But with live performances suspended by the coronavirus pandemic, we classical music critics decided to take matters into our own hands and create our dream cycle, featuring our favorite rec…
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest and largest American nonprofit theaters and a popular travel destination, said on Friday that it would lay off 80 percent of its 500 employ…
Sandy, as listeners called him, spoke like a reassuring, relatable friend. "Sandy Macpherson's quiet voice is very reassuring at a time when our ears are on the alert for warning sirens," on…
The rise of night mayors after 2012 followed the recognition by many cities that they largely ignored what many called their nighttime economies. Those who worked in the nighttime entertainm…
Jill Lepore: "The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, and leaves only the animal. "Farewell to …
"These are not the end times, I mean, but nor are they business as usual, and we would do well to understand that not only is there room for a middle path between these, but indeed there is …
The necessary response to the pandemic has, after all, intensified huge swaths of the population's pre-pandemic situations. The economically and medically fragile are at new risk; the cloist…
"There's a symbolism and communications problem if you're starting to inflict loss and suffering on your staff. If Peter Gelb or Deborah Rutter start to, and need to, lay off lots of people …
Most industry creative and support occupations are not eligible for unemployment. The bill now covers self-employed small-business owners, a category that in music ranges from songwriter…
Day after day during the recording sessions, he did take after take, hour after hour. It was Marty Krystall who finally starting insisting on regular breaks. Death hovered over the sessions …
"Roughly 90% of our members are affected," said Horace Trubridge, general secretary of the Musicians' Union. "This will force musicians out of the profession. Our members also do a lot of ev…
We knew, as the climate crisis deepened, that this global art world constantly on the move was coming under necessary pressure. Now the prophylactic stasis demanded by this pandemic has viol…
Insulted and incensed, Oedipus responds as intemperately as Trump when crossed by a politician or held to account by a member of the press. To salve his injured pride, Oedipus harks back to …
In the coming weeks, virtual walks may become a thing. Meanwhile, the architect David Rockwell is first onstage, having elected to look at Broadway's hibernating theaters. " The New York Tim…
"So am I a dancer? The short answer is no. And people find this answer surprising. Many expect a dance writer to dance, despite not having the same expectations of other fields. For instance…
Global, which owns Capital FM and talk station LBC, said online radio listening had risen by 15%. The BBC said streaming of its radio stations had risen 18% since last week. Meanwhile, data …
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University seeks a full-time Managing Director.
The Louvre, like museums all around the world, is closed. The humor of the meme about art like the Mona Lisa putting its feet up is its suggestion that the great, iconic works shuttered ther…
For teachers of the performing arts, seemingly insuperable challenges complicate the task: how does one teach dance and acting"quintessentially embodied forms dependent on human-to-human obs…
If an earthquake now hits India or Iran, like in 2001 and 2003, respectively, killing over 20,000 people in each country"or if we witness a repeat of 2005's Hurricane Katrina in the US or 20…
The ball parks are closed, but baseball will move online. It will happen Thursday, on what would have been opening day across baseball. The virtual event will feature a classic game for all …
Adrian Ellis: "The sector is economically significant"we have the data on all those jobs created; on the new investment the arts attract to urban areas; and on those high-end cultural touris…
Even during past recessions, consumers still flocked to theaters to forget their troubles. With ticketing and concession sales now evaporated, many analysts fret that some cinemas will not b…
They are asking for a $2 trillion commitment for programs that will create living-wage jobs, amped-up public health and housing sectors, and a pivot away from a fossil-fuels-based energy fra…
"Like in journalism, in all the creative occupations, there's no stability unless you're a superstar of some sort. " " New York Times Magazine