She had her retirement dress and her finale plan. She'd stretched and was ready for rehearsal for the performance on March 13. "Suddenly, the carefully choreographed end to Kuykendall's 22-y…
And then write essays about them. On the other hand: "The other night I tried Wings of Desire. That really didn't go well. You could see the kids' minds were blown by the concept of angel…
The Handel and Haydn Society has been around, performing Baroque concerts on period instruments, since 1815. And now it's time to diversify their programming " and acknowledge the diversity …
That is the question. The Booker delayed its prize not because it couldn't have a virtual ceremony, but because book distribution is in a bit of a crisis right now. "According to a statement…
Paris without tourists looks and feels different " and is a reminder of other traumatic times. "In this stage-set Paris, the monuments still brilliantly illuminated, it is easy to imagine an…
At issue in the SAG-AFTRA talks with the studios is everything from scheduling to residuals, and certainly health insurance as members deal with loss of jobs to the coronavirus shutdown. " L…
Richard Nelson introduced the Apples in 2010, and then wrote a whole cycle around them in the early 2000s. He moved on to other families for a while. But "for many who met them at the Public…
Though the troupe has cut back on performances, it's still going (Japan has encouraged people to stay home, but hasn't shut down places like theatres " at the time of writing this post): "Ge…
Julie Kent, who played Kathleen: "I do remember talking to Nicholas [Hytner, the film's director] at the audition about why he wanted to do this movie. . … He said he loved the art form, a…
Wall, longtime professor at Rutgers, changed the world of literature. She "championed racial diversity both in the curriculum and the classroom. She encouraged more black students to major i…
In the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who was in police custody, some artists (of all types) found inspiration and a platform for a country suddenly interested in Baltimor…
That's right: Families that quarantine together are starting to dance together (and record the dancing as well). " CBC
ICA Watershed in East Boston is closed, of course " but then the staff of the ICA learned that East Boston had one of the area's highest rates of Covid-19 infection and that the people of th…
Logical, right? (Maybe? Who actually knows?) The New York Public Library's CEO says that "libraries once they reopen may impose a quarantine period on books that lasts as long as scientists …
In another Hollywood blow, the studio laid off about 50 of its remaining staff " and made those cuts permanent. "We are reconfiguring certain divisions of the studio to allow MGM to operate …
No one has actually studied mass makeovers during a prolonged global pandemic"we're in uncharted territory here"but people like Christopher Oldstone-Moore think there's much to glean from pe…
While stuck indoors under lockdown, consumer have grown even more accustomed to streaming movies from the comfort of their home. Executives suggest those habits could make moviegoers more un…
About 11,000 of the Artist Relief applicants completed a survey co-sponsored by the nonprofit advocacy group Americans for the Arts. Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said they are now une…
For eight years the retired architect, who immigrated to Los Angeles from the Philippines in 1969, had been visiting a different art museum, gallery or public art installation every day of t…
"I'm not going to say this new online platform replaces theatre, I just think that temporarily it is a really interesting form of storytelling." " American Theatre
No, it's not a traditional practice, but there are pallbearers in Ghana who (at the bereaved's request) will execute some slick moves while toting the coffin on their shoulders. The social m…
"We're giving it a try to be creative. Yes, it would have been easier just to post a press release, but the board, especially for our chapter, decided to see if we could come up with somethi…
Karissa Krenz: "Perhaps the coronavirus is forcing us to have an extended performance of John Cage's … groundbreaking 1952 work that epitomized his every-sound-can-be-music philosophy. ……
Turns out not even the people involved agree on the answer to that. Absolutely not, says Ryan Rilette, artistic director of metro DC's Round House (the theater behind the project): "You can'…
Practical concerns aside, it can be difficult to keep creating during a pandemic that has already killed more than 180,000 people worldwide. Even so, people who need to express themselves th…