All salary and benefits for the players wil be maintained through the end of the 2019-20 season in June " thanks, according to executive director Danny Beckley, to increased support from pat…
"The bill includes $75 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 'to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for fiscal stabilization grants to public telecommu…
"The new two-month National Theatre at Home programme will begin with One Man, Two Guvnors, the Richard Bean comedy starring James Corden. The films will be shown at 7pm every Thursday to tr…
Most industry creative and support occupations are not eligible for unemployment. The bill now covers self-employed small-business owners, a category that in music ranges from songwriter…
"It is the middle of a plague " 'a pestilence so great and universal, that already it has been three months since it started, and many have died and many more continue to die.' This does lit…
Day after day during the recording sessions, he did take after take, hour after hour. It was Marty Krystall who finally starting insisting on regular breaks. Death hovered over the sessions …
"Art Basel has now moved its Swiss edition " which regularly convenes nearly 300 galleries and is considered to be among the biggest art events each year " to run from September 17"20, with …
"The employees who are to be paid and receive benefits through the dark season include the dancers, musicians, stagehands, costume designers, security personnel, ushers and administrators. �…
Said festival founder Martin T. Engstroem, "There were far too many uncertainties. Our audience and our musicians come from all over the world with a large population mix. We could not take …
To everyone who's written to me here and in the social media with kind and encouraging words of all sorts, both for me and for Mrs. T, I want to thank you very much for being in touch. It me…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of Syracuse Stage's revival of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Syracuse Stage's revival of Peter Shaffer's "…
I've written an essay for the weekend Wall Street Journal that minces no words: the coronavirus pandemic is already a disaster for the performing arts in America, and things will get wors…
Lotte Lenya sings "Pirate Jenny" (from The Three-Penny Opera) on "The World of Kurt Weill," an episode of NET Playhouse originally telecast in 1967. Bertolt Brecht's lyrics are sung in…
"Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired." Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind Continue reading Almanac: Marvin Minsky on what it means to be smart at About Last Night.
"Dance curators do a lot more than program a season. They spot raw talent, develop and shape careers, identify trends and create context around what they are presenting. But what does it tak…
"Roughly 90% of our members are affected," said Horace Trubridge, general secretary of the Musicians' Union. "This will force musicians out of the profession. Our members also do a lot of ev…
Bret Stephens pays tribute to Annette Nancarrow (the composer Conlon was the third of her four husbands), a genteel, well-to-do Manhattan Jewish girl who ran off to Mexico City, became besti…
Insulted and incensed, Oedipus responds as intemperately as Trump when crossed by a politician or held to account by a member of the press. To salve his injured pride, Oedipus harks back to …
We knew, as the climate crisis deepened, that this global art world constantly on the move was coming under necessary pressure. Now the prophylactic stasis demanded by this pandemic has viol…
"So am I a dancer? The short answer is no. And people find this answer surprising. Many expect a dance writer to dance, despite not having the same expectations of other fields. For instance…
In the coming weeks, virtual walks may become a thing. Meanwhile, the architect David Rockwell is first onstage, having elected to look at Broadway's hibernating theaters. " The New York Tim…
Global, which owns Capital FM and talk station LBC, said online radio listening had risen by 15%. The BBC said streaming of its radio stations had risen 18% since last week. Meanwhile, data …
The Louvre, like museums all around the world, is closed. The humor of the meme about art like the Mona Lisa putting its feet up is its suggestion that the great, iconic works shuttered ther…
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University seeks a full-time Managing Director.
For teachers of the performing arts, seemingly insuperable challenges complicate the task: how does one teach dance and acting"quintessentially embodied forms dependent on human-to-human obs…