What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
That's what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK's...
Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
It wasn't just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. "Carano had become...
Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
"Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons:...
Second City Has A Buyer
Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company's staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race...
San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
The company's first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini's Barber of Seville on an outdoor...
French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again
An administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen's number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and...
Actress Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ After Anti-Gay Posts Loses Lawsuit
A British employment tribunal unanimously rejected Seyi Omooba's claims of breach of contract and religious discrimination, finding that "there is no breach of contract...
San Francisco Opera To Return To The Stage With Drive-In Opera
“There is a certain visceral quality about being in the same location together and experiencing art. I’m giddy with anticipation at the thought of...
The Cultural Significance Of Magazines
“The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet—they’d foster communities of people, just like on social networks,” Steven Lomazow, a...
Finally: More Money, Resources For Black Theatre?
In the last seven months, there has been a groundswell of support for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits that are focused on specifically and directly...
Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science
Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the...
Claim: The COVID Shutdown Has Revolutionized And Democratized Theatre
"The result is a worldwide swarm of approaches that have profoundly opened up the possibilities of the form, most likely for good. The word...
Composer Gets No Play Until She Puts Her Music Out Under Male Pseudonym
A change of name it all started to click. After adopting the pseudonym Arthur Parker her pieces were getting the airplay she had struggled...
Everyone’s Pivoting – Here’s What’s Relevant To Classical Music
According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, there are ten different kinds of pivots. At least six out of them are relevant...
1,000-Year-Old Murals Identified In German Cathedral
"A series of frescoes showing the life and death of John the Baptist in the cathedral of the Bavarian city of Augsburg have been...
Reimagine Yourself
The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source...
Documentary: Could It Be Years Before Big Music Festivals Return?
"If, like me, you happened to watch the documentary mere hours after hearing that statement, the Glastonbury scene took on a whole different kind...
COVID Has Shown Us That Theatre Is Too Dependent On Its Buildings
Lyn Gardner: "At their best, are creative powerhouses, community hubs, a place of inspiration, succour and sanctuary. But often they come with self-perpetuating,...
How A Bad Joke Ended Up In Canada’s Top Court
Comedian Mike Ward made a bad joke about a teenager with a disability back in 2010. The victim sued and the case is now...
Jorge Morel, Classical Guitarist And Composer, Dead At 89
" added a vast repertoire to his instrument and performed to packed concerts around the world. … In between classical concerts, Mr. Morel paid...
To Understand The Problems With Big Tech Platforms We Need To Understand What’s At...
Harvesting data at scale makes us collectively vulnerable in ways that go beyond breaches of individual privacy. This is a new and nasty problem:...
‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
"The texts in The Seventy-Five Pages were written in 1908, around the time Proust began working on In Search of Lost Time, which...
Music Critic Peter G. Davis, 84
He was longtime critic for New York Magazine. Peter was best known as an authority on opera — his 1997 book The American Opera...
‘Drenching Richness’: Alex Ross Revisits The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky
Ross fell under the director's spell upon seeing Andrei Rublev in college. "The long pandemic months seemed a good time to burrow back into...
Black Dancers And Dance Companies Worry They Won’t Be Able To Survive Pandemic
Broadway dancer NaTonia Monét says that, even when theaters finally start up again, "you have your few Black shows that come along, but other...
