Wednesday, April 17, 2019
"The two unknown poems were found tucked underneath a photo of a young Du Maurier in a swimming costume standing on rocks, which was part of an archive of more than 40 years of correspondenc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"Participating employers" " those with more than 250 employees, among them Ambassador Theatre Group and Delmont Mackintosh as well as the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the RSC …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Karole Armitage: "Merce did not talk to anyone, ever. He gave no corrections, no communication." Michael Cole: "He never admonished anybody. … We rehearsed completely in silence." Valda Se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]At the Youth America Grand Prix, says founder/artistic director Larissa Saveliev, "You don't have to win to get the prize. The real prizes are the scholarships. And for those, you just have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]So far, it appears that almost all of the major art objects and relics in the cathedral were saved, thanks to a human chain formed during the fire; most will be taken to the Louvre for conse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Research from Arts Council England shows that, in 2016, the arts sector added £10.8 billion to the UK economy, more than farming did. (A similar result in the US was reported last month.)…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]In a newly relevant article brought back from the archives, Jerome Bernard explains that this question has been argued over ever since France legally separated church and state in 1905 " and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Pavel Lungin's Leaving Afghanistan (Russian title Bratstvo, meaning Brotherhood), based on the real-life experience of an officer who went on to become the head of the FSB (the successor to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"One of a very few women in television's executive ranks at the time, [she] oversaw CBS Playhouse in the late 1960s and the PBS series Visions in the 1970s, … offer[ing] writers a platform…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]The American theatre director, now 42, had never run an organization when he took the helm at the then-troubled ENO in 2016. Things appear to have stabilized at the company financially and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wait, what? Yes, a new work in the traditional Cantonese opera format shows a young Donald Trump meeting the Chairman on a trip to China in 1972. The hope is that this piece, titled Trump on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
"The planned 2016 production Nerds has become one of the biggest debacles in New York theater history, spawning a $6 million lawsuit and leaving at least one castmember feeling 'stranded' by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]On March 8, I went to the WoCo Fest, a festival of music by women, and was so radiated with joy that I cancelled plans I had for the next night, and went back again. What made WoCo Fest so j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]It's a small doll, nothing fancy, fashioned in a courtroom to pass the long hours between denunciations. The young servant girl Mary Warren brings it home to the Proctors, gives it to the mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]I was twenty-two when I met Harry Jenks, for many years the ballpark organist for the Kansas City Royals and the first great jazz musician to enter my life. He taught me more than any of my …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Today, Jewish funders' focus is primarily on Jewish engagement " whether through Birthright Israel or the study of Jewish texts" " and donations for Jewish arts groups are simply drying up.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"To settle a legal dispute, the nonprofit foundation that supported public television in Oklahoma for more than three decades is dissolving. The [Oklahoma Educational Television Authority] F…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]When word got around last week that a private group was renting the AMNH for an evening honoring Jair Bolsonaro, who has been making aggressive plans to open the Amazon rainforest for loggin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"The last strike, in 2012, was settled in two days, and the 1992 work action, in 15 days. Why is this one taking so long? Talks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association management, musici…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Netflix will have passed the 150 million global subscriber mark when it reports its latest results this week … About 80% of new subscribers come from markets outside the US." " The Guardi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]Yes, it's true: none of the dancers in the Night of 100 Solos for the Cunningham centennial were ever members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Gia Kourlas reports on how the performers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"One night. Three cities. Seventy-five dancers. And three unique sets of 100 solos, all choreographed by Merce Cunningham." And if you can't be in London, New York, or Los Angeles to watch i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]The Palace of Westminster is a crumbling fire trap, warn MPs and building maintenance professionals, and fire patrols on the premises round the clock are the only reason the place hasn't bur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]As President Macron said, "The worst has been avoided" " meaning that, at least, the walls and the twin front towers didn't collapse and there were no deaths. Here's the current info. " The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Rachel Donadio: "I was standing in a hushed, pained throng along the Quai d'Orléans of the Ile Saint-Louis facing the back of the basilica, and when I watched the spire fall, I gasped and c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AM[SHARE]"She could get a laugh on literally every line you gave her," remembered Raymond's creator. "I've never seen anything like it." She received three Emmy nominations for her work on that serie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The Pulitzer jury described the winning piece as a 'bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]And Vox's Constance Grady says the play "made me the most uncomfortable I have ever been inside a theater. In a good way." " Vox
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]The Pulitzer board gave the late singer a Special Citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades." She is the first individual woman to rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The Post's nonfiction book critic was honored "for his ambitious and innovative essays that range across politics, presidential history, immigrant memories, national security reporting and f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for freestanding books went to The Overstory by Richard Powers (fiction), Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (general n…
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