Broadway Box Office Down Again Last week
In all, the total attendance of 139,584 indicates that about 74% of available seats were filled. Average ticket price was stayed at a modest...
Dudamel On Conducting For Leonard Bernstein Biopic
When the call came from Steven Spielberg to conduct Bernstein’s iconic score for his 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story, “it was the most ‘yes’ yes I’ve...
Art Gallery Of Ontario Plans Major Expansion
The expansion could prove transformative for the museum, which has in recent years made efforts to beef up its contemporary art offerings. - ARTnews
How $100 Million Shapes The New Vancouver Art Gallery
The design also includes more than 80,000 square feet of exhibition space, a theatre, a library, artist studios, space for a visual arts preschool...
Mirga Will Not Be Taking An American Orchestra Job Anytime Soon
"As administrators search for a conductor of her stature, as well as for someone to tip the scale of gender balance in the United...
Gas Crisis Threatens Famous Murano Glass Production
“After two years scanning covid charts, we’re doing the same with natural gas prices as the curve rises, with the life and death of...
The U.S. Now Has One Massive Spanish-Language TV Network
"Univision and the Mexican TV giant Televisa completed their $4.8 billion merger on Monday, (combining) Televisa's media content and production assets with Univision's assets,...
Little Joy (Or Buzz) In Hollywood As Awards Season Starts
With movies facing what feels to many like an existential crisis and the box office for adult-oriented films all but decimated, few in the business...
The Lady Who Wrote “Goodnight, Moon” Was No Gentle Madonna
Margaret Wise Brown "burned through her money as quickly as she earned it, travelling to Europe on ocean liners and spending entire advances on...
New Data: Streaming Subscribers Who Sign Up For Specific Big Shows Leave Soon After
All streaming services see a portion of U.S. customers unsubscribe every month and have been signing up more users than they lose over time....
Greece Is Restoring Its Ancient Amphitheatres And Returning Them To Use
From Epiros in the north down to Sparta and beyond, the outdoor venues where classical drama was born are being rediscovered: 25 are hosting...
How Method Acting Made Me Mad
The idea that an actor must authentically experience and feel the lived reality of the character he is playing—and therefore be infinitely present and...
All Over France, An Exhibition Shows The Sensuous Side Of Muslim Culture
"It is called 'The Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present', and each of its 18 participating venues contains 10 works intended to...
Public Libraries Are Offering Training In Starting And Running A Small Business
"As the pandemic has spurred an entrepreneurship boom, many public libraries have stepped in to meet a growing need among new business owners, particularly...
Broadway’s Reopening Last Fall Did Not Go As Expected, Even Before December’s Omicron Spike
"During the months when the pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and...
Federico Bonelli, Star Of London’s Royal Ballet, Named Artistic Director Of England’s Ballet North
Bonelli succeeds David Nixon, who ran the company — based in Leeds but touring more than any other ballet troupe in the UK —...
Chicago Sun-Times Is Now Officially A Subsidiary Of Chicago Public Radio
The merger, announced last fall and officially completed on Jan. 31, is funded by $61 million in donations from foundations and individuals. The money...
New York Times Drops A Million Or Two To Buy Wordle
The newspaper said that it paid an amount "in the low seven figures" for the game, which was released in October and gained hundreds...
Uffizi Gallery, Mecca Of Renaissance Art, Moves Slowly Into Contemporary Work
It's not easy to do this, since people come from all over the world to see the classics, but the Florence museum's dynamic director,...
Why Are Demands For Book Bans Increasing?
Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. The American Library Association...
What Does A City Benefit When Hollywood Comes To Town?
"It's fine to boast about having Amazon and Netflix in our back yard but if they got a better tax credit in France or...
Justin Bieber Becomes First Artist To Get Ten YouTube Videos With A Billion Views...
With this legacy defining milestone, Bieber’s rise as one of the world’s top artists is undeniable. How did he get there? - Toronto Star
Dissent: Against Joan Didion
Nothing ever seemed to excite her or faze her or disappoint her, largely because she set her sights so low to begin with. - The...
Online Dating Apps: Your Taste In Music Is A Disqualifier
On dating apps, music taste has become one of the primary ways of signalling one’s suitability as a mate – and how, by reducing...
Does Anyone Understand Method Acting?
Strasberg began to think about what made some performances succeed and some fail, and concluded that it must have to do with whether or...
