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Dallas Opera Launches Its Own Streaming Channel
“We view it as a second stage,” said Ian Derrer, the Dallas Opera’s general director and CEO. “And it has accessible on-ramps for many...
Maureen Dowd: Has Hollywood Lost Its Inspiration?
As a Hollywood writer friend of mine said after she watched “Nomadland”: “That was not entertainment. That was Frances McDormand having explosive diarrhea in...
“Not The Civil Service”: Cameron Mackintosh Defends Cutting “Phantom” Orchestra In Half
"I've had a terrible year trying to keep on as many people as I can, but our job is to try to put a...
Are We Polarized Or Suffering From Propaganda?
"Systemic polarization, as it is usually told, is a basically symmetrical story. Polarization arises from a social dynamic that afflicts almost everybody. The social...
Scalpers Have Been Buying Up UK Festival Tickets And Massively Hiking Prices
A Guardian investigation found that dozens of professional touts have snapped up tickets for eagerly awaited festivals and are demanding massively inflated prices from...
I was A “Minority Intern” In The 1990s. We Need To Talk About These...
"Without long insights into the early diversity programs, our profession cannot address the structural inequities that perpetuate the need for entry-level opportunities targeted for...
China Censors News Of Chloé Zhao’s Best Director Oscar Win
The Chinese government imposed a virtual news blackout, and censors moved to tamp down or scrub out discussion of the award on social media....
How Your Movie Theatre Experience Will Likely Change
To survive beyond the pandemic, theaters must persuade moviegoers not just to come back, but to come back more frequently than they did—to start...
New California Bill Could Save LA’s 99-Seat Theatres
Enter SB 805, which is up for a hearing by the California Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 26. If passed,...
Choreographer Creates Company To Copyright Dance Moves
The JaQuel Knight's company Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will see to the rights to Knights dance moves while operating as a music publisher...
How TikTok Has Made “Vibe” A Multimedia Haiku
What a haiku is to language, a vibe is to sensory perception: a concise assemblage of image, sound, and movement. (#Aesthetic is sometimes used...
Opera Super-Fan Leaves Behind 200,000 Autographs
Lois Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who became perhaps New York’s biggest and longest-standing opera buff — and an obsessive autograph...
American TV Watchers Flee Cable
Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all...
The Fitness Trap
Part of what seems awry with contemporary fitness culture is its artifice, symptomatic of the wrongness of modernity, prior to which, one imagines, real...
Arts Venues Hoping For Some Of That $16 Billion COVID Relief Hit Glitch
The Small Business Administration oversees the $16 billion portion that will offer grants to concert halls, theaters and museums. But soon after the process...
How Choirs Have Figured Out To Sing Together Again
“It was amazing to be able to sing with my friends again,” said Ian Bass, a seventh grader in the Ragazzi Boys Chorus, a...
David Byrne’s Socially-Distanced Theatrics
"Each of the attendees submits a screening form in advance and undergoes a COVID rapid test on-site, in an ivory-walled corridor that suggests a...
A Psychologist Talks About How Art Changes Us
"For me, as a psychologist with a special interest and expertise in the arts, our fascination with art raises two long-standing and fundamental questions,...
Jazz Musicians Remember Chick Corea
He left behind "thousands of audio and video recordings; the countless notes scrawled on countless piles of music manuscript paper; and, of course, the...
Paul Schrader: The End Of The Movie Feature As We Knew It?
"The two-hour format which was so ideally suited to theatrical, we’ve now trained young people for fifteen months not to see that as a...
Researchers Use AI To Analyze Dead Sea Scrolls
For their study, the researches utilized artificial intelligence technology to examine the writing on the scrolls, comparing the look of certain letters and analyzing...
In Defense Of The Art Of Broadway
"If you live and die at the box office, as does Broadway, you are not rewarded for indulgence or self-involvement. More importantly, you often...
Ten Trends In Architecture To Combat Climate Change
From reducing waste and maximising urban greenery to collaboration and lobbying for change, solutions to reduce pressure on the planet are now taking centre...
I Miss Chitchat
In our pandemic world, casual conversation has been all but eliminated. The closest thing I get these days is saying “thank you” to a...
How Those Algorithms Manipulate Your Behavior
University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein popularized the term “nudge” in 2008, but due to recent advances...