After 30 Years, Richmond Ballet Returns To The Museum
The company danced at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s but hasn't been back since. But starting next month, following a...
Does Opera On A Screen Really Work?
Seeing the seams is part of live performance’s charm—it asks the audience to actively participate in the suspension of reality, as opposed to having...
How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts
The movie industry has gotten much more careful in the past few decades about authenticity (Emilia Pérez notwithstanding). Yet screenwriters won't write out foreign-language...
The Dirty Secret Behind College Tuitions
“We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.” This pricing strategy took hold in the...
Indian Police Confiscate Hundreds Of Titles From Bookstores In Kashmir
"Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region....
Study: How Australians Read
This report represents the first time the Australian book industry has been granted a detailed level of insight into recreational readers and also offers...
Edmonton Symphony Names Jean-Marie Zeitouni As Music Director
“He made his ESO debut in 2006 and has conducted more than 35 performances with the orchestra and Edmonton Opera since then.” - CTV
You Thought Movie Theatres Were In Trouble? Cinemark Chain Posts Record Fourth Quarter Revenue
Exhibition giant Cinemark reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $814 million, up 27 percent year-over-year and 3 percent above the pre-COVID pandemic fourth quarter of 2019. -...
How Should Artists Respond In The Trump Era
With each day bringing new troubles and concerns, how should we proceed? Ideally, with boldness, though that quality seems to be in short supply,...
Souleymane Cissé, Pioneering African Filmmaker, Has Died At 84
Over a 50-year career, the Malian writer-director did much to establish sub-Saharan African film as an internationally recognized industry in terms of art as...
UK Government To Inject New Money Into The Arts
The Culture Secretary is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in...
The Kennedy Center Debacle As A Mamet Drama
It plays like a David Mamet drama, complete with an inciting incident, characters bringing years of baggage to every scene and a surprising climax....
Cooperation Versus Competition – A Biological, Philosophical Perspective
The evolution of cooperation has been of interest to biologists, philosophers and anthropologists for centuries. If natural selection favours self-interest, why would we cooperate...
For These Successful Playwrights, It Was A Hard Journey Just To Reach Midcareer Status
"They constitute an unusual cohort, bucking the bad news of the American theater by having made it past emerging to emerged. Granted, pretty much...
Italian Police Shut Down Major Art-Forgery Workshop In Rome
Police seized 71 paintings, including fake Rembrandts, Picassos, Warhols, and Banksys, some completed and others half-finished, along with a plethora of painting materials, forged...
In Addition To Prison Sentence, Ozy Founder Carlos Watson Gets Ordered To Pay $96...
"(A Federal judge) ordered Watson and his company to pay over $36 million in restitution and nearly $60 million in forfeiture … for his...
So Trump Replaced The Kennedy Center’s Board. Now Will He Lead Its Fundraising?
The Center gets only 16% of its budget from Federal money, and that's for maintenance, repairs and operation of the building, which the government...
Despite Facing Fearsome Deficits, Both San Francisco And California State Governments Maintain Arts Spending
The state’s Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which helps organizations meet new pay and benefit requirements, launches this year with a $12.5 million budget....
Metropolitan Opera To Change Some Scheduling And Casting Practices
Next season the company will experiment with scheduling consecutive performances of the same opera with different casts, this to save money by not moving...
Drunk Does “Irreversible Damage” To Inca Landmark In Peru
Not long after midnight in Cusco, once the Incas' imperial capital, a man "apparently intoxicated and out of his mind" used a metal object...
Inside London’s New Dance Hot Spot, Sadler’s Wells East
"'You are welcome,' beams a neon sign above the biscuity brick entrance. Theatres, like vampires, gravitate to dark spaces, but inside the impression is...
Trump And The Corruption Of What Words Mean
Trump has already hit language very strongly, and not just because of his own idiosyncratic manner of speech. As the Times has noted, his administration has...
Making Theatre For Liberation — And For After Liberation: South African Actor-Playwright John Kani
During apartheid, in addition to being Athol Fugard's leading actor, he co-wrote and co-starred in the seminal plays Sizwe Bandi Is Dead and The...
Minnesota Theatre Says It Will Decline NEA Funding, Double Down On DEI
A Minneapolis theater organization says it will decline federal funding in order to preserve its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. - Bring Me the News
Artists Sign Letter Protesting Changes In NEA Criteria
Hundreds of artists signed a letter sent to the National Endowment for the Arts asking it to reverse policy changes made as a result...
