Television And Theatre Aren’t Oil And Water, But They Don’t Mix Well, Either
“Despite so much practice, television still manages to get a few things wrong, specifically the process, the product and the people. (It occasionally manages...
Reed Hastings Is Leaving Netflix, But Is It Because They Didn’t Get Warner Bros.,...
Bizarrely, Netflix would up in a much stronger place: “The company did not say how it plans to spend the $2.8-billion US termination fee...
It Takes Many Artisans To Create A Lady Gaga-Level, But Fake, Pop Star
The Mother Mary gang has been finding out over the past couple of years. - Variety
How Do You Secure A Museum From Heists Without Closing It Off Entirely?
“Transparency, porousness — all the buzzwords of architecture today are antithetical to security. It’s a paradox implicit to museum design today.” - The New...
We Are Weirdly Quick To Believe That Actors Simply Improvise In Movies
“Audiences clearly crave these stories – but why? Isn’t a movie more impressive if it’s so well rehearsed that it seems real? Isn’t it...
Is Pop Star Rosalia Leading A Surge In Affection For Opera As An Art...
Yes, and then there’s this: “Pinterest said ‘opera aesthetics' - a trend which it said encapsulated ‘dramatic, opulent and theatrical styles’ - was one of its...
Children’s Author Jon Klassen Is The First Canadian To Win This Huge Children’s Literature...
“The Winnipeg-born children's book author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which is worth nearly $750,00”...
How A Few Simple TikToks Or A Viral Insta Reel Can Lead To A...
“A century ago, the democratization of poetry was only a dream. Today, everyone can be a poet thanks to social media.” - Los Angeles...
Anna Weber shares the importance of collaborative partnerships
Anna Weber, General Manager for Artistic and Operations at Carnegie Hall, shares the depth of their festival programming and focus on collaborative partnerships.
The OnlyFans Approach To Spreading Climate Change Awareness
“Headline Newds, a new series of web videos, ... is made up of bite-size (segments) in which the climate emergency is broken down and...
English National Opera Gets A New Chief Exec
At Rambert, Helen Shute has led partnerships with The Royal Ballet and Manchester International Festival expanding Rambert’s international reach and developing new initiatives, including...
What Counts As Evolving And What As Watering Down? Worries About The Future Of...
“Experts say the issue is awareness, not admiration. Performances are sometimes staged in unsuitable settings or paired with incorrect costumes — choices that, however...
Has The Anecdotal Lede Outlived Its Journalistic Utility?
For many years, this tactic served us well, and it’s deeply embedded in the toolkits of generations of writers and editors. But I wonder...
Study: The Antidote To Mindless Phone Rot — A Surprising Finding
The results after doing so were eye-opening even to them: among a totally random population, levels of creativity for the people watching the experimental...
Yale Report: Universities Themselves Are To Blame For Lowered Trust Of Higher Ed
High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening...
America’s Only Accredited Circus School Is Closing
Founded in 2017 in Philadelphia, the Circadium School of Contemporary Circus became the first and only accredited and licensed circus school in the U.S....
Inside The Kennedy Center Dumpster Fire (OMG!)
Richard Grenell, told me to “get rid of everything” in the permanent collection because we needed all new art for the reopening. Although I...
AI’s Are Beginning To Get Emotional Intelligence
Emotions are the AI industry’s new fixation. Not only are growing numbers of start-ups such as Amotions AI promising tools that interpret feelings; the...
When AI Can Write Like Me
That a machine might use my writing not only to learn about my subject matter, but also to analyze and ultimately mimic my authorial...
New Hope For The Arts In Hungary After The Fall Of Viktor Orbán?
"A key question is what will happen to ... the 'ideologically burdened' Hungarian Academy of Arts, an institution given significant funding powers by (Orbán's...
The Only Path Forward For Struggling Theatres
Theatres facing financial difficulty can only prosper by “programming their way out of it”, according to the Young Vic artistic director, Nadia Fall, who...
What Happens Next In The LiveNation/Ticketmaster Case
The jury’s clean sweep, finding monopolization on every claim, gives the states significantly more leverage in the remedy phase than a mixed verdict would...
Trump’s Arts Commission Approves Preliminary Design Of Arch
The Commission of Fine Arts, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project, but no...
Where In London Was Shakespeare’s House? Centuries-Old Mystery Finally Solved
“A newly discovered 17th-century map sheds new light on the Bard’s London life, pinpointing for the first time the exact location of the only...
Sundance Gets Busy Setting Up At New HQ In Boulder
"With just nine months remaining before the first Boulder, Colorado, edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the organizers of the world’s most important showcase...
