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Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler chose one way, conducting in Nazi Germany through World War II. Dmitry Shostakovich chose another in deep Soviet Russia. Joseph Horowitz contrasts the two in th…
It seems unthinkable that Saturday Night Live could go on right now, but April 11's show may mark something of a milestone " and a cultural record that should prove to be invaluable for the …
Well, perhaps it's the perfect time. "Readers, for their part, will emerge feeling doomed"yet oddly uplifted." " The Economist
Comic-book publishing, comics stores, the writers, the artists, and everyone are in serious trouble. "The industry has been throttled at every juncture. Comic-store owners have shuttered the…
The poem is made up (artfully) of lines from corporate emails. One stanza: "Feeling Fiesta today? Happy Taco Tuesday!Calories don't count during a pandemicGrocers report flour shortages as m…
When there's another pandemic, your theatre can be the one making history with broadcasts on YouTube or, who knows, something on Quibi. " The Stage (UK)
The opera singer says that the lyric arts are particularly at risk with the shutdown, and he addresses President Macron directly in his column. "I speak on behalf of troubadours and acrobats…
Wellbeing isn't individual; it's social. And in this, the Great Pause, we see that "It's not quite a revolution, but it's an epic conceptual awakening. … In some ways it's like a blissed-o…
The charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was planning a stream of a November 2019 (remember those halcyon days?) concert that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. Prob…
Well, why not? The original essayist might be the way to go. "On Solitude is one of Montaigne's many small masterpieces. It's an essay, typically short and, as always, disarmingly conversati…
Artists from San Diego, Chicago, Saskatchewan, New York, and more weigh in. Dia Bassett, for instance: "With the COVID-19 pandemic, my life as a mom to a toddler is more confined. My parents…
Soprano Vuvu Mpofu grew up surrounded by music in church choirs and school, but when she first heard an aria when she was 15, "the girl plunged into the library to find out where the music c…
Deborah Roberts, 57, who was set to have her first solo show in September, says, "My daddy hated art and said it was never going to be nothing. He would say, 'What are you doing that for?' �…
Now it's pretty much stopping with the garden pots as well as the artists can't mentor young proteges in the studio. But the already created ceramics are serving a purpose: "We hope that by …
Jason Robards talks about Eugene O'Neill. Robards appeared in the original stage production of Long Day's Journey Into Night and the 1956 New York revival of The Iceman Cometh:
(This …
"Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long ag…
Truth: "Art meme-ing has long been with us, but some mix of quarantine creativity, idle isolation and the need to connect through humor in these uncertain times is sparking a stream of misch…
The iconic San Francisco bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti said in its GoFundMe appeal that it was continuing to pay salaries and health care for its employees, but that i…
Novelist Waubgeshig Rice: "It kind of blew my mind. … I wrote that plot point of Moon of the Crusted Snow just as a what if, not as a how-to guide." " CBC
The actor, who had success as a child and in her teens and early twenties, says that social isolation with her dog isn't the worst thing. "This feels like heaven in a lot of ways because I d…
Who decided messing with Edna O'Brien was a good idea? Ian Parker of The New Yorker, that's who. But "after a complicated relationship with her home country " in 2015 President Michael Higgi…
The museum says it's facing a $10 million shortfall and must furlough 92 people and reduce the salaries for 85 more. The furloughed staff members, "which union officials said include about a…
Podcast from home, of course. (Or work in video games or animation " those industries, perhaps unsurprisingly, are doing just fine.) " Los Angeles Times
Idled theatres can't earn money, can't meet grant requirement deadlines, and have nothing they can do with huge sets or out-of-work actors or stage crews. It's not OK. "O'Gara conceded that …
Are books therapeutic? Is reading itself, with the concentration it requires, even possible now? Yes, but make it social. "The experience has been, by turns, surprisingly insightful and pred…
