Jason Farago: "Tokyo 2020, its name unchanged, will now take place in July 2021 if it takes place at all. Yet all around the Japanese capital is the legacy of another Olympics: the 1964 Summ…
When I pop around and listen to public radio streams from around the country, they almost universally sound like they did before the pandemic started. Same with the programs themselves. Thin…
Wesley Morris: "What would an American version be? Court, theater, a hearing, a telethon, therapy, TV, church, Ken Burns, Anna Deavere Smith? Each perhaps " and more. Who would make it? I do…
The video-sharing social media app said in a blog post Wednesday that it will give creators in the U.S. over $1 billion in the next three years, and more than double that globally. " CNBC
No, Dostoevsky's novel is only the second-most popular title among inmates there; Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is in the top spot, with Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo at number thr…
Kitsch is a conflicted term"hard to strictly define, but as with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's joke about pornography, one knows it when one sees it. For the purchasers of kitsch in…
"Venues newly allowed to reopen to customers include movie theaters, auditoriums, stadiums and performing arts centers. Those represent the last of the business restrictions not rolled back …
Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires was all set to go with a production of playwright David Cale's one-man play Harry Clarke " the union had given the go-ahead, and the theater had ha…
In a statement that also announced the cancellation of all remaining 2020 performances (including The Nutcracker), the company revealed that Michael Pastreich is departing after 14 months. H…
"Because he was not a celebrity editor, he was not particularly well known outside the publishing universe. But let us assure you, because we saw it firsthand: There was nobody quite like hi…
Shirley Verrett: "Maestro Stokowski called. He was embarrassed, but said that it would not be possible for me to sing with the Houston Symphony because the symphony board did not want to use…
"During my senior year of undergrad, my voice teacher complimented me on my final Mainstage role by saying: 'You did great! And you don't even look African-American on stage!'""[The language…
"A sprawling, 44-day anniversary program has been mostly postponed until next year. It has been replaced with a reduced, 30-day schedule, through Aug. 30, of concerts, plays and two (instead…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review the PBS webcast of the 2016 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. Here's an excerpt. *  *  * PBS has telecas…
The "overture" to Mark Morris' staging of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts, featuring the Mark Morris Dance Group and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of…
"Dancers are auto-erotic and have no conversation." Virgil Thomson, The State of Music Continue reading Almanac: Virgil Thomson on dancers at About Last Night.
Their names were Sister Föben, Sister Katura, and Sister Hanna, and they were members of the Ephrata Cloister, a radical commune of Pennsylvania Dutch Evangelicals in the mid-1700s. Bariton…
"The pandemic offered a temporary reprieve from sound, both in cities and in oceans, giving scientists a once-in-a-lifetime (we hope) chance to study the sudden onset of quiet. The lockdown …
On a longlist packed with surprises and debuts, chosen from 162 novels, Mantel is up against major literary names including US author Anne Tyler, picked for Redhead by the Side of the Road, …
"We don't have to remain in our Brady Bunch squares. It was great to walk by and see the dancers sweating and breathing. We still do that. We are all choreographers now. People are starting …
Controversies broke out on a few fronts this week. " NPR
David Balzer: "Here, I want to go beyond critiquing institutional messaging and superficial pledges towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. Instead, I want to use my experience as the form…
Controlled Digital Lending's essential position is that it's fine for a nonprofit like the archive or a library to scan a print copy of a book it owns, then lend that digital scan out on a o…
With the ongoing COVID epidemic making travel to its New Hampshire campus impractical at best, the no-longer-a-colony has invited this summer's eight fellows to a four-week virtual residency…
"William Carden, who has been the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theatre since 2007, will step down from his position. A member of EST since 1978, Carden will continue w…