"There’s more to it than fishnet tights, bowler hats and thrusting hips. Fosse's dance language — subtle and internal — is fueled not just by physicality but by the intention behind it. .... Gwen Verdon used to say it was like putting a car in neutral while flooring the gas." - The New York Times
Chiwoniso Kaitano is the former executive director of Girl Be Heard, a nongovernmental organization that uses theater and the performing arts to advocate for social change. Originally from Zimbabwe, she also serves on the boards of several arts organizations. - AP
"What does it cost a person if they are hateful, if they're driven by wealth? If they're racist or full of ugliness in their personal life? They shape their personality in self-diminishing ways. The human drama ... says: This society is ruining itself by letting people perpetuate these things." - The Guardian
“Effective immediately Netflix is to drop monthly subscription pricing in more than 100 territories globally,” but not in North America and Western Europe where average revenue per user is higher." - The Hollywood Reporter
"In his nearly two-decade long career, Arshad Mushtaq has directed the first-ever Kashmiri digital feature, produced television dramas, and written seven original plays along with five Kashmiri adaptations of foreign works" — one of which, Su Yee (his version of Godot), is the piece that first gained him wide attention. - Scroll (India)
As Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has shown, even if the movie isn’t a critical success, it can still make a hefty profit. Indeed, not only has a Winnie the Pooh sequel already been announced. - Fast Company
In "The New Vermeer," "two professional painters and dozens of amateur artists compete to reinvent the lost works of the 17th-century master. The results are judged by Vermeer experts from the Rijksmuseum ... and from the Mauritshuis, a collection of old masters in The Hague." - The New York Times
"What's interesting about this unneeded controversy is that I haven't so far seen anybody ... who thinks (bowdlerizing the books) is a good idea. Loudmouths on the right think it's 'woke cancel culture' nonsense, and loudmouths on the left think it smacks of literary censorship. So why has this happened?" - Slate
"The Classic Collection will 'sit alongside the newly released Puffin Roald Dahl books for young readers', the publisher said," referring to the controversial new editions, vetted by sensitivity readers, which remove such potentially offensive epithets as "fat" and "ugly." - The Guardian
"Artists' wishes can be ambiguous or ambivalent. And some observers believe that the value to posterity of certain material can in some cases supersede even clear wishes. As far as the criteria, though, most admit that it's more or less 'I know it when I hear it.'" - The New York Times
"The center, endowed by trustee Ira Brind, will be dedicated to the acquisition, care, and study of art of the continent and its diaspora. The Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art also will broaden PMA's curatorial lens and make the institution a more well-rounded hub." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"More than $3.7 million in state gaming tax revenue is flowing to 43 nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers, allowing them to compete with the state's casinos when booking touring artists and performances, the Mass Cultural Council announced Tuesday." - WBUR (Boston)
"Called an effort to 'protect' the integrity of Kentucky's public television broadcaster, a bill passed unanimously (in) a Senate committee Wednesday that would disband the current board for Kentucky Educational Television and require future appointments by the governor to the board be confirmed by the Republican-controlled state Senate." - Kentucky Lantern
In recent years, the number of employers offering sabbaticals has grown exponentially. In addition, many more workers, especially employees in managerial and professional roles, are taking their own unpaid sabbaticals when their organizations fail to offer them. - Harvard Business Review
Kharkiv theatres closed at the start of the war; by the summer, the city’s famous puppet theatre performed a show about wartime in Bucha. Lapa has been hosting these performances at her house for the past three months. - The New Yorker
