There aren't many in England, even in the capital city " and it took two years to raise the funds for this one. "Price's latest statue will be one of very few in Britain of black female subj…
It's hard to settle on a bop when there's no one to bop with and no place to dance to that bop. "This level of turnover has not been seen since 1990, the year before Nielsen SoundSc…
OK, we just miss it. A lot. "It's a different absence than the loss of indoor theater, partly because of how fondly we cherish summer traditions. But as the director Anne Bogart said in a ph…
The author of Room says, "I generally go out of my way not to be timely or to try and capture cultural moments. It's very peculiar "- Irish Times
Museums will not open on Monday, or anytime soon, says Governor Cuomo. "We're not going to have any indoor activity in malls or cultural institutions. … We'll continue to monitor that situ…
Uhm. British government regulations are that singers and musicians stand three meters apart, or (for singers) back-to-back, or side-by-side (in other words, not in rows on risers). "If the c…
Bloodletting was a normal treatment at the time, but not the best practice for someone who probably had pneumonia, or so a new study says. " The Guardian (UK)
You'd think living during a plague (The Stand, The Walking Dead, Domesday Book) and a time when unmarked federal agents are kidnapping people off the street (Little Brother, Hunger Games) mi…
London: "Emptied out by coronavirus during lockdown, the City was the perfect place for socially distanced, government-mandated walks. And beneath its streets are the bodies of innumerable p…
Despair about the state of the world, a little rosé, and voilà : "Orlean sent 27 entertaining, if typo-infused, tweets (read: "I do r e we. Know who is I my house") that careen from th…
While Spain's figurehead monarchs went to the movies in Madrid, the Catalan government shut down Barcelona theatres and other mass gatherings (though it's awfully hard to shut down Barcelona…
When you have to ask yourself, "Am I actually dying to see this movie?" it might be too early for the theatres to reopen. "Infections are still going up in many states, and there is no feder…
A new streaming documentary does a lot more than set jazz dance into context " it asks the ballet and dance communities to restructure what they consider "foundational." " Dance Magazine
Why? Well … drive-in movies and a summer that's full of actual horror as well. "It turns out that inexpensive horror flicks, which have been part of the Hollywood ecosystem as long as cine…
For the new Beethoven piece, 323 musicians and choir members will perform remotely " and during Proms, most performances will be from years past (though there's a faint hope some final perfo…
It's not the language teachers, especially the English-language teachers from places like the Philippines, who are getting paid poverty wages. And what of apps? Uh … "Language 'learners' o…
Tucci began her career in Italy in the 1950s and went on to international acclaim, including in the 1960s at the Metropolitan Opera. "An unaffected and subtly compelling actress, she was bes…
Truly embarrassing themselves again, major studios released 118 films in 2019 and, well, they all got low grades from GLAAD. "Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, United Artists Releasing and Univ…
Vogel isn't saying this lightly. She started a play reading series in the middle of a pandemic. "The reason that I started Bard at the Gate is because I have asthma and diabetes. I was actua…
Inspectors suspect arson for the fire that "broke the main stained glass windows between the two towers of the 15th-century cathedral, and destroyed the organ." " Yahoo News (AP)
What's safe now? Uh, mannequins. "We've had a lot of strange looks and questions like, Do you really want to do this? … But everyone is game. They are getting their first latex kiss." " Th…
Let's be honest about LA's Upright Citizens Brigade and the Groundlings, say BIPOC comedians: "The self-perpetuating white power structure fostered by these institutions led to the belittlin…
The actor, who attended USC on a football scholarship in the 1920s, said some intensely racist things in a 1971 interview. So why did an exhibit honoring him go up at USC's School of Cinemat…
The group "We See You, White American Theater" released a 29-page letter of demands that "would amount to a sweeping restructuring of the theater ecosystem in America." Indeed, they say, it'…
Author Candice Carty-Williams (she of the hilarious, sexy, sad, and moving 2019 novel Queenie) says that Michaela Coel's new series is the first (and perhaps only) screen depiction of what i…