"The Music Box in Chicago has a kind of tip-line where people can call in and describe what streaming services they have and their programmers will recommend what to watch. It's been wildly …
The covid-19 crisis has forced a sacrifice of so much of what makes opera so powerful " the massive casts, booming orchestras, elaborate staging and singular thrill of being present to exper…
The Ravinia and Grant Park cancellations bring this point home in one stunning blow, an entire musical season quashed before it started. We grieve these losses, knowing that they're slight c…
A new subscription plan that's part virtual, part in-theatre? Fierce scenario planning that projects out the next two years… " Philadelphia Inquirer
The problem is not audience participation. It may drop, but, as my analysis to follow shows, even if it drops 20, 30, or even 40 percent, that is not the drop we should worry about. What wil…
Plague columns haven't been much in fashion for nearly 300 years. But as the horrendous toll of death and suffering from today's modern coronavirus plague continues to climb, the time may ha…
Until recently, BPT had enjoyed a good reputation, sometimes called the David to Ticketmaster's Goliath. One unpaid client, the Taste of Philadelphia Food Tour, had been doing business with …
What makes it hard to maintain our intellectual integrity in such times is that crises can expose some political truths, though we have to struggle to see straight and recognize the limits o…
"By the time the eight-week course was over, I was the wretch I am now: an unhinged woman vehemently obsessed with oil painting who wrestles with it like a feral person for hours every day. …
"We have the power to decide to value art and culture in ways that support the kind of lives we want to be living. But to do that, we need more skin in the game"a greater shared commitment a…
For those governing and supporting museums, the old standards about the use and disposal of collections and endowments are rapidly risking obsolescence. Museums are, of course, property-rich…
Nicola Benedetti already offered online music classes through her own Benedetti Foundation. But the lockdown made her wonder whether they could reach an even wider audience on social media p…
The art world we return to"if there is one to return to at all"will be formed in this moment. This is the time to build our own institutions. Our shelter-in-place orders and the masses of wo…
Mark Swed: "I've never heard a cellist make the instrument sing quite the way Harrell did. Despite his impressive physical presence " he had been an athlete in his youth and traded football …
The average scientist's acquaintance with philosophy tends to be of the passing variety. This is a great pity. Deep-rooted, seemingly intractable problems in foundational theoretical physics…
During the COVID-19 shutdown, live-streamed concerts have grown from a novelty born of necessity into a fixture of cultural life. D-Nice's dance parties (known to include a presidential cand…
The Danish city of Aarhus allowed popular singer Mads Langer to perform a drive-thru event at a newly constructed venue just outside the city. With six days' notice, the event sold 500 ticke…
"There are systems we had before that are good and coming in handy, but there are new systems that are popping up all the time, too. I think it's going to change us for the better in the lon…
Called United We Stream, the combined live-streaming and fundraising platform hosts live music, DJ sets, performances and other live experiences from a growing roster of venues across Europe…
The rationale is clear enough. With families trapped inside by COVID-19, and children out of school and starting to climb the walls, a hyperactive new movie ought to be just the ticket. Also…
In his new budget to cope with the revenue loss driven by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Jim Kenney on Friday proposed the elimination of the city's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative…
According to Nielsen, play time was up by 45 percent during the last week of March, while worldwide sales were up at least 44 percent. " FiveThirtyEight
Atlanta's Plaza movie theatre is famous after its vociferous opposition to Governor Brian Kemp's decision to reopen theaters. But the theatre has been adapting its operations, offering onlin…
It's no great mystery why. Poetry is sticky. Prose slips. Barbed and spurred, poems catch in your chest; they get stuck in your head like songs. Still, to admit to liking poetry is faintly e…
Among the USPTO's arguments is the fact that US patent law repeatedly refers to inventors using humanlike terms such as "whoever" and pronouns like "himself" and "herself." The group behind …