Moira Macdonald was at Pacific Northwest Ballet's final (in too many senses) dress rehearsal for a program the public won't get to attend. "There was no one in the seat in front of me, no on…
"We're going make sure we protect our people, but we need to keep the arts and the music going. That's what we're going to do. That's why we're here." " The Guardian
"The few people present in the hall … were asked not to applaud because such meager clapping would sound pallid to listeners tuning in from elsewhere. But for those who were there, it was …
The company will also make movies that are currently in theatrical release available on-demand beginning as early as Friday, starting with the Elisabeth Moss horror film "The Invisible Man,"…
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation: "These Denver-based organizations offer ongoing public arts & culture programming and are at risk for earned revenue loss due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.…
"If you read The Plague long ago, perhaps for a college class, … perhaps you paid more attention to the buboes and the lime pits than to the narrator's depiction of the 'hectic exaltation'…
After many weeks of self-quarantining and social distancing, will people be eager to rub shoulders again when restrictions are lifted? And what will happen to the release calendar, with so m…
Charles McNulty: "I'm sure I'm not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to a country house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountain of Dickens and Dostoevsky. Bu…
The British Museum on Tuesday announced that 1,311 finds which are defined as treasure had been found by members of the public across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2019. They also i…
As dance, music and opera companies seek ways to stream performances online; dance teachers hold class and dance parties on Instagram live; university dance programs unveil plans to move cur…
Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader's intelligence. At the beginning of the "Iliad," for instance, the prophet Calchas " who knows the caus…
Newsstands are even registering a small bump in sales. That was clear in Milan. In a busier newsstand, near a major shopping street here, I had to wait to pay for the newspaper. And when my …
Alexis Soloski, who wrote a dissertation on the subject, reminds us that playwrights from Sophocles through Shaw to Kushner and Kramer have grappled with the subject. "It's only a matter of …
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…
"After an emergency meeting over the weekend, the India Motion Picture Producers' Association said Monday that it would request the suspension of all film, TV, advertising and web series sho…
With the rest of the company's summer season in Sydney cancelled, including the popular and lucrative outdoor Opera on the Harbour, CEO Rory Jeffes said, "suddenly we were in a position wher…
"In 2017, having realized how much business the gallery did through online previews before art fairs, the dealer David Zwirner decided to develop virtual viewing rooms. Now, as art fairs are…
"The Society of London Theatre (Solt) and UK Theatre, the industry body that represents nearly every British theatre, announced that, as of Monday night, all its members would close their do…
"We will refocus some grant programmes to help compensate individual artists and freelancers for lost earnings," said a statement from Arts Council England. "This will require further planni…
A grand-niece of Susan B. Anthony, Dwyer was only the second woman ever to win a principal chair in a major U.S. orchestra. She joined the BSO in 1952 (negotiating a higher-than-usual salary…
AMC will keep its theatres dark for six to 12 weeks; Regal, Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse, Showcase, Harkins, and Bow Tie have closed indefinitely; ArcLight and Pacific Theaters will close this…
From 2010: Unlike most middle-aged bloggers, I've been hearing from the public for the whole of my adult life"I started writing newspaper criticism while I was still an undergraduate"and so …
"What happens is, your voice isn't going to go anywhere. But if you try to possess it, by playing only the things you like, forever, you will then sound like all these other guys who became …
The reality for most organisations is that their value and survival increasingly demand competence " and coherence " across all audience development. Many next-generation cultural organisati…
Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler's wartime broadcasts with the Berlin …