Sunday, January 31, 2021
Asheville Symphony seeks next Executive Director
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Jonas Loeb, communications director of IATSE, says this time around turning music venues into a vaccination center would require a new configuration. “It doesn’t use any unusual techniqu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMMonday, January 18, 2021
“No one is going to want to see my Donald Trump” now. Anyone who is seeking Trump comedy after Jan. 21, I just feel bad for them.” – Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PMThree national lockdowns in Britain, as well as tough social distancing guidelines, have hampered the business of England’s court system this past year, creating a huge backlog of cases. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PMFriday, January 15, 2021
What does it look like when a small-scale, long-term community effort in Detroit is connected to a small-scale, long-term community effort in Seattle or Dallas? What is there to learn and ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PM“Everything about the experience of using a computer is still flat, everything uses these windows, but then we also have high-speed processes that allow for these windows to actually be fu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PMThursday, January 7, 2021
“Since pay equity leads to higher quality work, any company interested in having the best product to share with their community will center pay equity within their company because the bene…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
“While there have been times during the past year when theatre and all who work in it have felt helpless, unloved and ignored, there is also plenty of evidence that it does matter and can …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM“Time will tell if theater grantmakers adopt the coalition’s demands en masse, and some of the demands have yet to make it into grantmakers’ toolboxes in a meaningful way. But at the v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMMonday, January 4, 2021
At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner, this “Ratatouille” is a mere appetizer. But with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PMThursday, December 31, 2020
If Hollywood is going to continue reaping the creative benefits of the theater — the actors’ training, the ambitious storytelling, the characters fleshed out over countless rewrites — …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PMThursday, December 24, 2020
Just three months after she posted it, TikTokers had conjured up an entire “Ratatouille” musical universe. A composer spiced up her song with Disney-fied orchestrations. Songwriters whip…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
“The departure of McKeen, one of the city’s most prominent arts leaders, comes as something of a shock. He’d been OCT’s managing director since 2008. Before that he spent several yea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PMMonday, December 21, 2020
Charles McNulty: “Even before the pandemic, the theater’s economic model was broken. Our resident theaters, the nonprofit companies that constitute the art form’s national foundation, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PMFriday, December 18, 2020
“We are all here because we believe in the power of theatre, right? We think it has the power to change minds, to catalyze conversations, to shift narratives. But we most often limit that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PMThursday, December 17, 2020
“A bright spot in the report indicates that the U.S. professional not-for-profit theatre field attracted an estimate of 38 million audience members to 180,000 performances of 21,000 produc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PMIn the letter, Dramatists Play Service says that the move was partly inspired by the challenges facing the theater business posed by coronavirus. It’s a public health crisis that has broug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
“Sometimes you have to set it in the sun a while, and water it, and weed around it. Tend to it. And as it becomes itself you’ll begin to understand the shape it was always meant to take.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM“We launched in October, 2019 with 15 podcasts. And here we are, a little over a year later, with almost 100 podcasts. Since the beginning it was very much the plan to have podcasts and re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMThursday, December 10, 2020
The Broadway productions of “Hamilton” and “What the Constitution Means to Me” reemerged as films that give a wider audience the best seats in the house. These are stage performances…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PMPeter Marks: “Putting the most positive spin I can muster on the stricken field I cover — identifying the best of what has transpired in the worst of theatrical times — requires a look…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
This week, 42 performances of 12 different shows will be staged. – The Stage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PMMonday, December 7, 2020
“What has happened, then, during this time without physical training spaces for artists? In the long months that have passed since isolation began, we have had to overcome the creative blo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:14PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
Theatres that normally function as places of gathering, storytelling and entertainment have found themselves playing a very different role in the age of coronavirus. – The Stage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
There will be two strands to the service: productions from National Theatre Live that were broadcast to cinemas; and a selection of plays from the NT’s archive being released online for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PMAs part of the transaction, former MGM Resorts International chief executive Jim Murren and Catalyst Capital managing director Gabriel de Alba were named as co-chairmen of the company’s bo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMMonday, November 30, 2020
“You had Spider-Man dangling seven feet above the first two rows. It was the worst possible position because no one could reach him. One of the crew members fetched a stick to prod him wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PMWednesday, November 25, 2020
As the theater’s biggest commercial motor, Broadway, has languished, resourceful artists and producers are making work that incorporates video, gaming and interactivity into hybridized dig…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PMWednesday, November 18, 2020
“I shouldn’t have been so surprised. Art has played a major role in bringing this once poor and isolated country into the international arena, and the government subsidizes culture in a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PMReading Michael Riedel has long been mandatory for theater insiders. They may complain about his journalistic practices, his tendency to sensationalize and distort, his refusal to let a fair…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AMTuesday, November 17, 2020
This year, the number of work weeks has plummeted by 65 percent to about 92,000 — including nearly three months of normal work before the shutdown. The lack of work weeks is pushing some…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM 
