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UK Theatres Gasping To Restructure After Devasting Year

The Royal Court says it' seeking to "find new business models to sustain the theatre", while Hampstead has said 2022/23 turned out to be "one of the most challenging" in its history. The Young Vic has warned that "cost inflation and soaring energy bills" contributed to a deficit that went "way beyond budget. - The Stage

Report: Half As Many Scripted TV Shows Are Being Made As Were In 2019

The "report, published Friday and looking at scripted TV seasons being ordered in the U.S., noted that the volume of U.S. series has nearly halved since 2019. The number of series titles fell to 481 last year, down sharply from the 633 releases in 2022 and 2021." - The Hollywood Reporter

How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts

The connections between mathematics and music have been celebrated since at least as far back as the Pythagoreans. However, though there has been writing and academic research about specific books, authors or genres, I hadn’t seen a book for a general audience about the broader connections between mathematics and literature. - Quanta

The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions

As a matter of official policy, reactions are supposed to relieve you of the burden of writing out a full response. But all of those relieved burdens, taken together, add up to a new one: the duty to react to everything, one way or another. - The Atlantic

Want Your Dancers To Be More Creative? Help Them Also To Be Creative Outside Of Dance

Kerry Nicholls has worked as a choreographer, teacher and consultant, as well as associate artistic director to Rojo at English National Ballet. Rather than help rehearse dancers and make repertory choices, she helps dancers explore their talents and interests beyond daily classes and rehearsals. - San Francisco Chronicle

This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re On The Taylor Swift Beat Full-Time

Bryan West, who was hired by Gannett as its Taylor Swift reporter, should beware. Sam Kriss spent four months in 2014-15 covering Swift for the now-defunct London music zine Kerfuffle; this bonkers essay covers what he can remember (nothing) and its effect on his mental health (profound). - Numb at the Lodge

Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director

Trisha Kirk has been a member of the Guthrie team since 1985 and has held various positions, including season ticket manager, box office manager, and marketing manager, and, later, director of marketing. - American Theatre

How Much Do You Know About Frida Kahlo’s Life?

"In a drabber parallel universe, Frida Kahlo might have been a doctor. As a high schooler she was on a pre-med track, studying biology, anatomy, and zoology at one of Mexico City’s best schools. … But then a trolley car collided with the bus she was taking home." - ARTnews

An AI-Created Performance Of George Carlin Demonstrates What’s Wrong With AI

The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever sat through. - Los Angeles Times

Why The Dreams Of Some Young Ballet Students Get Destroyed: Dishonesty

Matthew Paluch argues that there's one major factor in the dance instruction industry that few on either the teacher or student side are willing to talk about openly. - Gramilano (Milan)

Appreciating Joan Acocella

On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless. Actually—a very Joan word—simplicity is hard work, and Joan worked hard. She wrote her drafts in longhand and sent page proofs by fax. - The New Yorker

This Choreographer And Teacher Developed A Specifically Caribbean Dance Technique

Dr. L’Antoinette Stines: "What I have done is brought together what came off the ships when they did — and sometimes we forget that it is not just Africa that came off the ship, India came off the ship, China came off the ship. So my technique is a synabridge." - Essence

Art Fairs Are Expensive And Less Effective For Galleries Selling. Still, The Galleries Can’t Give Them Up

Anecdotally, the increasing costs of fair stands and their associated shipping, travel and entertainment budgets were already taking quite a toll pre-pandemic, but inflation has made it more acute. - The Art Newspaper

Cutting A Shakespeare Play Down To 80 Minutes Is Entirely Legitimate, Even At The RSC, Argues The Guardian’s Theatre Critic

Arifa Akbar: "Some trimmed-down Shakespeares – such as Simon Godwin’s Romeo and Juliet – are as rich as the originals, and not every staging of Much Ado About Nothing has to have its protracted comic interludes with Dogberry and his gang." Especially if it means missing the last train home from Stratford-upon-Avon. - The Guardian

Brazil’s Museum Of Democracy Will Include Major Archive Of 2023 Bolsonarista Insurrection

"An initiative to create a comprehensive record of the 2023 insurrection (at) the Brazilian congress" by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had lost his re-election bid, "has been launched as part of the development of the Museum of Democracy in Brasília." - The Art Newspaper

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