Sunday, January 31, 2021
Those who have seen One Night in Miami will appreciate that the actor, singer, and star of Hamilton made a different choice, especially with his movie-closing performance of “A Change Is G…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMLee, the son of immigrants from China, “was determined both to restore the contributions of Asian-Americans to the historical record and to document their present-day lives and struggles, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe Broadway League and the American Theater Wing: “One, the much-delayed awards will be scheduled ‘in coordination with the reopening of Broadway.’ And two, the voting will take place…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMYou won’t find them on the usual streaming suspects. – The Verge
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe SETI Institute is ready to take music to Mars, or wherever. While it’s a listening project, it’s also now a beaming project. A founding astrophysicist and a musician “have devised …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMBernadine Evaristo, author of 2019’s Booker prizewinning Girl, Woman, Other, is launching, or relaunching, a series of Black British novels that didn’t quite make it into the British can…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWesley Morris: “Alas, she would not be playing the most daring, out-there characters. And let’s face it: the great parts were always headed to someone whiter anyway. The more audacious m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThat’s merely one thing that’s missing right now, of course, but it is missing, and Dublin isn’t going to let people forget the joys of moving their bodies alongside so many others at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWriter, studio musician at Sugar Hill Records, and singer, Bootee couldn’t take the upbeat party aims of early hip-hop. So he wrote “The Message” about the serious, gritty life of his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAnd now there’s a tug of war about the future of the internet – and the future of any kind of privacy. – Wired
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMMark Swed thinks so: Bernstein “devoted four years to the musical. He wrote more music for it than for any other theater work. The show had a $900,000 sponsorship from Coca-Cola. It was bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMA $2 million donation means that musicians and staff have salaries and health care through June, despite the fact that there’s no revenue coming in from concerts. – Nine News (Denver)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMPenman’s best-selling, lengthy books about medieval England and Wales were stuffed with research – and drama. But “such was her commitment to the factual record that she kept a running…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe word for pandemic is absolutely Greek, but nearly everything else the Greeks discuss about COVID-19 is English – and a leading linguist is worried. “Far too many [English terms] are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMShe died in what her team said was a “terrible accident” in Athens while celebrating the full moon. “SOPHIE was a trailblazer in almost every respect. The Scottish-born, L.A.-based pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMBrian Lin: “At the start of the pandemic, I emailed friends, colleagues, and mentors, all POC, to ask two questions about their literary lives. What is a recurring situation that’s desta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWhen Nawapan Kriangsak inherited the priceless art collection of her father, scholar and collector Douglas Latchford, she already had a plan in motion to return his art to Cambodia, from whe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMMary-Kay Wilmers was one of LRB‘s co-founders in 1979, and after co-editing it since 1988 became sole editor in 1992. Two women will take over: “Wilmers will continue at the paper as con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWhy did Jujamcyn switch from Ticketmaster to SeatGeek (more commonly a sports ticket app in the U.S.)? For one thing, SeatGeek is very commonly a contactless system, which now seems possible…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMCohan founded an outpost of Martha Graham’s school in London in 1966, and, a couple of years later, The Place. That venture (including the London Contemporary Dance Group) “initially per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSunday, January 24, 2021
A survey of frequent theatregoers says that widespread vaccines are the only way most people will feel comfortable in the theatre – and, even with that, 94 percent of those surveyed said t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMSunday, January 17, 2021
Yes, it’s partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it’s so much more: “Averno [is] the settin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMMonday, January 11, 2021
The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don’t have anything to fall back on. “In telephone interviews this week, four theater …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AMSunday, January 10, 2021
Swinging the Dream, a 1939 musical that flopped after 13 performances despite (or because of?) having a cast of 150 and three bands. It’s being revived, rewritten, and live-streamed during…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PMHe said that “the timeline hinged on the country reaching an effective level of herd immunity, which he defined as vaccinating from 70 percent to 85 percent of the population.” In additi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMMonday, January 4, 2021
The teen actors couldn’t perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn’t film because their school went virtual partway through the term. So voice recording and mixing, origin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMHurray for the Save Our Stages money, but theatres need a lot more: “a new Federal Theatre Project (FTP), like the Depression-era government agency that directly employed artists to produc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMSunday, January 3, 2021
As with every other kind of theatre, Jewish theaters and playwrights, actors and tech people, had a lot to figure out. The Jewish Playwriting Contest completely reimagined what it was asking…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMMonday, December 28, 2020
“Needless to say, 2020 didn’t exactly go as planned.” But actors, directors, playwrights, sound producers, lighting designers, and stage directors came through just as much as they pos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AMSunday, December 27, 2020
This isn’t exactly a normal year for any playwright, and indeed, Jeremy O. Harris of the multiple-Tony-nominated Slave Play has earned little from his plays. But fashion collaborations and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PMWell … yes, it’s mostly he/him types. But also, 2020 was a real career killer. “Most designers, just like most artists in the field, have no work right now. They are hanging on by thei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM 
