The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced a campaign Tuesday to raise $2.5 million to “save” the season set to begin later this month and said it was suspending its planning for 2024 as it seeks to stabilize its finances. - The Oregonian
"Merritt Moore … is walking, talking, dancing proof that you can build a career in both science and art. She has a PhD in quantum optics from the University of Oxford in the UK, and has also danced professionally with numerous world-class ballet companies." - Physics World
Using a technique known as data sonification, which translates information of practically any kind into soundwaves, W. Walker Smith crafted a new musical instrument from the translated sounds of every element on the periodic table. This acoustic view of chemistry allows for the creation of new kinds of music. - Syfy
"Shot in the deserts of Texas, the film takes (climate activist Andreas) Malm's call to action and builds it into a heist movie. … As with the ragtag group of radicals in their film, each (of the moviemakers) brought their expertise to pull off a job no one thought was possible." - Vulture
Editor Gemma Jones said the Fringe launched a “rival” review website with “an almost identical format and functionality as our ‘Tiser Fringe Adviser”, a decision she said undermined “our ability to find an audience” for similar content. - Crikey
"What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Andy Hunter's professional life. In its first few years of existence, Bookshop defied even its founder's expectations and demonstrated how helpful its model could be for small businesses." - Wired
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister past was exposed in 1994, (in connection with) the release of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles southeast of Kabul, is believed to contain the second largest untapped copper mine in the world. The deposits are estimated to be worth $100 billion." - ARTnews
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum, knocked the sculpture — Hirst's 2017 work Sphinx — off its pedestal, and plunged over the property's five-foot seawall. "Rich-on-rich crime, or revolutionary act of climate awareness activism?" - Hyperallergic
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR tell Nieman Lab how and why they're posting their podcasts to the video site. - Nieman Lab
"Dallas Theater Center will lay off an undisclosed number of staff, it announced Tuesday, a cost-cutting measure that comes as the organization has struggled to rebound from the pandemic and its chilling effect on attendance. The layoffs take effect in May." - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
"The funding (from Arts Council England) would support the ENO's 'reimagined artistic and business model' to have a primary base outside of the capital while allowing it to continue to 'own, manage and put on work at the London Coliseum'." - London Evening Standard
"The cuts, which were announced in March, would have reduced roles in the BBC Symphony, Concert and Philharmonic orchestras by 20%. On Thursday, the corporation said that while it needed to make savings, it was committed to working with the Musicians' Union to explore alternatives." - The Guardian
There is a difference between a theatre show and a concert. "It's a musical and you're there to hear the lyrics, hear the words, emotions, everything. - BBC
