A Musical About COVID, Titled ‘Breathe’
"Before we get to the logistics of writing, staging and filming a musical" — one with five songwriting teams, four directors plus a supervisor,...
Want Certainty? (It Might Not Be Good For You)
Philosophers have long warned that this desire for certainty can lead us astray. To think and learn about the world, we must be willing...
Berlin Film Festival Will Get A Live Version This Year After All — Outdoors
"The Berlin Film Festival, which took place online earlier this year, will show most of the movies that were part of the competition at...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Restores/Updates London’s Oldest Theatre, Built in 1663
In 2000, Lloyd Webber purchased the building, which he calls “objectively marvellous.” For the past two years, with Stephen Thurley’s help, he has been...
Conductor Christian Thielemann Is Losing His Job
The culture ministry of the German state of Saxony has announced that Thielemann's contract as music director of the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of Europe's...
‘Irreparable Damage’ — Scholars Protest Newark Museum’s Plan To Deaccession Artworks
"When the Newark Museum of Art announced a plan to sell 17 objects in March, it provided few details as to which artworks might...
Penn State University To Build Largest Art Museum Between Philadelphia And Pittsburgh
"The new 71,000-square-foot facility will be constructed alongside the botanic gardens at the university’s arboretum. It will increase the size of the museum...
Houston Symphony’s Music Director, Stranded In Europe By Pandemic, Misses Last Two Weeks Of...
Andres Orozco-Estrada hasn't been back to Texas to conduct his orchestra for a year, but he had been planning to return for concerts May...
More Trouble For Golden Globes As NBC Drops Broadcast
"NBC will not air the Golden Globes in 2022, the network said in a statement on Monday morning. This means the Hollywood Foreign Press...
Architect Helmut Jahn, 81, Killed In Bicycle-Car Collision
He's best-known for a series of major buildings in Chicago, including the Thompson Center, the Xerox Center (now 55 West Monroe), the addition to...
Performance Venues And Museums In UK May Reopen Next Monday (Though Many Will Not)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the lifting of a series of pandemic-related restrictions as of May 17; the new measures include the reopening...
Songwriters Are Getting Screwed By Streaming Too
Last month, Midia Research, which specializes in music and digital media, released a study, “Rebalancing the Song Economy,” that was commissioned by Abba's Bjorn...
UK Government Slashes Funding For “Creative Subjects” In Universities
The government has said subjects like music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media studies and archaeology are "not among its strategic...
Muti: COVID Year Was An Experiment In Global Culture
Riccardo Muti called the experience of the past year “an unnatural global experiment” that had “stunned” the world. “If we truly took into account...
The Compromises Of Live-Streaming
Livestreaming adds an additional layer of technical complexity and cost but doesn’t necessarily improve the audience’s experience of the play itself. Pre-recording allows the...
Inside The Museum Of Disgusting Food
As with the Museum of Sex, in New York City, and the Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, the Disgusting Food Museum is...
The Late Eli Broad: My Talk with the Under-Appreciated Overachiever Who Energized LA’s Cultural...
“Everything I’ve done in my life,” he told me at the beginning of our wide-ranging conversation in his office, “has really been to challenge...
Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration
The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and...
The Science Behind Your Ums… and Ahs…
Indeed, these verbal hesitations have been viewed as undesirable since the days of ancient Greece and, more recently, the American linguist Noam Chomsky characterised...
The Culture Of Citations That Props Up Writing
"Like many systems that appear meticulous, the writing of citations is a subjective art. Never more so than in fiction, where citation is an entirely...
A Wild Spoof Sends Up The Absurdity Of Academic Science Publishing
"Take a bunch of clever, ambitious people and tell them to get as many papers published as possible while still technically passing muster through...
The Improbable Survival Of Seattle’s Annex Theatre
“Our motto is ‘big, cheap theater.’ ” “I’d rather make a glorious failure than an apologetic win.” “We’re the cockroach of the arts —...
What’s Behind Attacks On Critical Race Theory?
"The exact targets of CRT’s critics vary wildly, but it is obvious that most critics simply do not know what they are talking about....
Spotify’s Imposter Problem
That new album by your fave, the one you haven't heard hyped on social media or in music magazines? It's probably by a deliberate...
La Scala Is Opening Again
With a 500-person limit, a record high in private funding, new digital streaming infrastructure, and a mandate to be more ecologically conscious, the Milan...
