Playwright Nick Green created the Social Distancing Festival website to host rehearsal videos, designs, photos, excerpts and other pieces of work that have been cancelled or postponed in the…
To give users a personalised experience, the deep learning bot gathers information about conversation partners by asking them questions, adapts to their conversational style and, over time, …
"Art spaces … are doing their part to meet the needs of medical professionals, packing up crates of gloves typically used to protect artworks from oil and dust on the hands of those touchi…
The money is intended to prevent artists and arts organisations from going bust, but is also designed to help them come up with creative responses "to buoy the public" during the lockdown. "…
"The [American Library Association] urged the FCC to waive E-rate restrictions so libraries could not only offer [free] Wi-Fi access via local libraries, but could also provide broadband ser…
The recently interrupted tours, canceled premieres, locked studios and social distancing requirements have hit the financially fragile, socially enmeshed dance world hard. When your life rev…
Brian Seibert: "She calls it Passing and Jostling While Being Confined to a Small Apartment. It's a dance history exercise [for Seibert's class at Yale], but it occurred to me that it might …
Zach Finkelstein does not sugar-coat the situation: "The tragic irony of this crisis is that, in the post-COVID era, the person most likely to have a performance career will be the one that …
"Born colorblind and with six fingers on each hand, [he] became one of the world's most acclaimed cartoonists, known for drawing characters that ranged from the sword-wielding Astérix " wit…
Perhaps the most important comic voice in theater since Neil Simon, McNally wrote to amuse and awaken. Laughter for him was the greatest survival tool ever invented. Humor was his shield aga…
The nearly 150-year-old school, which counts Ansel Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, and Dorothea Lange as former faculty, says that it can't continue to operate in the near term unless it joins a …
"The Ojai Music Festival has joined the list of coronavirus cancellations, … marking the first time since its founding in 1947 that the annual celebration of experimental classical music w…
"After spending about $4.5 million that can't be recovered, [the] Festival now must cope with a projected $756,000 deficit for 2020. (It did manage to avoid spending another $4.5 million tha…
"Their sentiments run the gamut from hope to doom ('I've been wondering when the next mass extinction event would come. This is it.') and collectively form an uncertain picture of the future…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a live-streamed version of American Conservatory Theater's production of Lydia R. Diamond's Toni Stone. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Slowly …
I wrote the Wall Street Journal's obituary of Terrence McNally on a two-hour deadline Tuesday afternoon. Even though it was written in great haste, I hope it does him justice. Here's an e…
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I've been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of our Manhattan apartment"the …
Gene Krupa performs and is interviewed on an episode of The Mike Douglas Show originally taped for telecast on March 8, 1965. Krupa's quartet includes Carmen Leggio on tenor saxophone, Di…
"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not." Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" Continue reading Al…
We are making the adjustment to teaching arts policy at a distance for the remainder of the semester, and so I'm about to get used to (and hopefully better at) short videos for students, pra…
"Drive-in movie theaters may seem like a blast from the past, something out of the 1950s or '60s. Numerous baby boomers haven't gone for decades; Gen Xers and millennials, perhaps never. But…
McNally, once referred to as "the quintessential man of the theater" by actress Zoe Caldwell, died from complications related to the coronavirus, according to his publicist Matt Polk. He was…
The economic fallout of the virus has made the disparity between employed workers and independent contractors clearer than ever. New York has a paid-sick-leave law, but it does not cover con…
According to a report by Le Parisien, two men face charges for allegedly attempting to steal various stones from the cathedral after the government ordered a pause on reconstruction so as to…
Two years ago this was a hot idea as a way of expanding the art market. You could own shares in works of art. But then bitcoin value cratered and things have stalled… " The Art Newspaper