Presenting A Revolution In Women’s Bodies Onstage
Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger "presents women’s ability to endure discomfort as something to be celebrated, but also questioned. Our resilience is mighty and formidable...
Metropolitan Opera Sold Two-Thirds Of Its Tickets This Past Season, But The Audience Is...
"The Met sold 66% of tickets during the season that ended Saturday, up from 61% during the 2021-22 season. Sales were lower than budgeted...
Even More Artists Are Saying They’ve Been Stiffed By Brown Paper Tickets
"Representatives from several (Philadelphia-area) arts groups report selling tickets through Brown Paper Tickets only to be left hanging for weeks, months, or, in (one)...
HarperCollins And Private Equity Firm KKR Both Want To Buy Simon & Schuster: Report
"Both were among the losing bidders to Penguin Random House's $2.2 billion offer. PRH's acquisition, of course, was blocked by the government last fall."...
L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum Cancels 2023-24 Season Amid Financial Crisis
"Facing a significant budget shortfall, Center Theatre Group on Thursday announced that it would lay off about 10% of its full-time staff and pause...
Oh, Great, Now We Have Climate-Protesting Opera Vandals, Too
Three protestors from the British group Just Stop Oil used air horns and glitter cannons to interrupt Thursday's performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the...
Rufus Norris, Director Of London’s National Theatre, Will Step Down In 2025
"His time in charge (has) seen 10 Culture Secretaries come and five Prime Ministers come and go as well as the impact of Brexit...
Liverpool Vies To Be New Home Of English National Opera. Process Is “Complicated,” Says...
In a letter to Culture Minister Lord Parkinson, Mr Rotheram and Liverpool City Council leader Liam Robinson said it would be "an honour" to...
Streaming Companies Spent 100s Of Millions Of Dollars On Content. Worth It?
In this country, nothing indicates cultural importance more than cash, and seeing this much of it handed out to creators of television said as...
David Remnick Remembers Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just...
Our Metaphors For Language Shape How We Think
For example, if we talk about “wasting” or “saving” time, we treat time as if it were a commodity. Or, if we say that...
What Failure Can And Cannot Do For You
In a culture that demands overcoming against all odds, even failure has been commodified by the American self-help industrial complex: rebranded not as a...
What Libraries Are Becoming
Libraries were once places to access books. They are now places to access everything? The last place to access anything? As the social safety...
So What’s The Deal With Van Gogh And Cypresses?
"Every element of the natural world tremored with significance in Vincent van Gogh's world. Sunflowers were his symbol of joy and devotion. Stars were...
Asian Movie Theatre Box Office Is Down. So They’re Being Inventive
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to...
A Brief, Cradle-To-Grave History Of Children’s Radio
"During the height of the pandemic, the only real player (left) in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, quietly wound down. … Today's...
California Mandated Ambitious Arts Education For Students. Why Isn’t It Working?
“It can't be an after-school program only because that builds inequitable access. Art needs to be consistent in terms of hands-on experience, as well...
People Are Totally Lining Up To Cast Me As Soon As I’m Acquitted, Says...
"It's a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled. But I know...
How Hadid Architects Are Using AI To Design Better Buildings
Mr. Blum said ZHAI had a computer tool that, in 27 hours, could come up with 100,000 designs for a building’s interior; an architect...
The Bay Area’s Mass Transit Is Facing A Cash Crisis. The Region’s Theater Scene...
Over a third of the audience of the major theater companies uses mass transit, as do half the artists and staff; the percentage is...
17 Music Publishers Sue Twitter For $250 Million
According to the publishers, Musk's company allows users to share music on the platform without permission from the copyright holders. - Mashable
The Case Of “Robbin’ Hood” And The Disappearing, Reappearing Picasso
In February 1969, amid one of Boston's worst-ever snowstorms, a crate containing Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer went missing from Logan...
Glenda Jackson, 87
"Hollywood showered her with admiration and two best actress Oscars. But Jackson was not easily flattered. Famously prickly, her view of Tinseltown often bordered...
Ukrainian Cultural Sites Damaged In Floods Following The Blow-Up Of The Kakhovka Dam
"Churches, monuments and museums are submerged all over the Kherson region. Archaeological sites dating back to the Scythians — a nomadic people who lived...
Southern California Public Radio Is Laying Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff
SCPR, which operates the LAist website and LAist radio station (the NPR affiliate formerly called KPCC) as well as a podcasting studio, will eliminate...
