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New Generation Of Leaders Tries To Resurrect Chicago Improv
Even without the pandemic, 2020 was a difficult year for Second City and the iO Theater, two of Chicago's flagships for improv, and both...
“West Side Story” Revival Won’t Be Returning To Broadway
The controversial staging, directed by Ivo van Hove, co-choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and produced by Scott Rudin, barely made it past 100...
Visitors Are Flocking Back To Berlin’s Museum Island
Free admission on Sundays certainly helps: tens of thousands are showing up on weekends. - Bloomberg CityLab
The Death Of The Author? Er, In Which Sense?
Kristen Roupenian ("Cat Person") considers two superfans, Annie Wilkes in Misery and Harry in With a Friend Like Harry, who completely lose the distinction...
Members Of Pussy Riot Flee Russia And “Constant Arrests”
"Citing a campaign of sustained harassment by the Russian government, … Alexander Sofeyev, Anna Kuzminykh, and Veronika Nikulshina announced via Twitter that they left...
Actor Arthur French, Founding Member Of Negro Ensemble Company, Dead At 89
He started studying acting when he happened to be in the building where Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler taught — and went on to...
In Cuba, Dance And Politics Have A Long History Together
"The history of dance in Cuba" — from the Alonsos' national ballet company in 1948 to today's protests — "shows us how artists not...
Traveling Talkies: India’s Itinerant Cinema Tents Are Fading Away
Starting in the 1950s, small companies would roam the village festival circuit, setting up tents and showing old films with aging projectors cast off...
Bringing India’s Folk Musicians Back Into The Mainstream — And Getting Them Paid
"Seventy percent of India's musicians practice folk, but they earn only 2% of the industry's revenues. … Many listeners today only hear the genre...
What Does US Theater Need? Shared Leadership, Salaried Jobs For Artists, Continued Digital Exploration:...
The survey of 75 leaders also found a need to safely discuss big ideas. "Right now we do not have an ability to have...
Gotham Awards Eliminate Gendered Acting Categories
The ceremony honoring independent film "will replace its best actress and best actor categories with a single category for outstanding lead performance. For the...
Greece Closes Acropolis As Wildfires Burn And Athens Chokes On Smoke
"Across southern Europe, large wildfires have so far killed eight people and caused mass evacuations while also threatening to damage ancient cultural sites. In...
UK Gov’t Announces $1 Billion Insurance Plan To Cover Performance Cancellations Due To COVID
The Live Events Reinsurance Scheme, a partnership with Lloyds, sets aside £750 million to offer cancellation insurance that private companies have been unwilling to...
Ethiopia’s Ancient Rock-Hewn Churches Captured By Tigrayan Rebels
Residents of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site that's home to 11 landmark 13th-century churches and a major pilgrimage destination for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians,...
Russia Blocks Popular Online Community DeviantArt
Roskomnadzor, the country's communications regulator, "said it had sent 145 requests to DeviantArt to remove unlawful content from its site since 2019, saying certain...
No, Say Musicians, UK Government Has Not Solved Post-Brexit Touring Problem
"We knew all this in January," says the CEO of the musicians' trade body. "The idea that the government has done something fantastic or...
We Need Better Plots About Friendship
"When friendship exists in the background, it's unremarkable but generally uncomplicated. But when friendship becomes the plot, then the only story to tell is...
What Holds This Tiny Former Mining Town Together? Its Theater Company
Elisabeth Vincentelli visits Creede, Colorado (population 350), isolated high in the San Juan Mountains, to check out the Creede Repertory Theater, which came up...
Will Scott Rudin Make A Comeback? Could He If He Wanted To?
Word is that the disgraced producer hopes to return, and he claims he's working to improve his notorious temper. Would he be accepted? Some...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Should Be Overhauled To Focus On The Internet: Study
The German Marshall Fund has issued a policy paper arguing that the CPB, which currently channels federal money to local public TV and radio...
Bolshoi Ballet Director Wants Company To Build A Third Theatre
The Moscow troupe has the famous 1,680-seat house, which he calls the Historic Stage, and a venue opened in 2002, called the New Stage,...
Who’s Everyone’s Favorite Guy At Jacob’s Pillow This Year? The Weatherman
With all performances outdoors this year, the dance festival hired its first resident meteorologist, Paul Caiano from nearby Albany. And, since this summer's weather...
Does “Jeopardy!” Have Its New Host?
If so, it's an inside job: reportedly, the chosen candidate, now said to be in advanced negotiations with Sony Pictures Television, is the quiz...
UK May Finally Have Solved Musicians’ Post-Brexit Touring Problem
"The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it had negotiated with 19 EU member state countries to allow British musicians and performers...
Artist’s Memorial To Victims Of Beirut Explosion Draws Controversy
The Gesture, an 82-foot sculpture by Nadim Karam, is made of steel debris from last year's catastrophe and stands at the blast site itself....
