Yearly Archives: 2021
A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here
"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to...
Michael Bobbitt Is Tired Of Boards. What To Do?
Ugh. In our current structure, boards of directors for nonprofits don’t work. I’m sure there are outliers with highly functioning boards, but this is...
How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A...
Despite the disastrous rollout of a book that had been advance-hyped by some as a Grapes of Wrath-level work of literature, Jeanine Cummins's thriller...
Squatters Invade Site Of Oldest City In Americas And Threaten To Kill Archaeologists
The place is Caral, estimated to be 5,000 years old and now a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Peruvian coastal desert about 125...
Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59
" was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose...
Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not...
Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters —...
To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To...
The long-financially-strapped school — which shut itself down last March, only to reverse that decision a month later after raising $3 million — has...
The Current State Of Lockdowns Around Europe
Rules vary quite a bit between the eight countries covered here. The Netherlands, which has seen a huge surge in cases, is quite strict;...
Britain’s Gone Into Another Lockdown. How Are The Arts Affected?
It's not as bad as it was last spring, and, in London, not too different from the last couple of weeks. "As per Gov.uk...
Grammy Awards Postponed For Six Weeks Due To Pandemic
The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah, had been scheduled for January 31. It will now take place on March 14, due to, as a...
LA Movie And TV Production Shuts Down
Production shutdowns are expensive, and a delay of a few weeks would disrupt series’ delivery dates and air pattern. This is especially crucial for...
An Enormous Expansion Of Melbourne Contemporary Museum
The proposed new building, the NGV Contemporary in Melbourne, will be Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, says Tony Ellwood, the director...
Ray Bradbury’s Outsized Influence On American Culture
There were other fine sci-fi writers, but Ray was the one who first engaged the mainstream audience. He had a huge impact on both...
Has The Gagosian Gallery Left San Francisco?
As of Thursday, Dec. 31, the gallery phone was disconnected and the exterior banner as well as signage in the window had been removed....
The Biggest Archaeological Finds Of 2020
As always, Egypt was fruitful ground for archaeologists, with the discovery of the first ancient Egyptian funeral parlor, the world’s oldest Illustrated book, and a mummy buried...
When Theatre Comes Back To Stages It Will Be Different. But That’s OK
"While there have been times during the past year when theatre and all who work in it have felt helpless, unloved and ignored, there...
He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
At the height of the disco craze in the late 1970s, Empire Rollerdrome, a rink in Brooklyn across the street from where the Brooklyn...
More Museums Are Presenting “Sponsored Content.” Is This A Problem?
"On either side of the Atlantic, museums have teamed up with corporations in an effort to utilize their spaces—and collections—in order to reach new...
Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working...
What Recent Research Reveals About Narcissists
"There’s a difference between everyday selfishness and real narcissism – and there’s a distinction between a normal personality trait and the harmful, rare personality...
Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
Her horrible 2020 began in January when movers dropped her four-pedal Fazioli, the instrument on which she made every recording she'd done since 2003....
Inside The Largest Trove Of Nazi Propaganda
Today, one of the world’s largest collections of Nazi propaganda sits in a climate-controlled warehouse at Fort Belvoir, in northern Virginia. Much of it...
Figures Are In: North American Movie Box Office Income Was Down 80% In 2020
"As predicted, domestic movie tickets sold between Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 came generated an estimated $2.3 billion (or $2.28 billion) compared to $11.4...
Progress Report: BIPOC Representation In American Theatre
"Time will tell if theater grantmakers adopt the coalition’s demands en masse, and some of the demands have yet to make it into grantmakers’...
In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
"Imported films accounted for only about a sixth of China's total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan...