The ramifications of this contracted environment have varied. Teams are making do with less by reducing the number of episodes they produce or by employing a smaller team. Companies laid staff off over the past 18 months (or shut down entirely). - Bloomberg
I think that we have adjusted some of our programmatic models. You know, some of the data had been showing us that post-pandemic audiences have been really attracted to going to shows that are recognizable, that they know, that are the classics. - Oregon Public Broadcasting
Susan Jaffe has some ideas, some plans, and some hopes. But “the challenges facing Ballet Theater, which begins its summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House this month, are daunting. Costs are rising, donations have declined and audience habits are rapidly shifting." - The New York Times
And for worse. “The world of the McKittrick, we believed (or let ourselves pretend to believe), was an enchanted one; not just by the witches who herald Macbeth’s downfall, but by a stranger and more widely suffused magic.” - Slate
“The suit claims that UArts failed to follow the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to give them at least a 60-day notice of a planned closure or mass layoff.” - Hyperallergic
Donoghue doesn’t know why one story “about a risk-loving boy thief and the scary/seductive witch whose island he repeatedly sneaks on to” gripper her. But she remembers “the implicit lesson I learned from my mother: give those you love what they crave.” - The Guardian (UK)
Bing Chen’s Gold House “operates behind the scenes of a dizzying array of projects. The team’s consulting work for film and TV includes cultural research, script and casting review, facilitating product partnerships and helping with marketing and public relations” on everything from Turning Red to The Sympathizer. - Los Angeles Times
The true game-changer was 2020’s The Last of Us, Part 2. The makers "decided to do a lot of experimenting and consulting with gamers with disabilities. They eventually added more than 60 different accessibility options to the game.” - NPR
“His passion for the music was stronger than his patience for taking directions — and when he found out that some of his U.S. jazz heroes were having trouble getting signed back home, he started cutting deals himself.” Then things spiraled upward, for him and the musicians. - The New York Times
Yes, it’s protest art: “Installed by Americans for Contraception (AFC), a campaign advocating for contraceptive access across the country, the lavender IUD is set to pop up in various states where birth control access is most at risk.” - Hyperallergic
“In an industry shaped over the decades by bombastic and hard-charging men, Drescher embraced her idiosyncratic and unabashedly female style. She offered spiritual teachings and brought a Jellycat plush toy to the negotiating table.” And she won. - Los Angeles Times
“Hollywood is trying to bring sexiness, if not always actual sex, back to the big screen, at a time of superhero fatigue, years of relative sexlessness on screen and routine box office woe.” - The Guardian (UK)
“It’s not just that the ad is a car crash — it’s that the people who poured so much work and money into something so off-putting appear to have thought they were orchestrating a parade.” - The New York Times
