There's no touring, no practicing for Coachella, no videos filming. There's nothing. "As the entertainment business comes to a halt, commercial dancers and choreographers " the performers…
Bosé won the Miss Italy beauty pageant in 1947, which eventually led to her acting career. She worked with Italian neorealists, Jean Cocteau, Juan Antonio Bardem, Federico Fellini and many …
Not everyone is happy about this. "Opponents of LACMA's building project have zeroed in on county funding that includes $117.5 million released last April, arguing that the money should b…
Why now? "As an adult, I've try to keep my performing past under wraps. Being a theater nerd was never cool to begin with, but … polite society seems to find something sad about being nost…
Could some of this be the future of online theatre? "In response to this crisis, Actors Equity Association created a new, temporary streaming agreement available for select produ…
Daniels, once a leading countertenor and now facing a separate criminal charge for sexual assault in Texas, "was deemed not eligible for severance pay. According to the university, Daniels i…
Ben Brantley: "Remember that plays " even those lofty classics that show up on college reading lists " are meant to be spoken and heard. And saying their lines aloud, no matter how clumsily,…
Despite petitions with thousands of signatures and attempts at local legislation, many galleries aren't eligible for small business loans and other relief. "April 1 is quickly approaching an…
So what are they doing instead of booking, acting, producing, and bartending? Hosting livestreamed music classes for kids in the morning and asking watchers to donate $5 if they have it; bui…
Despite a $25 million stimulus package for the Kennedy Center, the musicians of the NSO were told late Friday night that their April 3 paycheck would be their last, and their health care wou…
Founded by a playwright, the Social Distancing Festival has, not surprisingly, already gotten hundreds of submissions, with more coming by the minute. " BBC
Mo Willems, Grace Lin, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and so many others are offering drawing lessons, read alouds, virtual book tours and so much more online. Oliver Jeffers: "We are all at h…
Who needs Netflix when you've got the Canadian Film Board, right? (Also, if you like Canadian work, Kim's Convenience is on Netflix.) " CBC
Disney is so big it's even creating metaphors about itself in its many, many, many, many properties. "Disney's gravitational pull is warping the very space-time continuum of the media landsc…
In addition, as a huge show in London is suspended because of the COVID-19 outbreak, he says, "Cultural institutions are probably the last to be damaged, but the first to show how severely t…
Says one freelance photographer and bartender, "All my jobs have been canceled at the photo studio, and now my safety job has disappeared too." One academic who studies the music industry sa…
Miles founded Women's Project and eventually the WP Theater, where she and others "produced more than 600 plays written and directed by women over a 42-year history, nurturing artists like L…
Ten picks from the NYT include podcasts from curators, artists, and critics in Los Angeles, London, Australia, Canada, Italy, and more. " The New York Times
When fire, smoke, and water pumped in for more than 20 hours ripped through the archives at the Museum of the Chinese in America in late January, the staff thought all of the more than 85,00…
No one is comfortable buying tickets yet (literally no one, as in zero people, in two of the provinces where theatres reopened), but the distributors had a plan for that: "Most of the films …
Marsha Hunt, who "never wanted to do anything but act," was on the list when the "Red Channels" were published, claiming she was a Communist or "fellow traveler." Why? Because she had defend…
The sudden loss of community is especially marked in theatre. "As companies cancel productions that were months to years in the making for the sake of social distancing and self-quarantining…
Banff laid off 75 percent of its staff members as classes closed, and the Stratford Festival (reported in a separate CBC story, here) "laid off 495 people Friday and says another 440 will ha…
After multiple sketches and a cold open, not to mention a quarantine-themed title sequence, Ian Abramson might be just a bit exhausted. "If it doesn't kill him, Abramson should do this again…
The singer "said that he is currently in good health but decided to get tested after experiencing 'fever and cough symptoms.'" " CNN