Cancellations due to flooded theatres, reschedulings, and an art project that was about rain but needed a dry site for the actual installation. Feels like the early days of COVID, but, you know, climate change. - Los Angeles Times
Marlee Matlin, Billy Porter, and Michael Chiklis discovered the other side of the camera with TV episodes in a new series. Chiklis: "One of the wonderful thing about directing is your creative mind really is firing on all cylinders. You’re creating the narrative." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Since making petroglyph hunting their collective hobby, in 2016, the three enthusiasts have transformed knowledge about prehistoric art in Norway, more than doubling the number of carvings known in their home region." - The New York Times
The writer "is narrating his ongoing drama but also conjuring past memories, musing about writing and art and describing the terrifying, sometimes transcendent profundity of being dependent on the love and patience of others." - The New York Times
This summer's season will have six shows, down from 11 pre-pandemic and eight in 2022. AD Nataki Garrett: "Our numbers have come in between 46 and 50 percent of people returning, which is the same return rate as most theatres across the country." - American Theatre
"Without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks and others unconcerned with achieving a complex, empirically informed understanding of the past." After all, this is the plan from the ahistorical side, no? - The New York Times
The conductor survived brain cancer surgery and has been conducting at a furious clip - but he's also been "trying to dig out his piles of unfinished pieces he has composed over the decades and see what he can do with them." - Los Angeles Times
The prize, named for the influential German Dadaist, was awarded - but at the request of artist winner Hito Steyerl, and agreement of writing winner Olivia Wenzel, "the 2023 award will be replaced by an open discussion about historical and current antisemitism and racism." - Hyperallergic
No, not even Colleen Hoover's popularity can win this one. "The coloring book, which was set to be published by Atria, was, according to the publisher, 'Vividly drawn and charmingly relaxing.'" - LitHub
The long-heralded "Lord of the Dance" (who retired in 2016) once had his feet insured for $30 million, at the height of the traditional Irish dance craze of the late 1990s. - Washington Post
At Orange County, the wait is more than 55 weeks (or was when the article was written, as "more than 700 people are on hold for its 100 or so copies." (The Los Angeles Public Library waitlist has more than 5,500 people on it.) - Los Angeles Times
The game is rigged. It is rigged like capitalism is rigged. There is no puppet master, no conspiracy, only a field where advantages, to begin with, are distributed unequally. You can beat the long odds, but you have long odds to beat. - LA Review of Books
It’s very hard to explain to musicians who don’t know ballet, but “One” is everything to a dancer — even though it may have nothing to do with the “One” in the score. - The New York Times
