“Starlight Express” Has Now Been Running Continuously For 35 Years
Many New Yorkers—including this one—forget that on the West End the show ran for 17 years. Estimations of the show’s total earnings ring up...
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Soldiers On The “Cultural Front” Of The Russia-Ukraine War
Shortly after the Russian invasion began, "the orchestra filed a request with the Ministry of Culture to go abroad. Military targets were under attack,...
Taylor Swift V. The Comma Police
Plenty of people, upon hearing the biggest music announcement of the year, started thinking about diacritical marks and then talking about them on social...
Considering, And Reconsidering, The Prevailing Ethics In The Dance World
"The strong tendency in Western dance …, especially since the dawn of the twentieth century, … is to present honorable-sounding statements as rationalizations (often...
Attention In Case Of Murdered Gallerist Brent Sikkema Turns To His Ex-Husband
Alejandro Triana Prevez, 30, has confessed to stabbing Sikkema to death in his Rio apartment, but Prevez's attorney has called the murder a "crime...
Meet The Woman Who Keeps Broadway Singing
"Joan Lader has never advertised, never solicited clients. But for two generations of Broadway stars, as well as dozens of opera singers and pop...
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Director Of London’s Young Vic Theatre, Announces Departure
"Kwei-Armah, who started out as an actor and has been greatly acclaimed as a playwright and director, ran Baltimore’s Center Stage theatre from 2011...
ABT’s Dancers Vote To Authorize A Strike
American Ballet Theatre's dancers and stage managers, members of AGMA, have been working without a contract since September as negotiations drag on. The vote...
A New Fund Will Give $100,000 Unrestricted Grants To Artists
"Trellis Art Fund, a new private family foundation dedicated to funding artists’ practices, … will provide 12 recipients with $100,000 spread across two years....
Lincoln Center President Henry Timms To Step Down
"Timms, who guided Lincoln Center through the turmoil of the pandemic and helped complete the $550 million renovation of David Geffen Hall, will step...
Caution About AI In The Entertainment Industry
The U.S. studios are aware of the dangers behind “making a wholesale shift to AI,” according to the CEO of a leading artificial intelligence dubbing outfit that says...
Why We Still Need Paper Books
Research suggests that comprehension is six to eight times better with physical books than e-readers. - Psychology Today
What A Plan To Save Churches Says About Their Place In UK Culture
Many churches are at risk of closure due to structural problems far beyond the capacity of local congregations to fix. - The Conversation
These Days Artists Have To Be Obsessed With Their Brand
The internet has made it so that no matter who you are or what you do — from nine-to-five middle managers to astronauts to...
Fox, ESPN, Warner Launch New All-Sports Service
The platform will include games from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, NASCAR and college sports, including the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament, as...
How NYT Classical Music Critic Zach Woolfe Approaches His Job
“I think what people are interested in is passion,” Mr. Woolfe said. “Even if you didn’t understand every word, my goal is for you...
“Like The Beatles For Children”: This Author’s “Magic” Is Real
"I called a friend with kids and said, 'Have you heard of an author named Raina Telgemeier?' 'Of course,' she said, sounding bemused, as...
The Problems Children Can Solve But AI Can’t
Trained on human-generated data, large language models are very adept at noticing patterns in that data. But learning from existing written material – even...
Argentina’s New Government Takes Over Public Media Companies
"The takeover of state-owned public media companies Educ.Ar, Télam, Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA), and Contenidos Públicos for one year ... was made official...
The Sci Fi Writer Who’s Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Future
Perhaps no writer has been more clairvoyant about our current technological age than Neal Stephenson. His novels coined the term metaverse, laid the conceptual groundwork...
Toronto’s Luminato Festival Appoints A New Artistic Director
"Olivia Ansell, current director of the Sydney Festival, is slated to join the Toronto-based cultural organization in 2025 to leads its artistic programming. She...
A Very Low Bar For Lyric Poetry
The barrier to attempting lyric poetry is so low it’s basically asphalt. Platforms for the stuff are plentiful, and rotten poems, furred with hyperlinks,...
Stolen Chagall Is Recovered
The 1971 lithograph titled Eve was stolen from a Manhattan gallery last September. Now the NYPD says that two of the three suspects were...
The High-End Art Market Sagged Last Year. But Lower Down? Robust Growth
ArtTactic’s report states that the lower end of the market remained “very active, with an 18% increase in the number of artworks sold below...
Could Contemporary Dance In The US Be Ready To Start Unionizing?
About two dozen ballet companies are unionized, but only three contemporary dance companies are: Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, and Ballet Hispánico. There are certainly...
