Today, some love for the Second City, on the anniversary of Chicago's worst disaster ever in terms of loss of life. You might think such stories out of our wheelhouse, but as with similar…
COVID-19 is changing the way we live. Panic buying, goods shortages, lockdown " these are new experiences for most of us. But it's standard fare for the protagonists of young adult (YA) post…
Global downloads for Plague Inc, a 2012 video game that encourages players to spread a disease around the world before a cure is found, increased by an annual 123% from January to March this…
What were you doing in mid-March, when the realization that this pandemic was going to derail the world hit you? Was it like other moments before disaster struck? Anndee Hochman considers.
What timing: "It was an exuberant, whirlwind stretch for Jader Bignamini in late January, when the young conductor was unveiled as new music director for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra." Now…
EgoPo Classic Theater relocated successfully to Philadelphia after hurricane Katrina destroyed its former home in New Orleans. Artistic director Lane Savadove talks to Jill Ivey about surviv…
However difficult things may be once the coronavirus is under control, they likely won't be as bad as in Germany just after World War II. Cologne Cathedral had been hit 14 times by Allied bo…
In a land before Land Before Time, before O.J. Simpson led the LAPD on a sluggishly slow chase in a white bronco and instead ran headfirst into Towering Infernos as they burst into flame and…
★★★★ Theater documentarians Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are in top form
The post Coal Country: 2010 Mining Disaster Stunningly Mined appeared first on New York Stag…
Michael Billington: "A decade described as a manageable catastrophe saw an explosion in theatre, even if artists didn't always get paid. You can see the effects today in that money is tight …
A new study published recently in the journal Geoarchaeology shows that there was more than political intrigue at play. A water reservoir critical for large-scale agriculture in the Koh Ker …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 2:36pm on February 27, 2020☆⚑
No one is arguing that theatre artists don't deserve to be paid or shouldn't be treated well. As Susie Medak, managing director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, pointed out, there's simply a f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:36pm on February 25, 2020☆⚑
"Although it is theoretically 'points-based', the reality is that it will be impossible to accrue enough points with a salary below £25,600 (without a PhD) unless the role is on the short…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:54pm on February 21, 2020☆⚑
In the year 2020 when there are SO MANY movies and, with Netflix and Amazon entering the Oscar conversation, no excuse not to watch them, people should feel more invested in these awards tha…
"Genuinely, I think the internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation," he says. "I think it would be very helpful for us to see it as a disaster, see it as something lik…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:24pm on November 11, 2019☆⚑
