Yearly Archives: 2021
Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch In 2022
Choreographers and performers from Africa and its diaspora have a notable presence on the coming year's list, as do dancers blurring gender boundaries and...
The Guggenheim Preached Austerity During COVID, Then Gave Its Director A Forty Percent Raise
The Guggenheim’s 990 IRS Filings, a form the US Federal government uses to gather information about tax-exempt organisations, shows Armstrong’s total compensation increased from...
A New Sequel To “West Side Story” Will Take Maria Back To Puerto Rico
Long Wharf Theater in New Haven has commissioned Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp of the company Universes to create a musical, titled Maria, that...
Maybe The Problem With Spielberg’s “West Side Story” Is That Movie Audiences Are Tired...
Not sequels: people obviously love new installments in a franchise. The difference seems to be that fans want the characters they already know in...
Broadway Will Not Be Shutting Down Completely, Declares President Of Broadway League
"Yes, some shows are closing. we have absolutely no plans to shut down. We are paying serious attention to the protocols. The other...
Arts Groups Really, Really Hope Children Will Turn Out For Holiday Shows This Year
Ballet companies count on the income from parents bringing the kids to Nutcracker; same with the Met Opera's English-language children's versions of classics; many...
Lorne Michaels Sets A Timetable For Retiring From “Saturday Night Live”
"You know, I think I'm committed to doing this show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years," said Michaels, who'll be 80...
The Parthenon Marbles Stolen by Elgin? Not Our Problem, Says Boris’s Government
Yes, Prime Minister Johnson argued back in 1986 that they should return to Greece, but as recently as last month, he reiterated to Greece's...
Netherlands Shuts Down The Arts (And Most Other Things) Due To Omicron
Performance spaces and cinemas, bars and restaurants, and other non-essential businesses are closed until mid-January. This and a similar lockdown in Denmark are, so...
How Looney Tunes Got A Foothold In American Culture
Why did several generations watch old Looney Tunes alongside new work and actually prefer the stuff made before they were born? It was partly a historical...
What’s The Point Of Coming In To An Office?
The offices of tomorrow may have more in common with a café or a classroom or a maker space, IDEO's Sandy Speicher says. It’s...
The Art Of Museum Store Shopping
You must resist the siren call of logoed knickknacks. These items transmit either “I was there” (which, as the gift giver, you are already...
Culture Shift: Gen Z Kids Are Abandoning Real-World Sports For E-Games
It’s clear that the rise of e-sports has come at the expense of traditional youth sports, with implications for their future and for the...
Do Great Books Courses Make Us Better?
John McWhorter: "To simply know that the kinds of questions Rousseau stimulates are, indeed, questions makes you a better person in the sheer sense...
Revealed: Boris Johnson Argued Passionately For Return Of Parthenon Marbles In 1986
“The Elgin marbles should leave this northern whisky-drinking guilt-culture, and be displayed where they belong: in a country of bright sunshine and the landscape...
“Best Theatre of 2021” Makes No Sense – But There’s Plenty To Be Grateful...
No one could pretend that we’re back to normal yet. There likely is no going back — and after a year of overdue cultural...
Seven Theatre Trends For 2022
Journalist Jonathan Mandell looks at the trends from the past year and sees progress and stagnation. - New York Theatre
Why The Music Catalog Market Is Setting New Records
New investors, including private equity firms, have poured billions of dollars into the market, viewing music royalties as a kind of safe commodity —...
America Out Of Ideas? No – But Our Market For Ideas Is Broken
Two weeks ago, I wrote that the U.S. needed a revitalized culture of experimentation. Now I think that what we really need is more...
You Think Jesus Christ, Superstar Was The First Concept Album To Become A Musical?
Nope. That honor goes to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. "The 1966 concept recording is a fascinating document for fans of the musical,...
A Book At Christmas Can Change The Entire Course Of A Life
Choose wisely. - The Guardian (UK)
Can Northern Ireland’s Christmas Pantos Possibly Be Safe This Year?
Maybe not, but the performers are eager not to replicate last year's cancellations and lack of revenue. And yet ... a thousand screaming children...
Reading In Translation
"Well, friends, another grim and grueling plague year is drawing to a close, and that can mean only one thing." Reading - but why...
A Change That Means Much More Than Hope
The 88-year-old Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin says Canada's commitment to making First Nations stories has grown tremendously. From where she began to now, she...
We’re Never Going Back To Normal
So we have to figure out how to deal with "normal-adjacent," at least for the foreseeable future. - Los Angeles Times