Friday, March 20, 2020
Young Jean Lee, Lauren Gunderson, and Jaclyn Backhaus are among those who have begun leading playwriting lessons and seminars on the web since coronavirus sent almost everyone home. Gunderso…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"The idea came from the dancer Miranda Quinn: The opening sequence of The Brady Bunch popped into her head. 'How they're all in little squares,' she said. 'That made me think of how we're al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"[She] won the top directing prize at the Cesars in 2000 for her movie Venus Beauty Institute, a romantic comedy starring Nathalie Baye and Audrey Tautou that recounts the quest for fulfillm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]A very few cinemas in far-flung cities are back in business already (though few customers are coming just yet), and the major cities are making plans. The big problem: nothing exciting to sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Michael Brodeur: "The plan was to spend my first week … seeing concerts and shaking hands. (Just typing that makes me want to sanitize.) The goal was to go big," with five performances in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]"The festival made the news public on Thursday, saying that 'several options are [being] considered in order to preserve its running' " its preferred one being a shift of the festival to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"To take Cannes out of the equation for even one year would have massive reverberations throughout the world of international cinema. It is, simply put, the most important film event of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"Organisers will struggle to recoup the large infrastructure costs they have already committed to, as 70% of the festival's income comes from ticket and book sales on site. In a statement on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The company will pay its chorus members, orchestral musicians, and unionized backstage staff through the end of March but maintain their health insurance. Upper-level administration employee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The orchestra musicians voted [unanimously] to take a '10 percent cut of our weekly salary for the next seven weeks that had been canceled,' said [violist Amy] Hess. 'Then the dollar amount…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
"With his tousled dark hair, roguish smile and boxer's physique, Mr. Whitman was a half-century staple of film and television, appearing in studio blockbusters and John Wayne epics as well a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"The pandemic has clarified the dark bargain of our internet-connected devices: We look to them to protect our bodies and soothe our nerves, and in return, we hand over our minds." " The New…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"Mobile County, the city of Mobile and the Alabama Historical Commission say work will begin 'immediately' on an Africatown Heritage House that will feature artifacts from the slave ship Clo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]The projections were included in a letter senior management sent to department heads on Wednesday. The museum has a three-phase plan that includes likely job losses, cutting operating costs,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world, instructed moderators to suppress posts created by users deemed too ugly, poor, or d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"IATSE reported Tuesday that the COVID-19-related production suspensions snd event cancellations have resulted in the loss of 120,000 jobs held by its 150,000 members. A large number of thos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"In a surprise announcement today, Macmillan abandoned its controversial embargo on new release e-books in libraries, effective this week. 'There are times in life when differences should be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"In a sign that American theaters are desperately worried about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, playwrights are reporting that they have been asked to return payments for productions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"We polled contributors from around the country to put together a very subjective and not at all comprehensive list." In addition to Best Dance Theater Work and Best Dance Film, there are su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Though Atlanta's … bustling professional theaters staged 187 productions last year, only 22 were by playwrights of color." Jesse Green went there to talk to black actors and directors, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:31AM[SHARE]"They need to rethink the Temple of Beauty branding they've coasted on from the start. They need to acknowledge the often conflicted relationship between aesthetics and ethics. They need to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"The Glyndebourne Festival has announced that … instead of opening on May 21, 2020, it will instead open on July 14, 2020. As such, any performances scheduled prior to July 14 will be canc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]With my lens as an advocate for community engagement, I think of the many (many, many) people who have told me they just don't have time to devote to making connections with their communitie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32AM[SHARE]Last Wednesday, the Met invited me to the press preview for the 150th anniversary show Making the Met; Thursday, the museum announced it was closing. On Mar. 11, the Association of Art Museu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Writers Bloc, a series of talks, readings and discussions, pulls in sold-out crowds for the likes of Rachel Maddow, Cory Booker, Joy Reid, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pod Save America guys. Ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]The organization Sama for All, founded by Syrian refugee Souad Nanaa, prepares displaced persons in France to find jobs in museums and cultural organizations. The six-month program teaches t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Shows are drastically scaling down their studio time, production teams are increasingly shifting to remote workflows, public radio stations are postponing their pledge drives, and independe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"When I first met Inigo Philbrick in 2012, he was all of 25, looked an awful lot like Justin Timberlake, and … I was immediately smitten, professionally and personally; Philbrick was sharp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]There are a lot of small regional organizations on this list who are stepping up despite finances that are precarious even in good times, but the only big-name company there is Houston Grand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]In addition to being the handsome announcer and sketch actor on Burnett's show and the foil to Lynda Carter's superheroine, he was the first-ever centerfold for Playgirl magazine and, later …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Marina Harss talks to four dancers from across the country about how they're staying in shape and in touch despite being more or less trapped in their houses. " The New York Times
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