15,321 stories by "Artsjournal"
"They're our holy fools, who " even when no one is watching " keep the art's sacred fires burning. Rehearsal isn't so much a preparation-to-show as it is a kind of religious practice " as en…
Weirder than ever before, no doubt. As the voters fill out their ballots this week and next, none of the shows they're considering have been onstage for a year, and they can't vote in a give…
"There are so many benefits to all this stuff, It's going to make theatre more accessible. It's going to help tackle the issue of diversity. It's going to enable us to tell stories in comple…
"This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, 'Hello, this is an opportunity to just stop. Everybody just stop. Can we really not do that?' …
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form. It's not quite theatre in that it's video and not onst…
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread of COVID variants, and that …
"The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer's imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most often obsessing about …
The protocols these countries have developed the past year to permit some live performances depend greatly on the magnitude of the pandemic and the efforts by government to contain it. South…
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to present just a dozen or so performanc…
Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug " so Olaf and Elsa flash each other peace s…
"'I am calling you for a poetic consultation,' said a warm voice on the telephone. 'It all starts with a very simple question: How are you?' Since March, almost 15,000 people around the worl…
"Across the country, and beyond its borders, many theaters say new audiences for their streaming offerings has been an unexpected silver lining " one that could have ramifications for the in…
"In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion." (It is the mother tongue of nearly 20 million people in the Turkish Rep…
"I've debated different scenarios in my life about "What is Native?" And that is like the million-dollar question, at least within Indigenous communities at this moment. There doesn't seem t…
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China. With the Chinese Communist Party e…
"True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as simple as that. For there are not only 'brute facts' (eg whether Germany …
The President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra. " Aaron Dworkin
Someone's calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice today is a shell's, of a conch from a Pyrenees cave, assigned as…
The [agreement is that] the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets to pay them for content. The government…
"A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo " realistic genitalia included " is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age to 17,300 years ago with a…
"The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued at €4.5m (£3.9m), for the National …
A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled "American Theater: For Whites Only?" that inspired the Ford Foundation to fund the creation of the Negr…
In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, "It's been brutal for us. We're basically using the fir…
Staging a full-length performance digitally "would break the bank," says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn't really like streamed dance much. "I'm embracing it because there's noth…
Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. "[They] are not intended as sweeping monuments to the historical moment, but…
