Big Problem For The Arts: Insurers Won't Insure Against Virus Cancellations
"Right now most insurers, if not all, have come out with a virus or communicable disease exclusion that they're putting on their policies." " Reuters
"Right now most insurers, if not all, have come out with a virus or communicable disease exclusion that they're putting on their policies." " Reuters
"School" as we knew it is over " but that doesn't mean learning has to be. Learning is a universal activity across human societies; school as we knew it is a recent, unusual, self-contradict…
If Black lives matter now more than ever, hearing Black liveness in classical music also matters. The alternative is an addiction to exclusion that ends, as addictions often do, in impoveris…
Boris Johnson said arts and culture were the soul of the nation. "They make our country great and are the lynchpin of our world-beating and fast-growing creative industries," the prime minis…
"Hamilton's premiere on such an accessible platform marks a potential for genuine change and improvement in the future. I know that nothing will ever replace the feeling of being in a real-l…
Blockbuster, it turns out, ended up doing a very good job of fighting back against Netflix and might well have won, but it made some fundamental mistakes that ended up dooming its future. " …
Protesters pulled down the status and dragged it to Inner Harbor, where they dumped it. "The Columbus statue was dragged down as people marched across the city Saturday demanding reallocatio…
So you caught the Hamilton addiction, but that's only one streaming performance … where are the Schuyler sisters, where are the soldier boys, where are the generals now? " The New York Tim…
Since 2017, Ms. Canedy, 55, has been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, overseeing a period when the awards have acknowledged an increasingly diverse body of work, including the music…
"We have raised $60m in funding over the past few months," says Peter Gelb. "This has solved the immediate problem of the cancellation of the last weeks of the 2019-20 season and the loss of…
Why? Money. Also, Tom Cruise had a chat with the minister. "We want the industry to bounce back and exempting small numbers of essential cast and crew from quarantine is part of our continue…
The actor's leg was amputated, and he was placed in a medically induced coma for weeks, in an effort to stop the virus. One review of Cordero's performance in A Bronx Tale: "The terrific Mr.…
The "immersive" show had to be adjusted from a walk-in experience in Paris for Covid-19 safety in Toronto. " BBC
That is, Netflix, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, and a series of small grants. "The fund will provide short-term relief to hundreds of theater workers and freelancers across the U.K., and par…
There were LMM handwritten lyrics, a Daveed Diggs improv that added a lot to TJ's character, and oh so much more. " Vulture
Theatre continues, in some ways weird or alarming and in other ways perfectly creative, during the lockdowns, shutdowns, quarantines, and pandemic numbers spikes. " The New York Times
As Isaac Asimov's Foundation series gets shot around the virus in five different countries ("Our main stages are in Europe, in countries that are super safe at the moment," the executive pro…
Khan spent more than 60 years in the film industry. She "was a pioneer, one of the few women working behind the camera at a time when nearly all the technicians were men. She joined the indu…
After months of waffling " and infuriating the arts sectors in the UK " the Tory government finally came through. One playwright: "If this package is as ambitious as it looks, then conversat…
Mr. Morricone scored many popular films of the past 40 years: Édouard Molinaro's "La Cage aux Folles" (1978), Mr. Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982), Mr. De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987)…
Atlanta-based actor Stephanie Peyton: "We're all stuck with this whole COVID thing. And so we have nothing better to do than to be on our social media and see these new videos every day of B…
Well, we can. Some of it. Sometimes, for different price points, from different streamers. Why not all? "Video recording a show is up to individual producers. And they have tended to pass on…
Well, it's an idea, anyway, and far " far " from the worst idea Boris Johnson has proposed. "The devil, though, is in the detail, a territory that Boris Johnson finds notoriously hard to nav…
Reading Ibraham X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning or How to Be an Anti-Racist, or maybe cuddling up to Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors' When They Call You a Terrorist, may be great for…
Frederick Fennell leads the Tokyo-Kosei Wind Orchestra in an undated TV performance of John Philip Sousa's "U.S. Field Artillery March": (This is the latest in a series of arts- and hist…