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What has interested me right now are online videos in which dancers, sequestered in their homes, keep in shape. Their charm lies in how the dedicated, witty performers interact with their lo…
Difficult times are a form of truth serum. They force clear priorities. For me, that's meant reaching out nationally to offer, at no charge, a webinar for nonprofit leaders: "CRISIS ENGAGEME…
Among the key elements of the proposal outlined by President Macron are a full-year extension of unemployment insurance for gig workers in the performing arts (known as "intermittents du spe…
I fear that the rampaging growth of income (and most other) inequality is going to be a raw wound on the other side of this crisis and that the nonprofit arts industry could be caught up in …
"To continue offering dance despite the pandemic," Melissa Turnage, a dance artist in residence at several hospitals in Birmingham, Alabama, "[has] made DVDs for each of the units she works …
"Cancellations [due to the pandemic] have now been extended from 31 May to 28 June. 'This does not mean theatres will reopen on 29 June,' [the Society of London Theatres] stressed in its sta…
ABS-CBN, for years a target of President Rodrigo Duterte for its reporting, was shut down on May 5 as its broadcast license expired. The network's application to renew, which must be renewed…
"The claims filed by arts groups, from movie theaters to concert halls, have become a particularly intense battleground, in part because the virus ended a primary source of revenue " ticket …
"Decades before Cecil B. DeMille sent horse-drawn chariots thundering through the desert, the world's most famous ballet choreographer created an epic version of Egypt for the stage, and par…
"A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in [the Yaransk Museu…
Jill Lepore traces the history (and prehistory) of "the most extensively researched television program [ever made]" " from the educational and social ideals of its creators (and the entertai…
"Flanked by 20 strings on each side, her fingers coated in rosin, [Ellen] Fullman, 62, walks a central aisle while rubbing the strings lengthwise, conjuring thrumming minimalist drones and q…
"The [Spanish] flu did not transform the American cultural scene, as the new coronavirus threatens to; when the outbreak eased, in 1919, musical life returned swiftly to normal. A columnist …
Artist Sam Winston, as part of his project A Delicate Sight, invited Bernardine Evaristo (co-winner of last year's Booker Prize), Raymond Antrobus (winner of last year's Folio Prize for poet…
"When the playing of his three colleagues " all Austrian exiles " threatened to become too sweet, Lovett could be relied on to bring them back to the right side of good taste with a finely d…
Musicians and their audiences may be physically separated these days, but they're closer emotionally, writes David Patrick Stearns. "The old sense of 'us' and 'them' " each side with its res…
Things are far from perfect north of the border, but overall Canadian artists and organizations say they feel relatively well taken care of, especially when they look south. Kate Brown repor…
"After a decade of spectacular growth, the entertainment conglomerate has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its 14 theme parks (annual attendance: 157 million) delivered record pr…
"In Rousseau's scheme of things, solitude was the natural human state. By stepping outside of society, by distancing oneself from other voices, one was facilitating a return to oneself. But …
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut at age 23 and sang 54 roles there over 42 years, becoming one of the most beloved singers within the company. Perhaps most notable among the many operas…
Carriageworks, Australia's largest arts center devoted to contemporary work, has entered voluntary administration (as it's called there). A statement from a spokesperson said, "The sudden ca…
"Of course, people are doing everything possible to avoid that fate. But fears of folding are, understandably, creating major anxiety right now. To gain some perspective, [we] spoke to a few…
Whitehead received his second fiction Pulitzer for The Nickel Boys; Brown's The Tradition took poetry honors; the biography prize went to Moser's Sontag: Her Life and Work; McDaniel's Sweet …
"[The work,] which debuted last June at Long Beach Opera, … chronicles the racially and politically charged New York trial and conviction of one Latino teenager and four black teens " who …
"Jackson's win marks the first time the committee has awarded a black writer for a musical. … That's particularly poignant given the material itself: a discursive meta-tale about a young, …
