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Governor And Mayor Announce Programs To Revive New York’s Live Performance Industry
And, given the notorious personal relationship between the two men, it's no surprise that their plans are entirely separate. Governor Cuomo's scheme, called NY...
Broadway’s Shutdown Has A Long Economic Reach
"By one count, Broadway is directly responsible for nearly 100,000 jobs in New York City alone and, as a leading attraction for people who...
Paris Opera Ballet Publishes Report On Race In Company, And Management Will Act On...
"'There will be no blackface, or yellowface,' Neef told reporters, but works like La Bayadère and The Nutcracker would remain, with possible further...
Louvre’s New Conservation Facility Will Hold One-Third Of The Museum’s Entire Collection
The Louvre Conservation Center, located in Liévin (20 miles or so southwest of Lille), "has six storage areas, including dry, low-humidity areas for metalworks,...
Germany Earmarks Another €1 Billion In COVID Relief To Its Arts Sector
"This marks the second chapter of the so-called 'Neustart Kultur' program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of...
Can a New LACMA Rise from the Rubble? Quaffing Michael Govan’s Kool-Aid
The doubts engendered in me by the shifting ground (related to the proximity to the La Brea Tar Pits) under the cranes being used...
David Stull Discusses Acquiring Opus 3
The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school's historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. - Aaron Dworkin
Why Quarterbacks Say ‘Hut’ And ‘Hike’
Back in 2009, the NFL itself was wondering about that very question. So they asked Ben Zimmer, America's most famous lexicographer, to look into...
While Bela Lugosi Slept, They Made A Whole Other ‘Dracula’ On The Set —...
"Shot in half the time the Lugosi vehicle was allotted, and on a much smaller budget, Drácula" — yes, it's the Spanish version —...
Video Opera And ‘Relevance’: Where They Meet And Where They Miss
"Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?" asks David Patrick Stearns. "The reverse of what I expected."...
How Do Great Cities Die? So Slowly That Most People There Barely Notice
It's not usually after a disaster: in those cases, great cities tend to rebuild and often become grander. (Think of London and Chicago after...
Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn’t Playing Mike Nichols? It’s Not An Easy...
"Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not...
With Their Theatres Closed, The French Turn To Puppet Shows
Performances for kids in schools are the only ones allowed under current COVID restrictions, so puppet shows are the only live theatre happening in...
Intimacy Coordinator Says She Gets More Resistance From Female Actors And Directors
"'My hunch is that, for some women, having me present means they have to examine their past experiences on set without an intimacy coordinator,'...
‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be by Leonardo, But Its Hand May Not Be
Two different studies — one by the Louvre, the other by an independent art historian and her AI researcher husband — find that the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Has A New Director (And She’s An Alum)
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13...
Remember That Fake Gauguin The Getty Bought? They Were Warned
"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m...
Furloughed Staff To Waterstones: Please, At Least Pay Us Minimum Wage! Waterstones: That ‘Would...
Britain's relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee's salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers...
When Dancers Form COVID Bubbles
A look at how small groups of (properly tested and quarantined) dancers and choreographers got together (at long last!) to make work this past...
Build Back Better
At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time...
A “Unique Addition” to the Whitman Repertoire
When PostClassical Ensemble undertook our world premiere recording of the 1944 radio play Whitman, we did so believing that Bernard Herrmann's Whitman setting is...
Should Prime-Time TV Series Work In COVID Storylines? Or Is That The Last Thing...
"In rooms all over the internet, hospital dramas, first-responder shows, situation comedies and courtroom procedurals were having similar debates. To ignore the events...
Archaeologists Discover Stone And Bronze Age Burials At Site Of Stonehenge Tunnel
"Bronze age graves, Neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the...
How Did A Book Of New Poetry Get Passed Off As The Work Of...
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher — and hailed by many...
Could We Really Revive The Federal Theatre Project? How Would That Work In 2021?
The short answer is that it couldn't work the way it did in the 1930s: the legal and theatrical landscape then was too different....
