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Peter J. Kuo of ACT: "With the ability to gather in person on freeze, many of us in the theatre industry collectively held our breaths, waiting to exhale. Now, we find ourselves gasping for …
"Just as the coronavirus crisis has stimulated a surge of digital theatre on our screens, it has also sparked a wave of theatre via our headphones, the latest, unexpected development in an a…
He wrote on Facebook that when his shows across Europe were cancelled on 7 May, it was in the belief that fans would receive a refund. While this was the case in the other countries the sing…
"[The orchestra's] 2,854-seat Musikverein, considered by many the world's most beautiful concert hall, was filled with only 100 people Friday for the first of three days of programs with Dan…
"'Perhaps you will join us one day,' said Mrs. Beltane, in the rather perfunctory tone in which social invitations not meant to be accepted are sometimes issued, and to which the only suitab…
"A world-class saxophonist with a big sound, a big presence and a capricious improviser's imagination, [he] sometimes seemed more at home playing pub gigs in his Croydon birthplace than chas…
According to a new survey, 90 percent of independent venue owners, promoters and bookers say that they will have to close permanently within the next few months, if they can't get an infusio…
After initially resisting the resisters' demands that it halt its production of napalm, Dow stopped making it in 1969. Now Warren Kanders, who resigned under political pressure last July fro…
My essay, "To What End Permanence?," seeks to get beyond the question of economic solvency to examine other signs that it may be time to shut a thing down and other motivations for closing. …
The accounts are a way for musicians to hold themselves accountable for consistent, productive practice and to receive feedback from other musicians. They are also an archival tool, a way to…
In sports medicine, a growing body of research suggests that specializing in one form of training increases the risk of injury and burnout in young athletes. Not all sports medicine research…
The time-honored answer to this what-gives-you-the-right question is: creative imagination, which for the writer is a muscular species of empathy. Okay, I'm not you, the logic goes, but if I…
Following a wave of postponements due to the public-heath situation, it seems that 2021 may give 2017 a run for its money. There are at least 20 major biennials"more biennials than months"so…
"The limitations of relaying opera from stage to online are subtle. It's the difference between an experience that's mesmerizing and one that's merely impressive." David Patrick Stearns cons…
Literacy altered the human brain, making it "refit some of its existing neuronal groups" and "form newly recycled circuits." The brain had to change because the innate brain can't read. It r…
The decision not to resume performances before Jan. 6, 2021, at the earliest came the week after the Metropolitan Opera said it would not reopen before the end of December. Like the Philharm…
Teotihuacán, which had a population of around 100,000 at its height circa 500 CE, seems to have had no system of writing and left behind no known written records. But musical instruments …
"We can dismantle oppression in our language as a means of valuing and honoring individuals in the room. There are a plethora of sayings used in rehearsal environments that cause a BIPOC art…
"[He] was 'an antique guy in a modern world,' appearing in a derby and vest and performing illusions from the vaudeville era: classic tricks with steel rings or handkerchief, dividing an ass…
"As if moving to some syncopated symphony, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the country are parading out statements of "solidarity" in these moments. I've stopped counting…
Whatever it is you're striving to achieve, science shows you're likely to push harder the closer you feel to the finish line. When researchers first speculated about this tendency, they call…
In a 2018 I was invited by Melanie Joseph to write an essay for a book that would mark the final production of the company she founded 25 years earlier, The Foundry Theatre. The book, A Mome…
Affirming warnings it gave last week, the world's largest movie theater chain reported that it lost $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, a period that saw the beginning of the coronavi…
The museum, one of Southern California's leading venues for photo exhibitions, had been closed for three months because of the coronavirus lockdown and was unsure when, and under what rules,…
"More than 1,800 people have signed on to an open letter criticizing the Poetry Foundation's response to the protests sweeping the United States, pledging not to work with the organization u…
