We have to collect the stories and inspire people, rather than fighting hipsters and fighting people who are gentrifiers—people don’t really understand how gentrification works. It’s not about white people coming in; Latinos can gentrify too. - American Theatre
"For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals — all these things have more in common with candle-making and knitting than they do with creating art in the romantic, visionary sense." - The New Yorker
“Disability theatre is not all cute little community projects. I know that sounds like I’m dissing community projects, but that’s not what I mean … We exist, too. We can be professionals. We can be just as much angels or devils as everyone else. We can have the same kinks or non-kinks as everyone else.” - The Guardian
Neumeier's adaptation includes a dream sequence which takes the Venetians' stereotypes of Othello to their limit, with the Moorish general doing an "African hunting dance." A number of the Copenhagen dancers found that offensive; subsequent disputes seem to have led to Neumeier's banning from the company. (in German) - NDR (Hamburg)
Our base salary is some $70 per hour, as opposed to other parts of the university, where the average is about $130 an hour. Somebody might say, “$130, that’s incredible!” But this includes hundreds of hours of preparation, grading, and writing recommendations. - Van
D. H. Lawrence's novel had been banned in Britain since it was first printed privately in 1928, but in 1960, Penguin UK published the first uncensored edition — and was promptly prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959. Perhaps no other trial in modern British history had such impact. - Esquire
Her theory: "It's because I'm a Black woman." But there's more than that: her plays are more avant-garde than those of Lynn Nottage or Katori Hall, let alone Lorraine Hansberry or Anna Deavere Smith. Better to ask how the mainstream finally found Kennedy. - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
Many of the wealthy individual donors whose regular gifts have kept the region's institutions running are passing away, and their heirs may not have similar priorities. As elsewhere, many corporations are shifting their philanthropy from the arts to health and social justice. What happens now? - Boston Magazine
A series of surveys and workshops has evidently found a consensus that "the big, 700-ish seat theater is kind of the least needed thing" and that adaptive reuse of existing facilities makes far more sense. - Boulder Beat
Comparing their campaign to that of the suffragettes — one of whom attacked a Velázquez at London's National Gallery with a meat cleaver in 1914 — Just Stop Oil spokesperson Alex De Koning said, "If that's unfortunately what it needs to come to, then that's unfortunately what it needs to come to." - Artnet
When conductor Philippe Jordan steps down from the job in 2025, it will be eliminated, announced superintendent Bogdan Roščić. "Historically, the State Opera has been without a music director for much longer than with one," he said. "Both models can have major advantages and disadvantages." - OperaWire
"Though she had an impressive body of work," — most notably, lead roles in the sitcoms Cheers and Veronica's Closet and in the surprise hit movie Look Who's Talking and its sequels — "the later part of her career was marked by Alley's penchant for stirring controversy, especially through social media." - CNN
Our research has revealed that virtual music theatre — music theatre online — allows for a more accessible and a less exclusive way to engage with this art form with many benefits for participants. - The Conversation
Art’s primary task, Perl asserts, is not to “promote a particular idea of ideology, or perform some clearly defined civic or community service.” Art is meaningful, valuable, and exciting precisely because of its irrelevance to our most immediate, surface-level concerns. - Commonweal
