"Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across the board — is struggling to stay afloat. Lutz and Carr, the company’s auditor, said it has 'substantial doubt about the organization’s ability to continue as a going concern.'" - Broadway Journal
"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. … (Their) impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war." - AP
"Dive-ins are a time-honoured tradition in (inland) Australia, where residents can’t easily access what much of the nation takes for granted on a hot summer day: proximity to the coast or an air-conditioned cinema." - The Guardian
“The longer the sequence of symbols, the more likely that writing is involved,” Schwartz said, distinguishing alphabetic writing from semasiography, which refers to “signs functioning as mnemonic devices to represent ideas but not language.” - Hyperallergic
Elon Musk. Jordan Peterson, Peter Thiel. All three have been repeatedly talking about and referring to — and misconstruing — The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Paradise Lost, and the like. - The Nation
Following an 18-month hiatus, Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre plans to reopen on January 30 with new leadership, a new business model, and a newly renovated lobby. The 36-year-old company, which won the 2011 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, will reduce its mainstage season from four to two productions. - Playbill
He has an explanation: “People feel trapped. If you go to an art gallery and there is a picture you don’t like, you can just move away, but if you are in a concert and sitting in the middle of a row, people are polite and won’t walk out.” - The Guardian
Nicola Benedetti, a Grammy-winning classical violinist who became the festival’s director in 2022, said in an interview with the Guardian she feared the creative arts that underpinned it were at risk of stagnating because of repeated funding cuts. - The Guardian
She considers the letter as game, as plot device, as plot vehicle (epistolary novels), historical source, moral statement, advice column fodder, greeting card, and medium for a decades-long personal/philosophical quarrel of her own. - Harper's
It concludes that there is simply not enough time until the universe expires for a defined number of hypothetical primates to produce a faithful reproduction of “Curious George,” let alone “King Lear.” - The New York Times
Fan communities coping with a celebrity loss do several things that help their members feel supported and connected to one another, which often also disrupts society’s typical reaction to grief. So, what can we learn from fans grieving celebrity deaths? - The Conversation
After the war, Nietzsche was practically radioactive. In the newfound German Democratic Republic (GDR), where he was officially declared a “pioneer of fascism,” his writings were forbidden, while in West Germany he was shrouded in silence and suspicion. - Commonweal
Certainly the story is operatic: two people with traumatic childhoods meet on a cruise ship, fall in love, develop a successful magic act, and become the biggest act in Las Vegas until one of them is killed by their favorite tiger. Luke Di Somma's opera premieres this week in Sydney. - The Guardian
The unexpectedness of some of Frank’s choices is just what makes the book entertaining. He tackles some 32 novels, in a series of case studies, starting the 20th century not with, say, Joseph Conrad or Henry James, but with HG.Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and André Gide’s The Immoralist. - New Statesman
