How Three New York City Ballet Dancers Prepared Themselves For An Uncertain Return To...
Gia Kourlas: "To get a better understanding of what this strange time has been like, I checked in with … a member of the...
Are Audiobooks Superior To Paper?
Audiobooks aren’t cheating. They aren’t a just-add-water shortcut to cheap intellectualism. For so many titles in this heyday of audio entertainment, it’s not crazy...
60-Hour Workweeks Are Regular In Film And TV All Over The World: Survey
"A global survey of working conditions has found long working hours are now the norm across the film and television industries worldwide, with 50-...
A Wave Of Unionizing At US Museums, With Baltimore The Most Recent
"Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art have announced plans to form a union, making the employees the latest in a nationwide push for...
Protesters Picket Opening Night At Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre
"The protest is a revival of efforts this summer …(against) what they describe as a toxic culture. … Former employees passed out fliers decrying...
Houston Symphony And Musicians Sign Longest Contract In Their History
"The contract went into effect Oct. 1 and runs through Oct. 3, 2026. The deal includes matters of health care, restoration of the musicians'...
Plagued By Internal Turmoil, American Shakespeare Center Cancels Fall Season
"(With) the Staunton, Va.-based troupe, known for its Elizabethan-style, no-frills approach to the classics, … convulsed by defections and division, it has abruptly canceled...
Nobel Prize For Literature 2021 Goes To Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
The author of ten novels, born and raised on Zanzibar and resettled in England as a refugee in the 1960s, was cited for "his...
Streaming Has Killed Music Genres. That’s A Real Loss
Musical genres have long had a peculiar imaginative power and participatory quality. They aren’t just labels imposed by an industry; they’re shaped by passions...
European Movie Box Office Down 70 Percent In 2020
European movie theaters suffered a 70.4% year-on-year drop to €2.6 billion ($3 billion) in box office revenue in 2020. In terms of admissions, there...
Art Pranks (With A Message) On The Rise?
Most of these prankster examples either take a jab at the art market. This intersection seems to have escalated in the last five years,...
First Time: UK Audiences For Streaming Beat Traditional TV
Out of almost a thousand 18-70 year olds who watch at least 5 hours of television per week, more are watching via streaming platforms than traditional...
Today’s “Natural” Acoustics Are Based On Theatre Experiments in 18th Century Paris
When Hollywood technicians debated how to make movies sound natural, they were unwittingly following a trail blazed by 18th-century architects, who spent decades working...
NYT Jazz And Classical Critics Go Back And Forth Over Met Opera’s “Fire Shut...
Though this opera isn't Terence Blanchard's first work to qualify as contemporary classical, he's best known as a jazz drummer and film score composer....
Nigel Kennedy: Liberace Of The Violin Or Latter-Day Paganini? Or…
"Paganini may be a better comparison: a restless figure of astonishing ability, despised by (some) as a circus performer and accused by others of...
San Jose Theatre Posts All-White Cast, Apologizes, Then Cancels
In attempting to defend itself, San Jose Playhousemade more perceived mistakes, including posting, then deleting, a note that was meant to be private; as...
Director Of New Version Of “Scenes From A Marriage” Explains Why He Flipped The...
"One of the problems that I had when I started working is that I couldn't live with Johan. … And whenever I tried to...
Gotta Love How This Year’s Documenta Artists Were Announced
In Germany on Friday, October 1, you might have picked up a copy of Asphalt—a publication that is sold to benefit poor and people struggling...
Improv Comedy As The Vanguard Of Socialism?
"More than a year and a half into the pandemic, we've come to expect the unexpected. Perhaps the socialist revolution can start in an...
What’s Up With The Movie Museum’s Giant Orb? (Death Star?)
A big glass-and-steel ball is not vanishing into the mist. It sits there and it’s shiny and hard and you have to pay to...
Biden Makes Historic Picks For New Heads Of NEA And NEH
Both selections are historic: Lowe will be the first Native American nominated to lead the federal humanities agency and Jackson will be the first...
After COVID: NYC Artists Testify About The State Of Things
“The illusion of reopening is that we’re back where we were in February of 2020. The reality is that in the meantime, there’s been...
Get M.A.D.D. — This Chicago Company Is Transforming Tap Dance
"Short for 'Making a Difference Dancing Rhythms,' the tap dance company marks its 20th official season this year. … Today, M.A.D.D. Rhythms remains deeply...
How The Booker Prize Became Such A Big Deal
Charlotte Higgins: "It was by such steps" as well-timed leaks and carefully fanned disagreements "that the Booker became not just a book prize, but...
Veteran New York Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Looted Objects
"Nancy Wiener, 66, whose mother had also been a well-known expert in the field, acknowledged Thursday that she had taken possession of items that...
