We mourn together for our lost months and years. "Every day the theatre is dark, an opportunity for transformation is lost"yes, for the performers, remaking themselves so completely that, on…
With Chita Rivera, André De Shields, and an array of singers and dancers, the pop-up on the anniversary of Broadway's shutdown gave paying work to performers who haven't seen much of it in …
The guidelines are stringent " each county must cycle completely out of "colors" of COVID-19 infections before indoor theatre can open, and they have to cycle way lower rates before outdoor …
Basically, the pandemic has changed the performing arts audience. "Fans have had access to virtual theater from all over the world. Some venues have expanded their audiences far beyond what'…
The director of a play in tech rehearsal says of the theatre building, abandoned a year ago as the pandemic swept the world, "I walked in, it was very quiet and I found myself touching every…
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…
Some of the change is due to a worldwide audience. Netflix and other streaming services "have a certain sensibility that they want to see in the kind of narratives that they are promoting on…
Small arts organizations got caught up in the massive trawler net of Facebook's rush to react to a new Australian law meant to generate funding for news organizations. "By the close of busin…
Juliet Ames couldn't resist decorating her first salt box, back in December. Then she got permission from the city. "In the past two months, more than 100 of the decorated salt boxes have ap…
Pretty much, yes. "Downtown Christchurch isn't empty because of COVID. It's empty because of twin catastrophes: Ten years ago an earthquake leveled much of the city"and then the local and na…
Sometimes, virtual isn't going to cut it " and certainly won't replace "the interstitial socializing, the sidewalk conversations on the way to the next bar, the hungover confessionals of the…
Peter Quinn, VFX artist, has been making homemade special effects movies, and posting them online. "The whole quarantine and lockdown aspect, I find that useful because it means I've got all…
Looks like the mystery's been solved " and the writer was (drumroll) … the artist himself. "The text, 'Could only have been painted by a madman,' isn't large enough for most people to noti…
To wit: Cyril and Ruth Harvey, "who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property on the board); their friends, the Joneses, lived on…
Di Modica was a "Sicilian-born sculptor best known for Charging Bull, 3.5 tons of bronze belligerence that he illegally deposited in Lower Manhattan one night in 1989." But this wasn't the f…
DalÃ, art historians say, was "very deliberate" in his art " and sketches of unfinished works also show how he combined complex mathematical calculations with artistic license in his fini…
As the leader of "NYPopsUp" explains, "This is what I like to call 'social music.' … You can use music to minister to so many sectors of society." This summer, that means 100 days of scatt…
The disclaimer, which runs on 18 episodes of the show (re-relased on Disney+ last week): "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotyp…
The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles is the largest Black-majority orchestra in the country. But it doesn't want to be alone. The ICYO founder's mantra "is that there needs to be an…
At issue: Whether the comedian Mike Ward harmed a disabled teenager by mocking his disability, calling him "ugly," saying that the youth would die soon and if he didn't, the comedian would d…
The museum in Washington, DC, founded by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, was a sensation when it opened as a museum of modern art, and it's been a refuge and inspiration since, including, at t…
A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or two under my belt and then…
True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours compared to new technology companies. In both cases,…
Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, was 93 when she died earlier this month. She "began giving lessons at age 14 in war-torn Romania. She did not stop for nearly 80 years. Toward the end, ada…
Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion and the adoption of an…