Friday, October 19, 2018
The 21st publication is just out and reports the lowest age attendance since 2000, a significant bit of hope for Broadway's long-term health. During the 2017"2018 season, the average age of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]“Certainly American culture is different from European culture. So I had expected the life of a theatre artist in Paris or London to be more refined, somehow easier, and at the same ti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Speaking at the Theatres Trust Conference 2018 in London, Emma Stenning said: "We can't be subsidy-reliant charities any longer. We have to look at our buildings as our principle assets. We …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]“I would say two things are happening: in Canada, structurally, we all sort of operate in a similar manner"because of funding, because of Canada Council, because of history. We have th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PM[SHARE]Lyn Gardner: “While everyone may in theory have the right to failure in theatre, I believe we need to look much harder at who gets the opportunity to fail upwards. We’ve talked a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The total amount of investment needed in theatre buildings, according to the survey, is likely to be closer to £1 billion. This takes into account planned major works outside of the theat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
"We are simultaneously more connected than we ever have been and more disconnected. The way we communicate is through screens, which are essentially prosceniums" like the traditional stage t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
Mary John was part of the nascent regional theatre movement, which was led in large part by women: Margo Jones opened Theatre '47 in Dallas in 1947, Nina Vance opened Houston's Alle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
The company announced Thursday that acclaimed Canadian director Weyni Mengesha will become its artistic director, starting in January. Paired with the hiring of UK-based arts administrator E…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]Some theatres have moved away from education and solely into community engagement. How are "education" and "community engagement" defined by each theatre? What are the similarities and diffe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
For a New Yorker, the real surprise was to be found in the far-flung spaces " like the Den " that make up Chicago's "storefront" theater movement. Especially in the northern part of the city…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
"The whole idea that you have a medium that is based on rapid response, and yet has lack of nuance built into its form, is very difficult, and is leading to a very binary culture, which I th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]If you think about it, the doctor- or surgeon-patient encounter is like improv, requiring two characters, in role, to build a scene together. Improvisers must think creatively and adapt in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]At a time when internet bookings were beginning to become more popular, here was a way to get people to come to the theatre box office to buy tickets. Who doesn't like a queue outside the th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 7, 2018
Surveying the acres of white faces (and mostly greying or balding heads) in the West End, it is hardly surprising that theatres have traditionally deliberately catered to them. But what happ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
OSF declined to name any of the jobs or people that were let go, but issued a statement saying "This summer's smoke and air quality issues (led) to significant financial losses … These…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
On Wednesday, the theater introduced "smart caption glasses" that display dialogue on the lenses as actors speak. The glasses can be used without charge for the play "War Horse" and for the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
After an investigation, the Old Vic said it had received 20 complaints of inappropriate behavior by Spacey, who led the theater between 2004 and 2015. It said most of the alleged victims had…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:23PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Prior to the autumn of 1968, any reference to homosexuality, bisexuality and nude performances would have been considered too outrageous to be shown on a British stage. Even something as see…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
In many ways a theatre can be compared to a community center"both are public places to gather, to socialize, to learn, to be entertained. Now some theatres are intentionally taking up the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
One of the things that copyright law allows some courts to do in the nineteenth century is to essentially exert control over what gets put onstage, because in theory, if you say this has no …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]"I am not at all shy about how much personally I love it as a show. But for me, understanding what's problematic about it helps me appreciate it more and helps me understand more what is pos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
It's easy to say what a bad translation is. The ones that are accidentally jagged like the person wielding the scissors was drunk. The ones where someone has misunderstood the original, or p…
SOURCE: scroll.in at 01:12PM[SHARE]The absence of joy and pleasure"anhedonia"has, in its way, become a popular issue in the wake of the disease depression. A quarter of us are affected by it over the course of a lifetime, var…
SOURCE: nautil.us at 01:12PM[SHARE]Why does the classical music industry only look to its own professionals to solve its problems? I know musical enthusiasts whose opinions are no less informed or apposite than my own and wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2018
The event marked the end of to the international investigation of black-market antiquities and the evangelical Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby and collectors of biblical material who…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PM[SHARE]In our research " and in clinical psychology more broadly " absolutist thinking is viewed as an unhealthy thinking style that disrupts emotion-regulation and hinders people from achiev…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 06:36PM[SHARE]The critic must reconcile history and poetry. A poem is a product of its time just as much"if the poem's any good"as a triumph over its time. Many poems are so familiar we have forgotten how…
SOURCE: www.newcriterion.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]At some point in the future, could an A.I. company manufacture something akin to a neural bridge, allowing ordinary people to occasionally share their experiences? Maybe. Elon Musk recently …
SOURCE: slate.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]Call me old-fashioned, but I believe a standing ovation should be a precious thing saved only for that rare occasion where something is so extraordinary and superlative that you can't help b…
SOURCE: www.houstoniamag.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]If Sotheby's were a hospital, his department would be "the E.R. or a clinic." One analysis is like an M.R.I., and another is like a CT scan. He described analyses as "noninvasive." Mr. Marti…
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