"Almost" because the Pillow's second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won't be complete until 2024. But the flagship Ted Shawn Theatre's renovation is just about finished, and it will host ten weeks of performances for the festival's 90th season. - Dance Magazine
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept going what Stewart left behind (and is overseeing a major building renovation), her leadership style is "polar opposite." - The New York Times
"Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts' ability to drive viewers to creators' long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments in Shorts. Â ... (Thus) seems to be an admission that YouTube still sees more value in its longer-form content." - TechCrunch
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio competition. ... Ironically, part of the answer may lie in letting All Things Considered be free from the mantle of considering all things." - Current
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy. (The board last declared bankruptcy in 2003, and the orchestra has struggled financially ever since resuming operations in 2004-05.) - Texas Public Radio
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with a revival of their hit adaptation of Alice's Adventures Underground (Lewis Carroll’s manuscript title for Alice in Wonderland). - WhatsOnStage (UK)
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum trustees as well, was open to the possibility of an agreement with Greece — but only if the country was willing to compromise in some way." - ARTnews
Voice disorders carry a stigma among performing artists. This has made performers hesitate to seek proper and timely medical help. - The Conversation
Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life, Brand’s salesmanship has been so outstanding that scholars of the American 20th century have secured his place as a historical figure. - The Nation
The violin, made in 1714 by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari, belonged to virtuoso Toscha Seidel, who not only used it on the score for the 1939 "Wizard of Oz" Hollywood classic, but also no doubt while teaching his famous student Albert Einstein. - Yahoo!
Like any artist, Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. Whether she sought them or not, though, she has both. - The New Yorker
The quest for purity informs cancel culture. It pushes partisans to ever-greater extremes, even when those positions are politically self-defeating. It turns historical heroes /into villains and closes nuclear power plants in the face of climate change. - Virginia Postrel
That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who'll each spend $100 annually to support your work, that's a good middle-class living. That didn't work out in the '90s or '00s, but might it be possible now? - The New Yorker
Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. There are sprawling franchises. There are reboots, dark and gritty or comic and winking, of properties that have barely had time to recede into nostalgia. - The New Yorker
