Who decided messing with Edna O'Brien was a good idea? Ian Parker of The New Yorker, that's who. But "after a complicated relationship with her home country " in 2015 President Michael Higgi…
Idled theatres can't earn money, can't meet grant requirement deadlines, and have nothing they can do with huge sets or out-of-work actors or stage crews. It's not OK. "O'Gara conceded that …
Podcast from home, of course. (Or work in video games or animation " those industries, perhaps unsurprisingly, are doing just fine.) " Los Angeles Times
Patchett isn't actually alone because her co-owner and staff are still coming in, carefully distanced from each other, to work so they can ship books to all of those desperately wanting new …
Are books therapeutic? Is reading itself, with the concentration it requires, even possible now? Yes, but make it social. "The experience has been, by turns, surprisingly insightful and pred…
At least in one West Coast city " though truly, everywhere in the U.S. " "It's pretty grim. … Everyone is experiencing the worst." " Oregon Artswatch
Johnson choreographed the film adaptation of The Wiz and won a Tony for his choreography for Purlie. He performed in both stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, created works for the Alv…
When the Archbishop of Turin, Cesare Nosiglia, announced the church would livestream the Shroud, things in the world of the mysterious sacred artifact got a bit weird. "Whether Nosiglia know…
No, that's not different from the U.S. or Nigeria, but Bollywood stars, directors, production companies, dancers and everyone else are trying to figure out what to do next. "Given the specul…
Baillie "personified the Bay Area experimental cinema of the 1960s as an independent filmmaker and consummate 16-millimeter craftsman whose most extraordinary movie is a single panning shot.…
No Lincoln Center Out of Doors, no Mostly Mozart Festival, no summer programming at all. " NPR
When should Hollywood start up again " and can it fix all of this? "Until now, lackadaisical hygiene has largely been accepted as part of the job. While production was shut down in an …
No matter how bad the technology may be, actors gonna act; singers gonna sing; and a theatre-loving public may get some benefit from the many performance livestreams. " BBC
Organists and cantors prepare to play for live streams instead of live services. On the other hand, sometimes that's a bigger crowd: "Fewer than 600 people would tune in to watch the cathedr…
Rodriguez, a writer, actor, and former associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group, died of cancer on Friday. "'Diane was an incredibly disciplined artist, with equal talent as a wri…
The writer prompted the National Arts Center of Canada to launch virtual book tours for authors with new books out during the pandemic shutdown. Authors are "'really pinched,' Atwood said in…
Whenever that is, of course. Some movie theatre owners expect that they will: "We strongly believe there will be a rush to cinemas to see all kinds of movies because people will just want to…
And now it wants to win over its critics by being honest about how many of its artifacts had tainted histories " or were entirely fake. " The New York Times
Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven was much recommended in the coronavirus' early days " but even she thought people shouldn't be reading it right now. Her new novel is about the 2008 cr…
Sebastian Barry goes for the real classics: "It seems uncanny that there is a radiant book for these times, although it was written 2,000 years ago." " The Guardian (UK)
Why not? It's National Poetry Month, after all, and poems can refocus the mind, bringing it gently back to focus. You might even try memorizing a poem or two. " The Atlantic
Bosworth, who was part of the Actors Studio with Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroes, gave up acting to write instead " and write she did, about Diane Arbus, Jane Fonda, Montgomery Clift, Marl…
That's right, it's not a portrait: It's a doortrait. " The Guardian (UK)
But this year, another plague broke the record. "This year's Passion Play, scheduled to premiere in May and run through the summer, had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus. An epic…
"You're a pony; you're a firecracker; you're a shape-shifter; you're using your bookshelf as a stabilizer for butt wiggling. Given humanity's terminal uncertainty now, I feel particularly ma…