Friday, May 31, 2019
The musicians have been playing without a contract since mid-January, and the main issue in negotiations has been whether to shorten the orchestra's annual season to 40 weeks from 52, which …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Although Redbone's pop-defying predilection for seemingly antiquated musical styles of the '20s and '30s made him the unlikeliest of stars, he became one anyway." " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"After a successful pilot that saw [Scottish Ballet] work with nine schools in Glasgow and Perth, the Safe to Be Me project will be rolled out to primary schools across Scotland in 2019. So …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]No sooner had I started to idly wonder what's happening in one of my favorite former hometowns than Terri Hinte sent a message reminding me of a new album by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
"As what's known in Broadway parlance as a 'swing,' [Angelo] Soriano is paid to master a head-spinning 14 roles, though he is never certain he will go onstage in any of them. With … [injur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"If it seems lately there's been a surfeit of Black playwrights tackling race onstage in formally inventive ways, it can be partly traced to Drury's work at the beginning of the decade." " A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Says the author of Fire and Fury and Siege: Trump Under Fire, "I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter. And Washington reporters, they do a great job. They do their job. I approa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"I think what appeared after in newspapers and magazines can't be justified by what I said online … It was a weird, interesting experience and it felt like there was a certain karma that I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"For the first generation in U.S. history to do worse than their parents, Oh, the Places You'll Go is just right: It celebrates young adults' dreams of escaping from home in the warm embrace…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Keya Morgan, who was captured and detained in Phoenix, "is facing felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Said Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, "I don't see how it's practical for us to continue to shoot there [if the law takes effect] … I think many people who work for us will not want to work t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"On Wednesday, the BMA revealed plans to send an updated version of [a] 1937 questionnaire to about 300 local schools, nonprofits, and other organizations. The results will inform future exh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"Burnout now appears in the [WHO handbook] ICD-11's section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]For the retiring dancer, who's about to become executive director of Festival Ballet Providence, it was a definite choice: she got a degree and interned in Boston Ballet's administrative off…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]The 57-year-old Gatti, fired from Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra last year for sexual misconduct, has been named chief conductor of the Bologna-based chamber orchestra founded by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Switzerland's highest court has rejected Italy's request for the return of an oil painting attributed by some to Leonardo Da Vinci, ruling no Swiss laws were broken when the work was brough…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Video game culture in general in India is relatively new. So when PUBG (official name PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) skyrocketed in popularity in the months after its release, a nervous back…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]The two-time Pulitzer winner (for Ruined and Sweat) adapted her 2004 play Intimate Apparel into a chamber opera with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon (The Grapes of Wrath). The piece, part of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Stressing the enormous financial benefits that the city's festivals bring to Scotland, a member of the Scottish Parliament is arguing that the increasingly frequent, seemingly arbitrary deni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Just last week, L.A. MoCA announced that it will eliminate admission charges; earlier this year, MoCA Cleveland did the same thing, while Toronto's AGO made itself free for visitors under 25…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Norman Ogue Mustill (1931-2013), longtime friend and collaborator, was a little-known master collagist. " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Rachel Chavkin, director of Hadestown: "This gets now into very old Greek theater, but the idea of catharsis and working through something together and the tragedy as a crucible that the aud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Emphasis on the one. "For Webster, new nationhood provided unique opportunities for language reform " opportunities that would fade quickly, he warns, if not grabbed before America's languag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Ballet might have been considered camp from the start in its original French context," allows Madison Mainwaring. (But then, so could most things at Louis XIV's Versailles.) "If there is a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Brian Yorkey: "As the Los Angeles Times recently reported, a new study using Centers for Disease Control data claims to show a correlation between 13 Reasons Why and an increase in teen suic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The original statue, modeled on the Statue of Liberty, was crushed by a tank when the People's Liberation Army wiped out the multi-day protest in Beijing on June 4, 1989. But every so often …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Until it went bankrupt in 2015 after its founder was prosecuted for money laundering and fraud, the French company Aristophil held the world's largest private collection of historic manuscri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Under his direction, Random House expanded into the world's largest general-interest publisher, increasing revenue from $40 million in 1966, when he was named president, to more than $800 m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"The country boasts the highest number of UNESCO world heritage sites in the world, but according to EU statistics is second-last in Europe for public funding of culture. As a consequence, p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The 71-year-old conductor, formerly music director of the Seattle Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, will take over in Palm Beach this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"An array of Chinese artists and writers, performers and filmmakers " all up to no good by the standards of Beijing's morality police " [are] hungrily taking in the many crazy, dissolute sub…
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