Audience numbers are down at American Ballet Theater. So: Like Water for Chocolate. "For people who might not be familiar with the great abstract works of Balanchine or the classics, ... they might see a poster and think, ‘Well maybe I’ll go and see that.’" - The New York Times
Tori Sampson is "one of the many, many writers who love the theater but who make a lot of their living in TV." She was in rehearsals for her Off-Broadway show This Land Was Made when the WGA strike began. - Variety
Clark was "a writer of popular suspense novels who infused the corpses-and-clues genre with doses of dark humor, while also teaming up with her mother, famed mystery author Mary Higgins Clark." - Washington Post
Post COVID-19 shutdowns, theatres everywhere are "fighting to keep doors open despite dwindling ticket sales, increased production costs and hesitant, recession-wary donors. The result: drastic cuts to programming, layoffs, candid pleas to subscribers." And this disaster in L.A. - Los Angeles Times
He's stepping down at the Chicago Symphony, but only sort of - because who is stepping up? "Since his successor has not yet been named, he will be continuing as a kind of shadow music director next season, and possibly longer." - The New York Times
"It was the greatest privilege of my career. Glenda was overly fearless as a performer, and overly fearless as a woman. To come out and restart a career in your 80s, it was phenomenal. I don’t know if anyone else has ever had the passion and bravery."- The Guardian (UK)
His leak of the papers "led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration — serving as the catalyst for a series of White House-directed burglaries and 'dirty tricks' that snowballed into the Watergate scandal." - Washington Post
"LGBT and black streamers say audiences who feel marginalised in other communities feel safest and happiest when they're playing horror games. And they believe the people who watch them online come for a sense of belonging they don't get anywhere else." - BBC
"The bargaining unit includes curators, conservators, security guards, retail workers, marketers and members of various other departments," and the 60-5 vote comes after two years of bureaucratic and inter-institutional speed bumps. - The Baltimore Banner
But what is Tanztheater Wuppertal without Bausch? Answers may come as the group celebrates its 50th anniversary. In addition, there's now "a shortlist of candidates for design competition to build the Pina Bausch Center, a major new cultural building for the city." - The New York Times
Some AI is OK, but not all AI. "'A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any category,' they said, under new 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) Protocols' released Friday." - Seattle Times (AP)
The union is not enamored of the offer from the museum's negotiators. "It locks us into a long contract with much lower increases in the subsequent years. It leaves out part-time museum educators that the museum relies upon to carry out all of their community and school programs." - Artnet
Spanish-speaking academics, and some international students, are not into it. An admininstrator: "We’re convinced that we can express ourselves in Catalan and become internationally renowned for our universities. We embrace the world — in Catalan." - The World
"That’s where it got really surreal, when they decided it was sexually explicit, because anybody who could get their jollies off of Maus is probably in need of far greater help than anything the school could offer." - Pen America
"Standing in the square waiting for this moment, spontaneous kazooing broke out. We kazooed to Rick Astley (Cursed). We kazooed to Pachelbel’s Canon (as a longsuffering wedding cellist, this healed something deep inside me). We kazooed to Billie Eilish." - The Guardian (UK)
