Sunday, January 31, 2021
“Regal in bearing, with willowy beauty and delicately chiseled features, Ms. Tyson was known for embodying women of great poise striving under great pressure. … [Her] electrifying portra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Having started her career with Harmonia Mundi in 1972 as a press officer, she went on to produce more than 800 recordings with artists including Philippe Herreweghe, [William Christie], J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The collection” — which, the museum says, has “insufficient reliable provenance” — “includes manuscripts and papyrus fragments with texts written in Coptic, hieratic and demot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“A sterling 550-year-old portrait by the Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli that was the star lot of Sotheby’s Old Masters sale has sold for $92.2 million, making it the second-most-ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“In addition to being creative thinkers and makers, many artists, designers and architects are also researchers whose work reveals new insights and approaches to solving some of the most c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMOr, if not the entire movie-theater business, at least AMC. The pandemic had made the already-difficult financial situation of the world’s largest cinema chain disastrous. But the same ama…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The workforce of broadcast engineers — those who know to fix broadcast transmitters, tubes and wires — is reaching retirement age. … Far fewer skilled young people are waiting in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe Vertical Theatre, as it’s called, will be modular, with a capacity of 1,200 to 2,400, seated in small groups separated (if necessary) by clear screens. The structure has a roof, but th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Mary-Kay Wilmers … was one of the founders of the literary magazine in 1979, along with Karl Miller and Susannah Clapp, became co-editor in 1988, and has been its sole editor since 1992…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“I’ve done about 18 of these virtual shows, and I’ve learned things from them that I thought I had long understood after 20 years of being a professional comedian. People need comedy. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIn fact, outside North America and Europe, 78s were the standard record format well into the 1960s, and they hold an enormous variety of music from the days before globalization. A new antho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMGarry Stewart took the helm at Adelaide-based ADT — which is the country’s oldest contemporary dance company — in 1999 and choreographed 20 original works there. – InDaily (Adelaide)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMFriday, January 22, 2021
To an extent, yes, it has. Reporter Natasha Tripney talks with theatremakers around Britain about the positive developments — the success of streaming, increased engagement with communitie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PMThursday, January 21, 2021
“Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times (‘This one’s for the hedonists,’ exulted Ben Brantley), and it was regularl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Jesse Green: “I admit that I do it too. … But even these comparisons are reductive — in both directions. Shakespeare’s characters are much richer and more readable than someone as un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM“We will definitely find you … and we will hang you side by side.” So said a column in Sovietska Belarus, the more-or-less official newspaper of the post-Communist dictatorship. The ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:05AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
“For the most part, it didn’t aim straight at the president. … Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays — like Heidi Schreck’s What the Constit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMFriday, January 15, 2021
Puppetry had never been part of the Yiddish theater tradition, but in 1920s America, they were all the rage. So in 1925-26, a pair of writers created a Purim shpiel (the Jewish equivalent of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMShows were running in the French capital for a few months last year, before a big new wave of COVID infections led to a new lockdown and a crop of new productions were going to waste. But no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PMThursday, January 14, 2021
The NEC’s roots lay in a drama workshop for Harlem youth that founder Robert Hooks ran in a makeshift theater in his apartment until the landlord found out. The professional company was bo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
On January 17, 1921, in a north London theatre, “an English magician called Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman. It was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:58PMTuesday, January 12, 2021
“Has it really happened that way, though? To go back to my paragon, Pauline Kael, she was perceived as shaping the course of Hollywood, and I’m not sure she did when you look back at it.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PMFriday, January 8, 2021
“It’s like what ‘Michelangelo’ said, right? He’s working with the marble and taking away everything that’s not the sculpture. And let’s put Michelangelo in quotes, ’cause was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMThursday, January 7, 2021
“Arts workers in the NHS, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actor Michael Balogun and theatre company 20 Stories High are among those recognised in this year’s The Stage 100 list, which has …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AMWednesday, January 6, 2021
“The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to provide theatregoers, deprived as we are of theatre …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMDisney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters — until the pandemic changed everything and the sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:35AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
“Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working in the field for over …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMThursday, December 31, 2020
“When the curtain went up at the Palace Theater on Jan. 4, 1981, the expectations — and the stakes — were high. Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, had cost a report…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PMWednesday, December 30, 2020
Over the course of this year and next, Brave Spirits Theater in Alexandria, Va. was going to be “first professional American theater company to mount full productions of Shakespeare’s tw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PMTuesday, December 29, 2020
“Vulture spoke with [11] comedians about how pivoting to virtual and outdoor shows in 2020 were (and weren’t) helpful for preparing material, lessons they learned about performing during…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PMThursday, December 24, 2020
“Almost exactly eight months after the closure of their [last remaining] New York venue and improv training center, the Upright Citizens Brigade has announced the end of their Sunset Theat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:34AM 
