Broadway Stage Directors And Choreographers Have A New Union Contract And Achieve A Long-Term...
"The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has reached an agreement with the Broadway League on a new four-year contract that covers associate directors and...
What U.S. Ballet Companies Are Paying Their Executive And Artistic Directors
For the 50 largest companies, the average salary for both positions is over $200,000, and the gender gap in pay averages 17% for artistic...
Last Remaining Suspect In 2005 Theft Of Warhol And Pollock Works Turns Himself In
After hiding from authorities for seven months, Nicholas Dombek appeared at a Scranton, Pa. courthouse. He's one of nine alleged members of a ring...
Artist Alexis Smith, Who Pioneered Fusion Of Image And Text, Has Died At 74
"Her imaginative collages and assemblages have drawn on, not just borrowed — and sometimes edited — quotations by everyone from Milton to Kerouac and...
The Retiring CEO Who Has Transformed The Detroit Opera
Under Wayne Brown, the company "has placed itself at the center of operatic conversation, … broken fund-raising records, (and) drawn first-time ticket buyers by...
Worldwide Cinema Office Revenue Is Up By Almost A Third From The Previous Year
The analytics firm Gower Street estimates that global sales of movie tickets in 2023 add up to $33.9 billion, an increase of 31% from...
So, What Other Goodies Have Come Into Public Domain As Of 2024?
In the US, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc. In the EU, Canada,...
Music Trends From The 2023 UK Top Music Charts
For 31 out of 52 weeks, female acts topped the chart either as solo artists or in collaboration with other musicians. Miley Cyrus had...
Broadway’s Huge Holiday Week
Winner of the week? Disney’s The Lion King, which grossed a massive $4,316,629, not only setting a house record at the Minskoff but a Broadway record...
Auction Houses Report 2023 Sales Decline
Christie’s reported a 20 percent decline in its total sales, plummeting from $8.4 billion in 2022 to $6.2 billion in 2023. Meanwhile, Sotheby’s projected...
AI Can Produce Human-like Art. It’s a Challenge For Humans To Do Better
If you believe that culture is an imaginative human endeavor, then there should be nothing to fear, except that — what do you know?...
That Time Andrew Scott Stopped Shakespeare’s Most Famous Monologue Cold
"When I was playing Hamlet, a guy took out his laptop – not his phone, his laptop – while I was in the middle...
Report: Hollywood Efforts At Diversity Are Mostly “Performative”
The center’s latest report, titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair, called the entertainment industry’s pledges to promote inclusion “performative acts” and “not real steps towards...
Iraq Starts A New TV Channel To Help Save An Ancient And Endangered Language
Syriac, a 2,000-year-old tongue closely related to the Aramaic spoken by Jesus of Nazareth, is today the language of Iraq's Orthodox Christians, a community...
When Buildings Lose Decoration, It Isn’t Pretty
What do we lose when we get rid of ornament? Quite a lot, it turns out. What to do with large blank walls remains...
Nashville Changed Its Arts Funding Model To Help Organizations That Had Been Neglected. Then...
Racism at work? Depends on what exactly one means by racism, and where — because the Metro Nashville Arts Commission reversed the new funding...
More And More Americans Are Canceling Streaming Subscriptions
Customer defections across premium streaming services rose to 6.3% in November, from 5.1% a year earlier. About one-quarter of U.S. subscribers to major streaming services—a group...
Meet The Founding Director Of San Antonio’s Only Professional Contemporary Dance Company
Just a year ago, Tanesha Payne created SumRset (adapted from her maiden name) to spread appreciation for contemporary dance in America's seventh-largest city, where...
Meet The Indispensable Harpsichord Maker
"I hope the 20th century ‘early music revival’ might be viewed as an important shift in outlook in the performance of music. Seeking to...
“Streaming Anxiety”: Why So Many People Are Still Buying DVDs, CDs, And LPs
The Blu-ray and DVD releases of Oppenheimer, for example, sold out in a week or so. Some of this is the basic fan/collector impulse,...
The US State Department Has Launched A(nother) Global Music Diplomacy Initiative. Can It Work?
The goal of the program is, said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, to use American music and musicians, across many genres, "to strengthen the...
Meet The Founding Composer Of Cuban Classical Music
Esteban Salas y Castro (1725-1803) grew up in Havana and worked as music director at an important parish church there and at the cathedral...
Five More Ways That AI Will Change Art
Even more arguments about appropriation. Parasocial aesthetics. (Yes, there's a definition of that.) Art that's about trying to outfox or even break AI. And...
Ana Ofelia Murguía, One Of Mexico’s Greatest Actresses (And The Voice Of Pixar’s Coco),...
Particularly known for playing villainesses, Murguía enjoyed a nearly 70-year career that spanned over 100 roles on film, television and the stage. She won...
Salman Rushdie’s Coming Memoir Of His Attack May Cause The Delay Of His Attacker’s...
The trial judge ruled that defendant Hadi Matar and his attorney are entitled to a copy of the manuscript and related material as part...
