Ukrainian Soldiers’ Dance Videos Are The Latest Social Media Hit
"One comment with over 1,800 likes said, 'Damn! These Ukrainians do have a sense of humor. I'm rooting for you,' while a comment with...
You Think It’s Taken A Long Time For Hollywood To Pay Women And Men...
Priyanka Chopra says that in a 20-year career, "I've never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary...
George Newall, Last Surviving Co-Creator Of “Schoolhouse Rock,” Is Dead At 88
He was creative director of an ad agency when the boss complained that his sons could remember rock lyrics but not multiplication tables and...
This Director May Have Figured Out How To Rescue Sondheim’s Most Notorious Flop
For four decades, the consensus has been that — despite some excellent songs, and despite repeated adjustments during revivals — there's just no way...
The Blue Man Group Has Been Running For 30 Years — Longer Than “Phantom...
Indeed, Phantom is ending its long Broadway run this spring, but the Blue Man Group (granted, in a smaller house) just keeps on —...
BBC’s Boss Predicts It Will Be Online-Only In Ten Years
Director general Tim Davie: "Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A...
English National Opera May Keep Performing In London If It Makes Its Base Somewhere...
Arts Council England head Darren Henley told a parliamentary committee, "We are saying we would like to see an organisation with a base outside...
Now That It’s Safe, Gustavo Dudamel Visits Home Again
This was also his first trip to Venezuela in six years. Inciting the wrath of President Nicolás Maduro, Dudamel had become politically persona non...
Canada Doubles Down On Canadian Content Rules For Media
The CRTC's moves toward greater flexibility for radio include introducing new criteria to determine whether a song is Canadian, including refining content categories to...
The Gamification Of Everything Is A Fraud
The application of game design principles like leaderboards, progress bars, points, badges, levels, challenges, and activity streaks to nongame ends has seeped into just...
A Seattle Business Blasts Classical Music To Harass Homeless Encampment
Nearby business owners said the Comcast Service Center has been playing loud music from a surveillance system with a speaker for about a month...
Big Cable Networks Are Failing In The Age Of Streaming
NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Walt Disney together own dozens of underperforming cable networks that are quickly losing relevance in the age of streaming. -...
Theatre Director Quits After UK Arts Funding Cuts
Roxana Silbert has quit as the north London theatre’s artistic director because of the financial constraints it is facing after Arts Council England’s decision...
Indian Classical Dance As Journalism? Well, Yes, Sort Of …
Nadhi Thekkek and her San Francisco company, Nava Dance Theatre, use the style and vocabulary of bharatanatyam to tell contemporary stories taken from the...
Hollywood’s Streaming Ambitions Hit A Business Model Collapse
“It was our belief that cord-cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming. This has not been the case. We are primarily a...
The Paris Opera Starts Up Performing Arts Training Programs In French Guiana
"As well as offering workshops in ballet, contemporary dance, hip-hop and singing, she explains, the Paris Opera will also launch an apprenticeship programme for...
Qatar’s Unreal New Landscape Of Amazing New Buildings
Qatar spent a reported $220 billion preparing for the tournament, conjuring new buildings, new neighborhoods and even an entirely new city. To be here now...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: What Killed Him?
He was a lifelong alcoholic, so the common assumption has been that he died of alcohol poisoning or related organ failure — but medical...
The Gender Pay Gap In The Arts In Australia Is Really Pretty Wide
"A survey of professionals across the performing and visual arts found overall incomes for women were 25% less than their male counterparts, ... almost...
Behind Disney’s Bob Swap
It’s a story about how to structure a company like Disney. Then you add in the complexity of the shift to streaming, the future...
A New York Times Classical Music Critic Makes His Metropolitan Opera Stage Debut
Joshua Barone writes about becoming one of the throngs of supernumeraries in the Triumphal March of the Met's very grand production of Verdi's very...
The Choices For 2022’s Word Of The Year Are Weird And All Over The...
The selections: a word that describes 2022 entirely too well; an all-too-common behavioral M.O. these days; a now-overused term derived from a Hollywood movie;...
“Fam and Yam”, The Edward Albee One-Act You Probably Never Knew About
A thinly veiled swipe at playwright William Inge (and at himself), the play seems to have been deliberately omitted by Albee from his collected...
Latvia’s Government Revokes The Broadcasting License Of Russia’s Leading Dissident TV-Network-In-Exile
"Dozhd — also known as TV Rain — had been fined earlier this month for airing a map labeling Crimea as Russian territory, and...
Metropolitan Opera Is Hacked; Website And Ticketing System Are Paralyzed
The attack was discovered Tuesday morning and is ongoing; rehearsals and performances are going on more or less as scheduled. The perpetrators have not...
