The reactions of AMC and other chains to NBCUniversal's touting of a streaming-only release of the movie Trolls: World Tour is head-shakingingly weird. Almost everyone is stuck at home " and…
Intimacy comes from much more than the sound design for sex scenes, intense though they may be in Hulu's 12-part Normal People. The music throughout the series, as with other audio queues, i…
"It is a documentary not about the coronavirus, but about the intimate experience of the confinement that is obviously transformed into a film with dramatic, comical moments, especially touc…
Choreographer Paul Taylor once wrote of McGehee, "She is basically a lyric dancer but she can turn into a spark-ejecting demonette when cast in dramatic roles." She taught the Graham techniq…
Photographer Robin Schwartz is used to quarantine, having dealt with being isolated during cancer treatments, but it's only intensified lately. Luckily, her subjects are the same as ever: He…
The concert hall was empty; the musicians were greatly reduced in number and sitting far from each other; they wore masks backstage and were tested before the event. "Though the seating arra…
There's literally nothing to report for the box office this week of 2020, so why not go back in history and see what was going on 98 years ago, during the first year of box office reporting?…
Jonas ran the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in his career, emphasizing "bold interpretive approaches to the great yet elusive and multilayered operas of the past." And …
Perry (The Essex Serpent) couldn't even go into her study at first; books seemed items of contempt. But: "Recently I have concluded that all this amounts to a kind of failure of courage. As …
The dancers rehearsed at home and performed on streets and beside canals. "I like this project because we can show what we want to do, and what we're waiting to do again. … Art, right now,…
"We have all sometimes taken opera, and opera houses, and opera singers, for granted. No longer." " The New York Times
Serge Alain Nitegeka can't travel even when there's not a global pandemic: He lives in South Africa, but he was born in Rwanda, and his family fled during the massacres in 1994. So for an ex…
Might there be a massive shift in the cultural zeitgeist " and might New York not be quite such a playground for millionaires, billionaires, and real estate firms anymore? If so, the arts wi…
What timing: "It was an exuberant, whirlwind stretch for Jader Bignamini in late January, when the young conductor was unveiled as new music director for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra." Now…
Those who signed the appeal to the government include Rufus Wainwright, Anish Kapoor, and Simon Callow. The letter calls "for urgent funding for creative organisations and professionals who,…
Even though it's hard to teach hula online " first the hands, then the feet, then the body, on Zoom calls " one instructor says it's "giving us an opportunity to see each other, 'he alo h…
The alt-right troll army has found, and targeted, the author of a book about abuse. She says, "I knew the book needed to be written " but I didn't know it needed to be written this badly. Th…
The staff want to more info, and they want to see more sacrifices from the folks at the top. "Although the federal loan received by the museum may offer some relief, SFMOMA's workers continu…
Axel Sheffler is used to being alone at home as he works on illustrating books. But his publisher had heard from a teacher friend that kids weren't doing as well. The result: A swiftly publi…
That is, until its Buddhist monk owner developed dementia and decided to let his collection go. " The Observer (UK)
Aside from drive-ins, we can't go to the movies. A trickle are coming out online, but "if you thought choosing a film at the multiplex was difficult, finding that same new movie in the curre…
The Oscar nominee (for Stand and Deliver) is quarantining alone and promoting a virtual film festival in Los Angeles. Of his friends who are Latino actors, he says, "We want to be known as A…
A virtual reality piece released last October seemed like a wild, enjoyable experiment at the time. But now, the piece (which, not incidentally, is keeping at least 18 actors employed) "show…
Please immediately click on this link. Just do. " The Hollywood Reporter
Yes, 50 is a lot, but we're already in week *checks notes* a zillion of this lockdown and no live theatre, so might as well get started, right? " The Stage (UK)