SoulPepper Theatre Launches A Community “Public Domain” Project
With a full slate of free programming that ranges from workshops and classes to performance, the company is hoping to become a neighbourhood hub....
It’s Not Easy Finding Jurors For Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial
“Several dismissed jurors were open about why they couldn’t serve fairly. (One) told a pool reporter, ‘I don’t like the guy; he is a...
France Agrees To Collaborate With India On Major Controversial Museum Project
The controversy around France’s deal with India may appear more ambiguous to a Western audience. Is it France’s concern if the YYBNM decides to...
Why The “Odyssey” Is All Over The Place Right Now
“The Iliad is the poem of death. Death stalks its lines, blood soaks it. Countless young men appear in the poem only to be cut down. … But...
On The “Odyssey” And Its Ubiquity And Oddity
“We can read the Odyssey today with a sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these...
Preemptive Compliance: Orlando Suspends DEI Arts Grants “Out Of An Abundance Of Caution”
“Organizations impacted include Opera Orlando, the Orlando Ballet, and the Orlando Science Center, to name a few. The canceled grants total $200,000 dollars and were earmarked for arts...
Number Of Productions Staged By British Theatres Has Plummeted Over Last Decade
“The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres last year was down by almost a third compared with 10...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Accuses Russians Of Selling Off Art And Artifacts They’ve Looted
“Russia has stolen more than 1.7 million pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage since its full-scale invasion began, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and...
Bigger-Bodied Ballet Dancers Are The Future, Says Head Of Royal Ballet School
“Iain Mackay, artistic director of the school, said studios were focusing on strength-based training for both sexes as ballet moved away from the ‘slim’...
After Harvard Rejects His Demands, Trump Threatens Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
“’Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting...
It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist
“The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was...
The Man Behind Philadelphia Pianos
For the past several decades, Greg Sikora has tuned and voiced pianos for the biggest musical artists to play this region, from Frank Sinatra...
Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”
“In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from...
Why The Human Brain Needs Ideologies
Our brains are these amazingly predictive organs trying to constantly explain the world, because that’s our way to survive. We have to have a...
Tech Titans Propose An End To Intellectual Property
One can only imagine what the value of music would look like if copyright protections were to disappear altogether. It would not be a...
How “Six” Challenges Conventional Broadway Musical Conventions
“Six,” which runs a sleek 85 minutes as an unruly concert where performers are explicitly competing for the audience’s sympathy, might ultimately be less...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
The Classically Cool Frick Re-emerges
If the museum experience is now more stylistically bifurcated — the Beaux Arts past on one side of the complex, a sympathetic but unapologetic...
Trump Administration Wants Congress To Cancel Funding For PBS, NPR
The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If Congress agrees, that will...
Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That...
Why Trump’s Sculpture Garden Project Of American Heroes Is A Big Deal
Effectively killing the NEH in its current form and then reallocating its money to build the National Garden of American Heroes—the centerpiece of Trump’s plans to...
Stem Or Humanities? It’s a Disastrous Distinction
In fact, neither one of these labels names a particularly coherent group of fields. STEM covers endeavors as different in their workings and aims...
Do We Even Know What Classical Music Is These Days?
Like every other sector of cultural life, classical music has been roiled over the past decade by intense debates about the field’s ongoing lack...
After Last Year’s Fiasco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Works To Rebuild “Community Trust”
“(A) task force … will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations ... The news comes after the dance company reached a settlement for...
Why We Went Ahead And Played At The Kennedy Center
Ryan Miller of the band Guster: “We wanted to support the staff who were caught in this political crossfire; the fans who had bought...
