Some have taken up arms in their country’s defense or have been working to get medical supplies to the frontline. (One died after being injured when Russian shells hit Kyiv.) And many have fled the country, fanning out across Europe — both for safety and to keep dancing. - The New York Times
On March 1, Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in the Jackson suburbs, found himself having to sub at a virtual reading, and he figured seven-year-olds would get a kick out of the widely-available cartoon book. They did, but culture-warrior adults did not. - MSN (The Washington Post)
CRB’s recent listener data suggests that a growing share of younger listeners are responding to that sense of discovery. In February 2014 the median age of CRB listeners was 74; as of this past February, it was 54, with 24 percent of listeners under age 35. - Boston Globe
Prompted by, among others, Diane Keating reading from Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem and Julie Harris reading Stuart Little (after which E.B. White recorded all his books himself), Mimi Kramer pinpoints the problem and its causes. - Vulture
Even with understudies and swing performers, The Rep had to cancel 15 out of 49 total shows due to the quantity of cases and people involved. That’s about a third of the total run. - Milwaukee Magazine
A review, commissioned by the British branch of Actors' Equity, of 111 academic studies performed over 20 years found (among other conclusions) that, in addition to the depression figures, performers are from four to ten times (depending on the particular genre) as likely as regular folks to suffer anxiety. - The Guardian
The lack of support manifests in a dearth of affordable studio space, limited funding and fewer platforms for emerging artists to perform. It’s an about-face for a city that has nurtured Western dance traditions for more than 100 years. - Crosscut
"(They are a) miracle that brings in throngs, as many as 3,000 or maybe more, of people out on a Saturday night" — in Miami Beach, no less — "to sit on aluminum chairs or picnic blankets and listen to music that is centuries old." - MSN (The Miami Herald)
As one director of a presenting venue puts it, "It's like, we're driving straight up (to) the cliff ... but we're swerving and bumping and jogging, and there's still a cliff there. We know it's coming, but we have no idea when we're gonna get there." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
So far, of 56 US institutions surveyed, 16 museums are in the process of returning Benin Court artworks, and five more would do so if requested. Added to similar efforts in other countries, there are now more repatriation requests than Nigerian officials can promptly process. - MSN (The Washington Post)
Maria Alyokhina had been under house arrest for months, but when, in April, Putin announced that she was to be sent back to a penal colony, she improvised an escape that involved a disguise as a food delivery worker, crossing Belarus incognito, and smuggled travel documents. - The New York Times
UNESCO's confirmed count stands at 127, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the number is nearly 200. Much of that destruction was clearly deliberate; "Targeted attacks on museums" said Zelensky, "this wouldn't cross even a terrorist's mind. But this is the army that's waging war on us." - Artnet
Attendance and revenue at movie theaters in the EU and UK are up from 2020 and 2021, yes, but they're still well below half of what they were before the pandemic. - The Hollywood Reporter
Just a day after incredulity and scorn over £400 ticket prices (double those of Hamilton) hit social media and then news outlets, seats in the stalls are now listed at £175 ($216), with seats that had been £350 ($432) and £300 ($371) now £150 ($185) and £125 ($154). - The Guardian
This is not a radical rethinking of copyright. It is regression as a meme, a fart in the wind, an empty and cynical gesture meant for a future fundraising email. All because Disney is the latest punching bag for a Republican party. - The Verge
