Thursday, March 21, 2019
Great Shakespeare plays take the color of their surroundings " if the production is doing its job " and Broadway' new King Lear is accomplishing that. But how could any alert, modern Lear pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]A Rifftides reader recently confessed to never having heard Slim Gaillard's "Poppity Pop,"a 1945 recording with Charlie Parker as a sideman. The record might be dismissed as a period piece, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]Oh yes, he traveled by subway during his years (1908-11) as director of the New York Philharmonic. (He'd have taken one of the BMT lines to conduct at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Caryn James: "A nude scene! Abortion; birth control; prostitution! In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber's films were shockingly ahead of their time " and also immensely popular. She wrote, di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]In the 2015 Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening, Stroker became the first wheelchair-user Broadway actor, and she's now playing Ado Annie (the girl who can't say "no") in the revisionist D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a 1939 diorama purporting to show a diplomatic meeting between governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan) and some …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Says a statement from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, "In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted class…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]In addition to performing as a solo pianist and bandleader, "he applied his vast knowledge of music to transcribing early jazz works from recordings, most notably in his 1982 book Ferdinand …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]"The apocalypse can facilitate a different kind of social world," says scholar Caroline Edwards. "That might seem horrifying to the protagonists, but the writer is posing a serious question:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The youthful musical director of the Louisville Orchestra, who has built a national reputation as a creative and innovative force on the music scene, has signed an 'unprecedented' five-year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"MoviePass Uncapped will have a regular price of $19.95 per month, but the company is offering cheaper deals for what it says is a limited time. If you're willing to pay for a full year (via…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Three grandchildren of Greta Moll, the muse depicted in the portrait, had argued that the painting was taken in violation of international law and demanded that the National Gallery pay $30…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:50AM[SHARE]Just as the law now requires that Native American remains and artifacts should be returned to today's Native tribes, the descendants of a pair of slaves seen in historic daguerreotypes now o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"A versatile choreographer whose work includes flamenco, hip-hop, classical ballet and contemporary dance pieces, … Ms. Lopez Ochoa will accept the award, which comes with a $25,000 cash p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wan Smolbag Theatre in the 70-island nation of Vanuatu is the only professional stage company in the entire South Pacific made up entirely of Pacific Islanders. Three decades after its found…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Set to be handed over for the first time this October in Shanghai, the Nomura Art Award will give a single contemporary artist with an established body of work the funds to 'support an ambi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Alaa Al-Aswany (The Yacoubian Building) is accused in the suit of "insulting the president, the Armed Forces, and judicial institutions" in a set of articles he wrote for the Arabic service …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Annapolis Symphony executive director Patrick J. Nugent and concertmaster Netanel Draiblate write about why and how they started the Annapolis Symphony Academy, "a culturally diverse after-s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:23PM[SHARE]The piece, titled THE B-SIDE: "Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons": A Record Album Interpretation and conceived and assembled by director Kate Valk and performer Eric Berryman, consists…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:13PM[SHARE]Mihaela Drăgan: "From cultural appropriation to (mis)representations, I and four other writers map the presence of Roma theatre in Europe. We endeavor to do this in order to counter our s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:13PM[SHARE]"While [Meghan Freebeck's] life's work is helping people living on the streets get medical care, housing and groceries, she recently added something new to the mix: A Shakespeare workshop. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tammy Haili'Åpua Baker: "Kanaka Maoli [indigenous Hawaiian] theatre artists are grounded in our homeland, our language, and the stories, beliefs and ways of our ancestors. This series exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Following up on her open letter to fellow musicians and her point-by-point guide to accessibility, autistic violinist Chrysanthe Tan selects a dozen reader questions and offers answers. " Ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:53PM[SHARE]"Annie Chapman, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Kelly, Polly Nichols and Liz Stride " odds are that these names won't ring a bell. But Jack the Ripper will. The most notorious killer in this country…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:43PM[SHARE]"Issues that produce social, economic, and moral deprivations cannot be 'solved' by arts, creative industries, or whatever we come to call them next. They should and can be solved with meani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]"Many of us, not only in TYA but also in the wider theatre world, are more strongly than ever focused on listening and talking to young people " truly hearing their voices " and reflecting t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:23PM[SHARE]The developer of Hudson Yards temporarily christened Thomas Heatherwick's big bronze stack of stairways The Vessel, but " just as 30 St Mary Axe in London is "the Gherkin" and Cloud Gate in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]One day, Edythe called me into the bedroom and said it was time for us to have a real meal, a roast beef. "You can do it, it's easy." That's the first thing I cooked all by myself, a year or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]So what is "affect theory"? "Under its influence, critics attended to affective charge [in society]. They saw our world as shaped not simply by narratives and arguments but also by nonlingui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]If you live in an American city with a sizeable performing arts center, at some point you've probably seen ads or flyers for this touring company. Writer Jia Tolentino had never paid them mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]The English city of Hull has a lively theatre scene for a town its size, but the local newspaper published only two theatre reviews in the whole of 2018, and the national critics rarely make…
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