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How many climate-themed works have been presented in the theaters of America, one of the major energy-gouging countries in the world " particularly in our large, well-funded stages? It is an…
Rachel Burttram Powers, co-founder and co-star (with husband Brendan) of Tiny_Theatre: "I started cleaning out a back closet because I thought, 'What would happen if you made a theatre at ho…
"Without an urgent government rescue package, 70% of our performing arts companies will be out of business before the end of this year," she wrote. "More than 1,000 theatres around the count…
The Menil Collection's octagonal landmark, which houses 14 of Mark Rothko's black paintings, was closed in early 2019 for work that included reinforcing the walls, installing a digital light…
The performance, Riccardo Muti conducting the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Scriabin and Mozart, will be the opening event of this year's Ravenna Festival. Attendance will be limited to…
"The industry task force that was assembled last month to address the safety issues has generated a 30-page draft of a white paper that is designed to convince governmental officials to give…
The issue discussed in a report just released by the Copyright Office is the DMCA's Section 512, which lays out what social media companies and Online Service Providers (e.g., Spotify, YouTu…
And the music at issue is almost always in the public domain. The bots, developed and trained on popular music, are finding performance videos of, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and so on to be too si…
"On Saturday night, about 35 cars converged at the Santa Monica Airport parking lot. Inside each vehicle, the passengers had 12 pages of instructions: Arrive exactly at 7:50 pm; stay inside …
Marina Harss: "A masked dancer in a studio, which is empty but for a pianist, peers into her computer's camera, calling out a cheerful 'Hi, everyone! So good to see you!' In another frame, a…
In mitigating the impact of the COVID19 crisis, the federal government swiftly responded with economy-wide measures as part of its immediate relief. It is in this roll out of the Canada Emer…
Chris Bohjalian: "If 9/11 is a literary precedent, it could be years before we will see our first rush of novels about the coronavirus pandemic." (The first such major titles, Ian McEwan's S…
"As a critic, I am desperate to maintain contact with what musicians are doing, thinking, and feeling. The sound is often tinny, the stage patter awkward, the home décor distracting. One co…
"A hummingbird of a woman at 4-foot-8, [she] was a puppeteer whose performances were mock-chaotic, subtly cerebral and always slyly subversive. She made sure to slip in a history lesson, or …
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the latest American Shakespeare Center webcast, a revival of Frank Galati's stage version of The Grapes of Wrath. Here's an excerpt.
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Michael Parkinson interviews James Stewart and his wife Gloria on the BBC in 1973:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday,…
"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.."
Confucius, Analects
Continue reading Almanac: Confucius on diligence at About Last Night.
"Jay," the name he went by among close friends, was widely regarded as one of Germany's premiere second-generation Beat writers. But his narrative fiction " like that of William S. Burroughs…
A message from Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti, which hit my inbox late Friday, included a boldfaced passage that struck me (and probably some of his firm's clients) as an implied gibe at a…
The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company's events business, which was one of its strongest pillars for many years.
Beyond self-inflicted attention deficits, people who cannot deep read " or who do not use and hence lose the deep-reading skills they learned " typically suffer f…
"[He was] a co-founder and the artistic director of Repertorio Español, … [which since 1968] has reimagined Spanish classics and offered contemporary work by Latin and Latin American pl…
In the innovative system, the disinfectant is stored on the ground, and pumped through a hose to the hovering drone, which then spreads it throughout the theater. Meanwhile, another drone dr…
The fundraiser, organized by Christie's, netted €5.1 million for CARE's clean-water projects in three African countries. The prize, a small 1921 Nature morte (still-life), went to an I…
The global live music industry is worth some $30 billion every year. Or, rather, was. In a matter of weeks, Covid-19 shut down everything from pub gigs to festivals. And in doing so, it also…
