For the second year running, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is the country's most-produced play, and in fifth place is Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. - The New York Times
"Reversing the slide will require a whole suite of changes to incentivize studios to return to California. … Some labor leaders tell TheWrap that to reverse the production exodus, California may need to triple the size of its (tax incentive) program and expand the types of productions that can apply." - TheWrap (MSN)
The owners of this 1623 portrait want to sell it abroad, where it can command a much higher price than in Spain. On the chance that it's a Velázquez — the attribution is considered questionable — authorities have prohibited its export. Spain's Supreme Court is now considering the case. - El País (Spain) (in English)
Refik Anadol, a leader in the development of AI-generated artwork, will place his museum, to be called Dataland, in the Frank Gehry-designed Grand L.A. development — right across Grand Avenue from Gehry's landmark Walt Disney Concert Hall. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
The case, Little v. Llano County, involves local citizens who sued a Texas county on First Amendment grounds for ordering certain titles removed from public libraries shelves. County officials argue that decisions about public library books count as speech by government itself, and thus aren't required to be content-neutral. - Publishers Weekly
Last fall, David Hayes stepped in as conductor on 48 hours' notice when then-music director Dirk Brossé ran into visa trouble. So the orchestra asked Hayes (who knows it and the city well) to succeed Brossé at the helm. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in California and known for directing the Broadway hit Come From Away, will succeed longtime Roundabout chief Todd Haimes, who died last year. - Variety
The Stephen King adaptation hit cinemas in the fall of 1994 amid a slew of hits competing for audiences. Yet it went on to become the most popular video rental of 1995. Love for the film hasn't waned; one poll found it the best movie never to have won an Oscar. - BBC
Cash, whose statue is located in the Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, is the first musician to be represented in the collection. - Washington Post
Overall, the average ticket price for the top 100 tours around the world was £101 last year, up from £82 in 2022, according to Pollstar, a trade publication that tracks the concert industry. - BBC
"Scholars have long suggested that Marlowe had a collaborator for the comic scenes of his classic play, although his name alone is on the 1604 published edition. Now a largely forgotten dramatist, Henry Porter, has emerged as the likely co-author, based on comparative linguistic evidence ... from his surviving play." - The Guardian
Companies have been accused of signing people up for subscriptions without their consent, renewing their subscriptions without notice, and imposing a gantlet of obstacles to anyone seeking to unsubscribe. - Los Angeles Times
Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years... And the number of adult ballet summer intensive programs have nearly doubled since the pandemic, according to the weekly online ballet-centric magazine Pointe. - Los Angeles Times
The resurrection of dead franchises and the creation of new ones based on recognizable intellectual properties all target one core emotion: nostalgia. Hollywood is not facing a lack of ideas; rather, it's facing a nostalgia epidemic. - Highbrow Magazine
First to get the idea was conductor Alan Pierson, a friend of Greenwell's since music-student days at Eastman. Pierson sent the book, What Belongs to You, to composer David T. Little, then they got tenor Karim Sulayman to star and choreographer Mark Morris to direct. - The New York Times
