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The Creative Industries’ “Napster Moment”?

If copyright protections were to be stripped away, then so begins the unraveling of the entire value proposition that union members past and present have fought so hard to maintain in the film and television industry. - The Hollywood Reporter

500 Broadway Artists Versus Patti LuPone

More than 500 Broadway artists are calling for "accountability, justice, and respect" after theater legend Patti LuPone received widespread pushback over recent comments she made about fellow stage icons Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker profile. - Entertainment Weekly

Is AI Coming For Backstage Jobs?

Or, excuse us, we mean, is it bringing a “revolution” to theatre? - The Stage (UK)

The Effort In Indonesia To Install Beautiful Microlibraries Everywhere

“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in 2015 with 2,000 discarded ice cream buckets.” - The Guardian (UK)

The Newest Hint That There’s Strong Interest In Off-Broadway Shows

“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly need to put on a flashy Broadway show.” So? Commercial theatre returns to Off Broadway. - The New York Times

Reality TV, You May Not Be Surprised To Know, Distorts Our View Of Who Deserves Success

A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American Dream and exposure to shows like America’s Got Talent, American Idol, and Shark Tank.” - Salon

Los Angeles Opera Names Its New Music Director

"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times classical music critic Mark Swed called it 'a coup for the company.’” Now comes an even bigger coup for the opera. - Los Angeles Times

Renee Victor, Voice Of Abuelita In Coco, Has Died At 88

“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger than 50 know her from her role voicing Abuelita in the 2017 movie Coco.  - The New York Times

Playing A Regal, Demanding Musician Doesn’t Make One Regal Or Demanding

Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and yoga pants. She loves to put on her bunny slippers and watch the UFC.” - The New York Times

What’s Going To Happen When We Can Translate Animal Languages?

“Speaking whale would expand our sense of space and time into a planetary song. I imagine we’d think very differently about polluting the ocean soundscape so carelessly.” - The Guardian (UK)

How The National Poet For Wales Got From Public Housing To The Big Stage

Hanan Issa: “Growing up, she said she never saw writing as a viable career: ‘I'm working class, raised in a council house and to me, it wasn't considered an option.’” But in 2016, the Prime Minister said something so ignorant that boom. Poetry! - BBC

A New Book Aims To Help Drag Performers When They’re Under Attack

The - sadly necessary - new handbook “contains best practices for dealing with everything from online doxing to bomb attacks.” - NPR

The Man Who Brings Celebs To Broadway

Director Jamie Lloyd, who’s brought Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway, says, “It’s about creating an event rather than just a theater piece.” - Washington Post (Yahoo)

After Years Of Work, California Was Ready To Fund The Performing Arts

“The Equitable Payroll Fund is designed to support arts programs in dozens of small nonprofit organizations, from live theatre to orchestras, operas, chorus, and dance.” But Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget wipes all of it, 100 percent of it, away. - American Theatre

What Taylor Swift’s Latest Victory For Musicians And The Whole Industry

Swift knows why: "Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I’m reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen.” - The Guardian (UK)

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