What Eventbrite User Data Say About Audience Behavior Trends
Eight in 10 event-goers are planning to attend either the same number of events, or more, compared to last year.
Gen Zs, in particular, are...
Contemplating The Mortality Of All Things
Only recently has the human collective begun accepting the fact it is itself mortal. We now appreciate that events unfolded for aeons before us...
Midcentury Modern: There’s A Group Of Audience-Friendly American Opera The Met Should Be Producing
Joshua Barone makes the case for such works as Samuel Barber's Vanessa, Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes’s Street Scene, Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, Carlisle Floyd’s...
Parents Jailed For Starving 17-Year-Old Child For Ballet Lessons
She weighed just 60 pounds (27.3 kilograms) – about the same size as a 9-year-old. Last month her parents, an Australian couple in their...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Indigenous Advisors Quit En Masse
The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada's oldest ballet company "a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization," the ballet's website...
After Six Weeks In London’s West End, “The Years” Is Still Seeing Audience Members...
"While fainting theatergoers are nothing new — several passed out over the onstage torture in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed at the National Theater almost a...
Abortion Play “The Years” May Be An Example Of Trigger Warnings Making Things Worse
The Anne Ernaux adaptation currently running in London's West End has been making headlines for the fact that audience members keep fainting during a...
One Of Britain’s Top Indie Publishers Expands Into U.S.
"Faber, the storied U.K. independent publisher, has launched a new division, Faber US, in the United States. The move comes a decade after Faber...
Conductor Edward Gardner Apologizes For Describing Naples Opera Chorus As “Mafia Families”
"The principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra was threatened with a defamation action for his comments about chorus members at the Teatro San...
Why Does It Matter That Trump Fired The Kennedy Center’s Board And Made Himself...
An explainer covering why the Federal government is involved with the Kennedy Center in the first place, how its board differs from other nonprofit...
La Scala Ballet Has A New Director. It’s His Third Time In The Job.
Frédéric Olivieri will begin his latest term as Director of La Scala’s ballet company on March 1. He first led the company 2002-2007, after...
Sudan’s Heritage In Danger As Civil War Rages On
"The war itself has been under-reported as other conflicts have taken the global centre stage; even less attention has been paid to its devastating...
The Meaning Of Red
Red is the color we wear when we want to be noticed, the one that appears in the most national flags, the one that...
Why Theatre Is Devolving Into Uselessness
Does anyone actually read theatre reviews? National newspapers continue to slim down arts sections. Theatre coverage, with confined geography, is lucky to survive with...
How To Save Movie Theatres: Be A Non-Profit?
Certainly not all nonprofit theaters are doing well, but the model has worked, at least so far, in places like the Berkshires, where a...
Finding That Line Between Copyright Protection And AI: A First Copyright Is Granted
Invoke has been trying to find that thin line to offer a product that would help artists create works that may be eligible for...
Boston Conducting Legend Benjamin Zander, Still Going Strong At 85
Zander has been educating musicians and audiences about classical music for five decades. During his master class, Zander interacts with both the audience and...
The Small Publisher Making Its Mark With Translations No One Was Paying Attention To
Since its founding a decade ago, Tilted Axis has gained a reputation for bringing out a wide range of groundbreaking, genre-defying literature in translation....
Are Things Really Better In The Music Business?
There’s never been a better time in history to be an intermediary, a middleman, a hanger-on, an aggregator, a shyster. For a guitarist or...
Lebrecht Wonders: Is It Okay To Review A Performance By A Musician Accused Of...
I cannot recall a recording of Le Rossignol that gave more tingle to my ears. So am I allowed to recommend it here without...
How Professional Licensing Has Warped American Culture
The institution of professional licensing has only grown in its reach and outlandishness. More and more new professions are becoming licensed, such as art therapists...
The Pollock And Picasso That Usually Live In A Vault In Tehran Came Out...
“The Eye to Eye exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in October 2024, was extended twice due to overwhelming public...
How The Great French Actor Aurore Clement Survived A Violent Crowd At A Movie...
Only the quick action of a journalist with a trench coat, she says, saved her the day that Meetings with Anna premiered in Paris....
Why The Sudden Removal Of The T From The Stonewall Inn’s National Monument Website...
"All autocracies attempt to control the past in order to control the future. Their methods are ham-fisted, because they see history as a purely...
Bridget Jones 4 Breaks Box Office Records In Britain, Where It’s Not Streaming
Who knew the fourth entry in what seemed a played-out story would prove both so well reviewed and so well attended? The film “accounted...
