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What Dancers And Choreographers Should Consider When Presented With Non-Disclosure Agreements
There are very legitimate concerns which such agreements can protect against, so an NDA shouldn't be rejected on general principle. Here's what to look...
Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Is Out After Only Nine Months
"The chair of the OA board, Rod Sims, said that Davies’s contract was prematurely severed by mutual agreement … due to 'differences of opinion...
NPR Is Hiring A “Joy Czar”
"Embedded in the newsroom throughout the year, the person will aim to 'ratchet up our ‘joy’ quotient across platforms,' according to an internal memo."...
About 96 Percent Of NFTs Are “Dead”: Study
After examining over 5,000 NFT collections and collecting 5 million transactions from NFTScan, researchers found that the overwhelming majority are dead (zero trading volume...
University Of The Arts Rescue Plan, A Merger With Temple University, Is Scuttled
"The Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, which contributed about half of UArts’ $62 million endowment, is not in favor of that money going to Temple...
Publishers File First Amendment Lawsuit Against Florida Over School Library Law
"Florida’s statute ... requires districts to set up a process for a parent or resident of the county to contest school and classroom library...
Ticket Sales At Bayreuth Rebound, Special 150th Anniversary Ring Cycle Announced
After a worrisome dip in attendance in 2023 (to 97%), ticket sales to the summer Wagner mecca were up to a total of 58,000...
Ofra Bikel, Whose Documentaries Helped Exonerate The Wrongly Convicted, Is Dead At 94
"(Her) work for PBS’s 'Frontline' investigative series exposed frailties in the U.S. criminal justice system — the coercive use of plea bargains, the failure...
“Nutritious Work”: What Tarell Alvin McCraney Wants To Make Happen At The Geffen Playhouse
"When we get folks in from every walk of our community, they can start having a conversation differently than, 'Get out of my way,...
Why Dark Comedies Are The TV Fare We Need
"In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real...
Meet Guillaume Diop, Paris Opera Ballet’s First-Ever Black Etoile
"Diop’s progress through the strict hierarchy at the Paris Opera – he joined the corps de ballet in 2018 – has been stunningly swift....
After Four Years And $125 Million, San Diego Symphony’s Renovated Home Is Ready To...
"Although the outside of Jacobs Music Center appears much the same as it did in March 2020, when the orchestra played its last concert...
By The Numbers: What Went Into The Renovation Of The San Diego Symphony’s Concert...
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging...
Auctioneer Stumbles On Ten Signed Dalí Prints In Someone’s Garage
Chris Kirkham, associate director of Hansons Richmond auction house in London: "I was invited to assess some antiques at a client’s home. During the...
Bookshop.org’s New Plan To Buy And Resell Used Books
"The scheme, Bookloop by Bookshop.org, allows customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the website. Readers can register books through...
With $20 Million Deficit, California College Of The Arts Warns Of Layoffs, Considers Merger
"California College of the Arts is facing a $20 million deficit due to a dramatic drop in student enrollment, even as it prepares to...
Charlotte Symphony’s New Contract Gives Musicians 13.5% Pay Raise
"Under the agreement, reached with (AFM) Local 342, the minimum salary for CSO musicians will increase from $45,861 to $53,709 over the course of...
Hapless Four-Year-Old Boy Breaks 3,500-Year-Old Jar
"The Hecht Museum in Haifa (said) the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC — and was a rare artefact...
Chaucer, The Master Amalgamator (And Inveterate Thief)
Not only did he take characters and stories from all walks of 14th-century English life, he borrowed phrases from Latin, French, and Italian; took...
Theatre Folks Are Inveterate Pranksters, Onstage And Backstage
"The Broadway or West End grind, in which a cast can perform the same show eight times a week for months or years on...
Why Christopher Marney Revived The Long-Dead London City Ballet
"I spoke to many UK venues that London City Ballet once toured to, and it seemed these days few British ballet companies are passing...
How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Unloved Brutalist Behemoths Of D.C.?
A few architects share ideas for cheering up forbidding concrete hulks like the FBI headquarters, Hubert Humphrey Building, and Hirshhorn Museum. Others, however, like...
How Urban Bush Women Manages The First Leadership Transition In Its 40-Year History
Company founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar has handed the reins to co-artistic directors Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. "In the spirit of sankofa...
Dennis Quaid And His Perpetual Comeback
After two career collapses (one due to cocaine, one to a nervous breakdown), he has "carved out a space in Hollywood of his own,...
Library-Book-Banning Mania Has Arrived In Australia
Electors in Albany, Western Australia (about 4½ hours south of Perth) voted to remove two sex education titles, one aimed at teens, from public...