Nearly 60% of Americans say they have had to cut back on spending on live entertainment this year because of rising costs, according to a Wall Street Journal/Credit Karma survey of about 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted at the start of September. - Wall Street Journal
“This is a plan of managed decline, rather than an attempt to rebuild the company and maintain the world-class artistic output for which ENO is rightly famed." - The Guardian
“Steve Rubin did more for music criticism than anybody — first, in the searching articles he wrote as a young man; later, as a brilliant editor and meticulous judge of talent; and then as the founder and guiding force behind the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism." - San Francisco Classical Voice
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely new creative team — and with Nobel Prize-winning girls' education advocate Malala Yousafzai and former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among the co-producers. - TheaterMania
There is a "very real fear that the algorithm will ‘forget’ artists if they do not keep up a steady flow of social posts and releases, and you have the foundation stones for music’s just-in-time economy." - Music Industry Blog
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets, and plenty of new office space that will save the company €350,000 a year in rent to other landlords. - Gramilano (Milan)
That number represents a six-point drop from the most recent survey in 2017, amplifying alarm bells that the arts community is struggling to regain its pre-lockdown audience. - Washington Post
The Staatsballett Berlin, an amalgamation of three pre-1989 companies, went through three artistic directorships in less than a decade while also dealing with recalcitrant dancers, strikes over pay, and a racism scandal. Good thing that new director Christian Spuck is known for his "preternatural" calm and courtesy. - The New York Times
"We can’t hide from uncomfortable questions about to what extent we should be connecting capacity and generosity with power and influence in a world in which scrutiny over equity has never been more intense." - Symphony
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is currently willing to pay — $20 million." - Variety
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic separated out supposedly controversial titles (such as a bio of Ketanji Brown Jackson) into an opt-in-only package, and former fans are calling the company cowardly. - Slate
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard architecture dean Sarah Whiting, "Joshua is incredibly invested in how something gets pulled off ... the underbelly and the technical side." - The New York Times
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of the artefacts. The collection is now housed in a fireproof climate-controlled studio in the building with a new reading room, and is open ... by appointment." - BBC
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of Palestinians, including many women and children, dead and has become a lightning rod for anger across the region." - The Hollywood Reporter
