They've all been heroes over the past year, often stepping in at the last minute to keep the show going on after a cast member tests positive for COVID or is otherwise ill or unavailable. But the jobs are not the same. - Broadway Direct
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems, neither Gotheiner nor his dancers could allow themselves to consider any other outcome." - Forward
A study last November found that four out of five viewers aged between 18 and 25 said they use subtitles “all or part of the time” compared with only a quarter of those aged between 56 and 75. - The Guardian
Elena Bulgakova preserved her late husband's manuscript for 20 years, retyped it, got it published first in translation in Soviet-occupied Estonia, then, in Russian, abroad. An uncensored version of the novel finally appeared in the USSR in 1973 — and Soviet readers couldn't quite make sense of it. - JSTOR Daily
The theater was conceived by Louis XIV but only completed in time for the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's been in use for most of the time since (for eight years, it was France's capitol), and these days it's busier than ever before. - BBC Music Magazine
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for travel expenses for herself, a daughter, and a friend. She has now been fined by the city's Ethics Commission. - San Francisco Examiner
He could easily have been one of the cohort of mainstream New York stage actors who pay their bills with guest spots in TV series, but he was drawn to the experimental and socially conscious work being made in downtown Manhattan, co-founding two key theater companies. - The New York Times
Back in the 1920s, there was a group of cantors who combined traditional liturgical chanting with improvisation and operatic vocal technique, which they never formally studied. And there's a younger group of cantors today bringing that art back to life — and to the wider public. - NPR
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to take a tax write-down on the $90 million film," which would recoup more money than releasing the film would. - The Hollywood Reporter
In honor of Batgirl, Ernie Smith remembers a group of other films — seven of which are from since the turn of the millennium, and most of which featured some major talent — that were canned rather than released, sometimes for surprising reasons. - Tedium
"The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure. ... The Met's current two-pronged leadership structure, which is unusual for art museums, was put in place in 2017, after Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure as director and chief executive." - The New York Times
Following reports that the Burbank studio giant will no longer offer the movie on its streaming platform or in theaters, filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah issued a joint statement Wednesday expressing their disappointment. - Los Angeles Times
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in England, Wales and Scotland. In March 2020, when the figures were last published, the number was 1,418. - BBC
Canadians performing well against Americans isn’t a new concept in sports, but the recent onscreen successes raise the obvious question: Are Canadians just better at reality TV? - Toronto Star
