Gallienne and Orson Welles; acted in films by Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, and Hitchcock (he was...
With New Hosts, NPR’s ‘Invisibilia’ Podcast Is Reorienting Itself
"'Something we've thought about for a long time is how the show has historically had a strong emphasis on the individual and the internal...
Most Plays Are Just Better Without Intermissions
Charles McNulty: "I prefer to experience plays the way I experience films at the movie theater — uninterrupted. At night when I awake momentarily...
Race Is On To Save Boston Mansion Designed, Inside And Out, By Louis Comfort...
"The mansion was recently listed for sale — along with an adjoining building — with an asking price of $22.5 million. That has caused...
Dance With Prosthetic Limbs Is Getting More And More Creative
"Consider Belgian hip-hop artist Angelina Bruno. A star of the European dance circuit whose right arm was amputated at the forearm as a teenager,...
I Have A Prosthetic Leg. Dancing Has Transformed My Relationship With It.
Mickaella Dantas: "It took me a while to consider working with my prosthesis, since it has a limited range of flexibility. I struggled with...
One Down, Two To Go: Met Opera Reaches Labor Agreement With Chorus
"The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists — which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — is the first of the...
Turner Prize Finalist Group Calls Out Turner Prize: ‘Extractive And Exploitative’
From the statement released by Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), one of five art-and-social-justice collectives nominated for this year's prize: "The urgency with which...
West End Theatre Folk Look Eagerly, Nervously Toward Reopening
"What's it actually like for the theatermakers who are starting work again after 15 months? Has the pandemic shaped the way they think about...
Status Report: When And How Various Countries Are Restarting Their Arts Scenes
Here's where plans currently stand in Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Spain, as well as the U.S. -...
Maybe Hollywood Could Just Give Up On The Golden Globes Entirely
Kyle Buchanan: "That's the thing about awards: These trophies are only as important as the recipients believe them to be, and now that the...
The WPA is history
New York City has announced a new program, City Artist Corps, inspired by FDR's Works Progress Administration. There are two major problems with launching...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today — Premiered
As I put it in a program note: “It’s a COVID-period entertainment: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a dry, caustic...
