Douglas McLennan
“Mockingbird” Sets New Touring Record
For the one-week, eight performance engagement at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA (May 7-12, 2024), the play grossed $2,286,768.75, setting a record for...
Inside The Brutal Murder Of NYC Gallery Star Brent Sikkema
"Within hours, Brent became the focus of a high-profile police investigation, reverberating across a horrified international art world that revered him. The murder weapon,...
NYC Building Film Production To Rival Hollywood
The aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles,...
Steve Martin Writes About Being Friends With Peter Schjeldahl
Peter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense....
Are You A Music Or Lyrics Person?
Do you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? - Dirt
YouTube Is Now The Second-Most Popular TV Network
Once a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights...
A Four-Step Method To Spot Fake News
When it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to...
Assessing The “Devastating” Cyberattack On Christie’s
It was not immediately clear whether it is only the public-facing website that is affected, or whether any client information was at risk. Christie’s...
LA’s East West Players Chooses Lily Tung Crystal As Its New Director
Tung Crystal is currently the artistic director of Theater Mu, the largest Asian American theater company in the Midwest, as part of its first...
Inflation Has Wrecked UK Musicians’ Ability To Make Money
“Music labels, even if they’re small, still have such a hold over artists who can’t afford to pay for production themselves. You’re always owing...
Using Technology To Enhance Audience Engagement
The performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual...
It Sure Seems Like AI Is Not Living Up To The Hype
"It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like...
The Art Of Memory: Forgetting Might Be A Tool For Remembering
Thinking of memory as an adaptive trait has a less obvious and perhaps more interesting corollary: “Viewed through this lens, it is apparent that...
Like, These Filler Words Have A Purpose
They call it “filler,” and it’s hard not to regard it as something bordering on the sublinguistic, an almost intolerable torturing of the magnificent...
Saxophonist David Sanborn, 78
Sanborn was known for luxurious saxophone melodies on songs including "Maputo," but his sound — informed by R&B and global funk— and his legacy...
New Visions For Broadway Choreography
This broader vision of theatrical choreography is worth noticing and applauding. - The New York Times
Kathleen Battle Returns To The Met. Tim Page Reports
Ms. Battle was greeted with an immediate and prolonged standing ovation—the first of many—from her eager audience as she walked onstage in a black...
Alice Munro, 92
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario....
The Underground World Of Collecting Movie Memorabilia
It used to be an underground hobby. People did it, but nobody talked about it—not only because it was embarrassing to admit that you...
TV Advertising Is Dying
TV commercials have long stood as the cornerstone of modern advertising. This dominance was owed, in part, to TV’s capacity to reach vast and...
Why Hasn’t The Seattle Symphony Chosen A New Music Director?
Krishna Thiagarajan, president and CEO of Seattle Symphony, said the Symphony’s search for Dausgaard’s successor began in earnest between one-and-a-half and two years ago,...
The Art Of Collecting Classical Music Memorabilia
That signed Stravinsky photo will set you back £1,850. For a collection of eight lavishly illustrated Ballets Russes souvenir programmes or a copy of Porgy and Bess signed...
Wilderness, A Concept
Rooted in the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and David Brower, this idea influences people who love wild...
AI Can Now Create Music On Demand. What This Means For Music
"To me this highlights something sometimes missed about musical expression: AI doesn’t need to experience emotions and life events to successfully express them in music that resonates with people." -...
Needed: A Revolution In Music Metadata
Since the era of Napster, digital music has lacked robust metadata frameworks, leaving compositions vulnerable to misattribution and exploitation. I believe we urgently need comprehensive...