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One of the last songs at this winter's Youth Traditional Song Weekend emphasized standing together in song. Now, "the act of gathering to sing feels like something for a tenuous tomorrow. On…
Malls and other retail establishments reopened in the state as well. Movie theatres that reopened were showing older-run movies for $5. In one San Antonio theatre, "in an upscale shopping ce…
Buffman produced everyone, including Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes (it was a hit) and Muhammed Ali in Buck White (it was a memorable flop). But he "was even busier in Florida than on …
Howard Silverman helped found Bristol's Spike Island nearly 50 years ago " and now a new board has told him he must pack up his studio and go, in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown. "Fel…
Emily Mann was set to wrap up three decades as the director of McCarter Theater Center in Princeton this spring. Then everything shut down " and her gala went online. "'I think I liked this …
The move was widely criticized across the world " and feared by nonprofits. One of them said that "the proposed buyout was an attempt by domain name industry insiders to profit off of thousa…
The theatre company Slung Low is used to thinking creatively, says its artistic director. This is just a bit different: "Constantly I'm on the phone doing deals. The other day, I swapped a l…
In the category of things some of us hadn't thought enough about before this moment: "Vincent was an avid and multilingual reader, a man who could not do without books. In his brief life he …
The organizer said, "Lockdown Maypole dancing is still possible," and, in their own gardens or even inside, many agreed. " BBC
The George N'Namdi galleries were sometimes the only game in the country for Black artists in the 1980s. According to a recent lawsuit, "Discrimination in the art world prevented the recogni…
Everyone's watching to find out, but one big issue is social distancing and profit margins (such as they are not, typically, in theatre). "Keeping audience members two metres apart would lim…
Idir trained to be a geologist, but "his life took a twist in 1973 when he was called up as a last-minute replacement on the radio to sing 'A Vava Inouva.' It was a lullaby with the 'rich or…
"There's nothing like the Xanadu of a giant screen, air conditioning, darkness, Milk Duds and a big Hollywood movie in a packed theater" " which means that, right now, there's a very well-li…
Let's start with graph paper (and an emphasis on making work instead of the reception of work). " Hyperallergic
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening …
Eubie Blake, the great ragtime and jazz pianist and composer, talks about his life and work, endorses Dr Pepper, and sings and plays the Dr Pepper jingle in a recording session for a 1974 TV…
"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (trans. George Lon…
The U.S. and other countries have been looking to China and Italy to predict what the pandemic would be like during the most intense times of infection. Now, take Wuhan as an example, the sl…
Allen was a Nigerian drummer who perhaps didn't invent Afrobeat but certainly popularized it and took it everywhere. "Allen's swirl of jazz, Yoruba and highlife was unlike anything the world…
This isn't a great time for teachers and performers of improv comedy. Caroline Martin, who taught at Upright Citizens Brigade: "I have seen and been invited to do improv shows online on Zoom…
In Oregon, arts organizations know Ronni Lacroute, and she knows what they need " usually. Right now, says the philanthropist, things are just a bit different: "The way I donate hasn't reall…
Streetscapes aren't looking too great right now in many cities. And "museums and galleries around the world have locked their doors as people wait out the coronavirus pandemic in isolation. …
N.K. Jemisin won three Hugo Awards in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy, a science fictional world where the protagonist is a middle-aged Black woman (and mother). But to get to that point,…
And that trust took him to some weird places in Lorrain's newest movie, Ema. Bernal: "All films are mysteries; you don't know how they're going end up . . . but this one had mystery as its k…
Khan, who was only 53 when he died earlier this week, had a quality common in French cinema but rarely embraced in Bollywood: He was jolie laide, beautifully ugly or ugly beautiful, but more…
