Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Theatres have collectively reported losses of nearly £200 million following a year of closure, according to a survey which also reveals that a quarter of freelancers have gone out of busine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:28PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Ridiculous as it might seem now, eight to 10 weeks was initially discussed as a likely closure period. The more pessimistic were talking about the summer of 2020. – The Stage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
The UK’s theatrical culture is obsessed with the idea of theatre as storytelling, both as a discourse and as a conditioning of what the work is and should be like. This is extremely rigid:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:29PM“We are incentivizing each one of our employees with a payment of $200 to get vaccinated,” Chad Bauman said. “We believe it’s incredibly important not only in terms of protecting our…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
“What it has taken me a year to realize is how much I also miss the community of the audience — the strangers surrounding me, obscured by the dark, who have tacitly agreed to escape and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31PMMonday, March 8, 2021
Level Forward, a company whose founders include Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, said on Monday that it has won the rights to adapt Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel, which has become …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PMOver the last year, American Shakespeare Center—a $4.3 million theatre company in Staunton, Va., known for producing the Bard’s work in repertory with a stripped-down style and a residen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:44AMThursday, March 4, 2021
Presented as a “walking tour with theatrical displays,” and running Feb. 19-21, the performance was not a traditional narrative play, but rather a collection of six short individual vign…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PMWednesday, March 3, 2021
“There are so many benefits to all this stuff, It’s going to make theatre more accessible. It’s going to help tackle the issue of diversity. It’s going to enable us to tell stories i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM“This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, ‘Hello, this is an opportunity to just stop. Everybody just stop. Can we really not do tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PMTuesday, March 2, 2021
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread of COVID variants, and that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PMThe protocols these countries have developed the past year to permit some live performances depend greatly on the magnitude of the pandemic and the efforts by government to contain it. South…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
“I’ve debated different scenarios in my life about “What is Native?” And that is like the million-dollar question, at least within Indigenous communities at this moment. There doesn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
“True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as simple as that. For there are not only ‘brute facts’ (eg whether Ge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMThe images shared by the ballet company had soccer fans’ heads turning when they emerged. Such a sports star dabbling in ballet may have seemed unheard of, but it wasn’t a new trend. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMMonday, February 22, 2021
When the Australia Council announced its latest four-year funding winners in 2020, Restless was a shock omission, as were La Mama Theatre in Melbourne and The Blue Room in Western Australia.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMAnthony Lane: “Many folk, less deserving than Stoppard, and with scarcely a whit of his charm, are greeted with godsends. What marks him out is the unusual thoroughness with which he has p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMDuring the pandemic, Darrah’s affinity for film allowed him to pivot to digital content with ease. Over the last six months, the director has worked with LA Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Orch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMSomewhere, in an attic or a music library or maybe hiding in plain sight, are pieces by non-white-male composers that, with the right kind of attention, will open our ears to genius. – Phi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMTo Musa Mayer’s dismay, her father, an antiracist and the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitic persecution, was now having his complex images misrepresented and their subject matter …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM“From the first-person stance, you navigate the world as an agent trying to realise your projects and satisfy your desires. From the second-person perspective, you understand yourself and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMAs we are now experiencing in new ways with COVID-19, we cannot have a just arts sector within an unjust world. And moreover, we do have the means and the agency to make change, not just for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMThe pandemic has wrecked an already vulnerable jazz industry by forcing live music shows to halt. Musicians and club owners have turned to online fundraisers for survival, and point to the m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMAnother way the pandemic has had an impact on the economy is by making people bored. By limiting social engagements, leisure activities and travel, the pandemic has forced many people to liv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSunday, February 21, 2021
“Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus nonviolent games were too …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMMore than a year after it began its search for a new president and chief executive, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce on Thursday that it has found a new leader on the op…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM“When young children make art together with their caregivers, they share a new experience which can reinforce bonding. Creativity is an extension of babies’ natural desire to share and c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM“A functioning market required transparency, a mutual understanding of exchanges and a shared moral framework. And, as Rana Foroohar puts it in this brief animation for the Royal Society o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMMPs at the digital, culture, media and sport committee hearing told DCMS minister Caroline Dinenage that her department was treated as an “afterthought” by the government, and that durin…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMThe initiative combines entertainment metadata with Nielsen’s audience measurement data. It’s designed to equip content creators, owners, distributors and advertisers with data around on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM 
