Saturday, March 11, 2023
Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMMonday, February 6, 2023
With ticket sales way down and government relief mostly at an end, business as usual is not an option for nonprofit performing arts groups.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMSunday, January 22, 2023
The Grant Avenue Follies are steeped in tap dance and the songs of the 1950s and '60s. But they are no strangers to hip-hop, as the track "That Lunar Cheer" shows.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMSaturday, January 7, 2023
The internationally-renowned show exploring the percussive possibilities of the human body and everyday objects ends Jan. 8.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMThursday, October 27, 2022
NPR broke the news about artistic director Nataki Garrett hiring a private security detail for her personal safety.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:19PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps 'Anthony and Cleopatra' from flying off the rails.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:07PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Since the 1970s, the UK's punk, alternative and hip-hop artists have used music to share their feelings about the late monarch and what she represents.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:33AMThursday, May 6, 2021
A new mask for singers has been developed and tested by the San Francisco Opera in collaboration with medics and researchers. The company is testing it in rehearsals for its first post-pande…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:03PMSunday, May 17, 2020
Theaters across the country have commissioned playwrights to create short plays that anyone can download and perform at home or online with friends and family. The initiative is called Play …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36PMMonday, December 23, 2019
After 45 years, a staple of kitsch in San Francisco is closing. The show Beach Blanket Babylon ends Dec. 31.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:06AMMonday, May 25, 2015
SF Playhouse is a small, young company in downtown San Francisco, with big ambitions and a good start on achieving them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Reading about the British Government's poetry recitation initiative for school children, Poetry By Heart, in The Guardian over the past few days brings to mind another recent attem…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:54PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
I hate iTunes. It's official.Organizing my digital music collection has always been tricky. Many of the recordings I own aren't commercially available so the data often fails to correspond t…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:00PMMonday, January 7, 2013
It's no surprise that Mario Testino's photographs, some of the most iconic of which are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are attracting thundering hoards.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:33AMThursday, December 27, 2012
People in this country can't get enough of old world traditions at this time of year.Events like The Bracebridge Dinner, a high-end yuletide feast based on Olde Englishe customs which takes …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:12AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
One fascinating outlet for the analysis of visual art in today's pop culture landscape is Ink Master. I caught an episode of the reality television series, which puts professional tatt…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:49AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
Blue Heron is a high-endy early music-oriented vocal ensemble based in Boston whose members have sung with the likes of Sequentia and Chanticleer and whose work has been written up by Alex R…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 10:01AMFriday, December 21, 2012
I can't imagine a more wonderful place to experience the "musical theatre" of John Cage than in the new concert space at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which opened less than a ye…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:56AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Last weekend in Davis, CA, I had the pleasure of interviewing Aaron Humble and Adam Reinwald of the Cantus men's chorus based in the Twin Cities.One of the things the singers said which stru…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:26PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Of all the arts, the cinema has traditionally been the most passive from the audience's perspective. We stare at the screen, and any reactions we have (burying our faces in pillows, crying, …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:59AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Slipstream Strategy founder Tamsin Smith who blogs for The Huffington Post just wrote a great piece about singing -- and specifically about VoiceBox -- for the HuffPo. The lin…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:08PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
I've been thinking about how much audiences seem to value the element of spontaneity in their musical experiences -- and how much this element is lacking from some types of music, notably we…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:19PMWhen most people think of El Sistema, the amazing Venezuelan-born music education program that's transforming the way in which many countries are approaching the musical development of child…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:17PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Cultural industry workers who happened to attend Clas/sick Hip Hop at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend, would very likely have been impressed and probably envious o…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:39PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Cal Performances is hosting a two-day conference about music education centering on El Sistema, the lauded Venezuelan approach. The conference is part of a bunch of offerings organized aroun…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:33PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Sasha Frere-Jones' recent article in The New Yorker about the British songstress Paloma Faith’s entrée into the United States market got me thinking about the fortunes of British female s…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:58PMMonday, November 26, 2012
I feel sort of embarrassed to say this as the thing has gotten such euphoric reviews, but Steven Spielberg's new movie about Abraham Lincoln kinda left me cold. I exited the theatre over the…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:31PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
The Theatre Development Fund has launched a whimsical online resource called Theatre Dictionary.The tool is being billed as "a video guide to 'theatre lingo' by TDF and theatre companies fro…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:35PMMonday, November 19, 2012
The current production of Tosca at the San Francisco Opera is wonderful to hear. The orchestra plays lavishly and the excellent double cast (which featured Patricia Racette in the title…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:55PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Why does time so often play tricks on us when we go to the theatre? Why do plays rarely feel the length that they actually are -- even ones that claim a unity of time, place and action?I ask…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:56PM 
