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Sunday, January 31, 2021

Executive Director by Artsjournal

Asheville Symphony seeks next Executive Director

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Stage Union Volunteers To Help Theatres Be Vaccination Sites by Artsjournal

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 technique." …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]
Monday, January 18, 2021

What's To Become Of The Trump Impersonators? by Artsjournal

"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

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UK Courts Are Leasing Theatres For Courtrooms " Artists Are Objecting by Artsjournal

Three 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. Sin…

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Friday, January 15, 2021

Unlocking The Technology Of Relationships by Artsjournal

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…

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Lessons From 40 Years Performing Online by Artsjournal

"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 func…

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

How Equitable Pay Leads To Better Theatre by Artsjournal

"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 benefi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

When Theatre Comes Back To Stages It Will Be Different. But That's OK by Artsjournal

"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 ma…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM[SHARE]

Progress Report: BIPOC Representation In American Theatre by Artsjournal

"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 very le…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]
Monday, January 4, 2021

The TikTok Musical That's Already Earned $1 Million by Artsjournal

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 a w…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PM[SHARE]
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Hollywood Owes A Lot To Theatre. Should It Find Ways To Give Back? by Artsjournal

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 " it bea…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PM[SHARE]
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Broadway Fans Are Creating Entire Musicals On TikTok by Artsjournal

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 whipped …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Why Was Longtime Oregon Children's Theatre Director Suddenly Fired? by Artsjournal

"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 years as a …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]
Monday, December 21, 2020

Out Of This Year's Wreckage: A New Model For Theatre? by Artsjournal

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, arose …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PM[SHARE]
Friday, December 18, 2020

Theatre That Steps Outside The Theatre by Artsjournal

"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 to…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]
Thursday, December 17, 2020

By The Numbers: What Theatre Looked Like In 2019 by Artsjournal

"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 producti…

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Consolidation: Major Broadway Theatrical Licensing Agency Is Sold To Competitor by Artsjournal

In 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 brought…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Thirteen Ways Of Thinking About A Play by Artsjournal

"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. You…

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The Makings Of A New Theatre Podcast Empire? by Artsjournal

"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 reco…

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

What Theatre Learned About Being Online This Year by Artsjournal

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 filmed …

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A 2020 Best Theatre List Requires Expanding Your Mind by Artsjournal

Peter 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 beyon…

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Many London West End Theatres Re-Open by Artsjournal

This week, 42 performances of 12 different shows will be staged. " The Stage

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Monday, December 7, 2020

How The Shutdown Virtual World Has Leveled Creativity by Artsjournal

"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 block…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:14PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

How UK Theatres Are Changing During COVID by Artsjournal

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

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

London's National Theatre Launches New Theatre Streaming Service by Artsjournal

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 the …

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Cirque du Soleil Sells Itself To Creditors by Artsjournal

As 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 boar…

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Monday, November 30, 2020

Broadway's Spiderman Disaster, Ten Years Later by Artsjournal

"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 with,…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Theatres Are Becoming Media Companies by Artsjournal

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 digit…

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Produce Theatre? In A Pandemic? In Finland? Of Course " It's "Essential" by Artsjournal

"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 big …

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Michael Riedel's Broadway History by Artsjournal

Reading 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…

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Broadway Actors Are Losing Their Health Care by Artsjournal

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[SHARE]

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