Five days ago, the largest opera company by budget in the United States released a statement to the press that all rehearsals and performances through the end of the month would be cancelled…
Writers Bloc, a series of talks, readings and discussions, pulls in sold-out crowds for the likes of Rachel Maddow, Cory Booker, Joy Reid, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pod Save America guys. Ye…
The potential long-term effects for book retailers are sobering. Many in the industry are worried that independent bookstores will be devastated as local and state officials mandate social d…
"The authors I contacted all jumped at the chance to do something to benefit both the bookstore and those readers facing isolation, even though many of those authors themselves are entering …
Michael Kaiser: "For many, it is a lack of clarity on the duration of the crisis that causes the most anxiety. Should we proceed with rehearsals for a new production scheduled for May? Do we…
If there is a silver lining in this crisis, it may be that the virus is forcing us to use the internet as it was always meant to be used " to connect with one another, share information and …
"This is 9/11 meets The Great Recession meets the snowstorm," Randy Engstrom, director of the city's Office of Arts and Culture (OAC), said during an online public meeting Tuesday afternoon.…
The organization Sama for All, founded by Syrian refugee Souad Nanaa, prepares displaced persons in France to find jobs in museums and cultural organizations. The six-month program teaches t…
LAUSD curriculum specialists and PBS SoCal/KCET were in a programming war room, mapping out priorities by grade, and identifying shows inside the TV stations' library that might match up. Al…
"Shows are drastically scaling down their studio time, production teams are increasingly shifting to remote workflows, public radio stations are postponing their pledge drives, and independe…
"Life as a freelancer is already touch and go. We can't really count on work to begin with, we don't know what our schedules will be more than 3-6 months in advance, there's always the risk …
"When I first met Inigo Philbrick in 2012, he was all of 25, looked an awful lot like Justin Timberlake, and … I was immediately smitten, professionally and personally; Philbrick was sharp…
These virtual tours take you right inside some of the world's most iconic institutions. Been putting off that trip to Amsterdam to explore the Van Gogh Museum? Here's your chance to take it …
In addition to being the handsome announcer and sketch actor on Burnett's show and the foil to Lynda Carter's superheroine, he was the first-ever centerfold for Playgirl magazine and, later …
There are a lot of small regional organizations on this list who are stepping up despite finances that are precarious even in good times, but the only big-name company there is Houston Grand…
Venetians are posting photos to the Facebook group Venezia Pulita (Clean Venice), saying that they've never seen the water in the canals so clear. It's not that they're suddenly far less pol…
Marina Harss talks to four dancers from across the country about how they're staying in shape and in touch despite being more or less trapped in their houses. " The New York Times
Garnet Henderson's guide includes more than just obvious advice such as "keep three to six months' worth of income in savings" (which, she acknowledges, is impossible for many dancers). One …
Of the dozen or more such articles that we've seen so far, this one from David Patrick Stearns is our favorite so far " not only because it offers a lot of options, but also because of his s…
The replica Elizabethan theatre in the Shenandoah Valley normally thrives, in the usual hand-to-mouth way, with a mix of school groups and out-of-town visitors. Now both are gone indefinitel…
Frederick Ashton dances the mime role of Carabosse in Ninette De Valois's production of Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, performed by London's Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet…
"In public life it is sometimes necessary to appear really natural to be actually artificial." Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Continue reading Almanac: Calvin Coolidge on a secret of t…
I doubt it will surprise any of you to learn that I'd been growing increasingly worried about the inability of Mrs. T's doctors to rouse her from the medically induced coma into which she wa…
Jazz doesn't want to stay home and chill, so members of the Jazz Journalists Association have launched JazzOnLockdown: Hear It Here, a series of curated v-logs featuring performance videos o…
Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University and spends much of his time in Tel Aviv, unexpectedly became a h…