6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
The National Theatre of Greenland stages three to five productions per year, adapting material ranging from traditional lore to contemporary Greenlandic literature to Shakespeare, at its hom…
I never sit around pining for what might have been. What was and is, after all, have both proved to be wholly satisfying. But when you get to be my age " I turned sixty-four today " you can'…
Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis were tenor saxophone masters whose collaborations made them among the instrument's most celebrated players. Their "new" album is titled OW! after one…
We won't share here what comic Ari Shaffir put on Twitter about the late basketball star (it's in the article), but it got him dropped by his agent, criticized by his colleagues, and threate…
The group is called Cast Iron Entertainment, and includes Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and actors Sterling K. Brown, Glenn Davis, Brian Tyree Henry, Jon …
"The culture secretary, Nicky Morgan, suggested the television licence" " an annual fee, currently £154.50 ($201.68), charged every household and business with a television " "was an incr…
Robert Trevino, music director of the Basque National Orchestra in Spain, writes about the restaurant meal that gave him the idea, how he and the orchestra staff planned and marketed the ser…
Dead mud wasps, in fact. The ancient artists who painted the Gwion figures in Western Australia's Kimberley region used iron oxide pigments, which have no organic material and can't be carbo…
Claude McKay set aside his novel Romance in Marseille in 1933 because his editor thought it too shocking to sell: its protagonist is a West African double amputee with a prostitute lover, an…
"In his autobiography, Taylor said he had asked Balanchine if there was any way it should be performed. His reply: 'Is like fly in glass of milk, yes?'" City Ballet soloist Jovani Furlan lea…
Some non-binary actors, and audience members, are asking the Oscars, Emmys, and other awards to eliminate separate actor and actress categories " and they're pointing to one set of awards th…
Hands began his career as a co-founder of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, and, after his well-regarded 13 years as RSC artistic director, spent 18 years in Wales at the helm of Clywd Thea…
"An initial batch of nearly three dozen pieces from the 2018-19 season are now available for listening on the orchestra's website " a number that will grow over time. … The number of perfo…
The idea of this Black History Month initiative was to take 12 children's and young-adult classic titles " among them Frankenstein, Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, and Romeo and Julie…
"[His] distinctive cleft chin, raspy voice and highly charged dramatic energy whose starring roles in Spartacus, Lust For Life, Champion, Ace in the Hole and Paths of Glory helped him become…
Daniel Radcliffe's sense of physical theatre is magnificent, but, finally, the evening belongs to Alan Cumming. " Paul Levy
"For most of their history, these companies scoffed at traditional media. Can't measure it, can't convert viewers into customers, not enough real-time data. Yet here are the 21st century's m…
If expanding our base to new communities is necessary, we need an appropriate metaphor for the process. I think I've finally stumbled upon something workable. " Doug Borwick
Said the NSO's executive director, "The combination of warnings from the State Department and the CDC, and our flights were canceled; there was no way to get there and no way to get home." T…
For decades, Tony Cerda Park in Pomona was desolate, dilapidated, and dangerous. Last summer, artist Joe Ded painted a mural to honor the park's namesake, a longtime leader of local Native A…
A former child star, Reynolds directed many episodes of classic 1960s American sitcoms and went on to create and produce three of the best-known and well-regarded series of the '70s: Room 22…
"A top editor at Simon & Schuster who assembled a roster of literary heavyweights, … Ms. Mayhew focused on popular histories and biographies as well as the journalistic genre known as …
"Over the past five years, Poland's art institutions have increasingly become a vehicle for the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party's cultural reform efforts. … [There's now] a nationw…
"Where did all this art come from? How is it that a city where beauty and color have been largely suppressed for decades by poverty, and by the oppression or indifference of successive gover…
No less than dance or fight choreography, intimacy choreography consists of specific, repeatable movements, and intimacy directors find desexualized language to use with actors (as opposed t…
