Friday, March 19, 2021
“In 1960 Peter Hall created a theatrical revolution. He turned a summer Shakespeare festival in Stratford-on-Avon into a year-round enterprise based on a permanent ensemble, a second home …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PMThursday, March 18, 2021
If so, it’s got nothing to do with illness or quarantine as subject matter; it’s that the lockdown pushed everyone — audiences, colleagues, and (crucially) gatekeepers such as casting …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Three years after Chris Dercon ended his brief, dissension-plagued tenure at the theatre, his successor as artistic director, Klaus Dörr, quit after it became public that 10 women at the Vo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:35AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Ivo van Hove at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Stéphane Braunschweig at the Odéon in Paris, Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Kajsa Giertz at the Helsingborg (Sweden) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:28PMHelen Shaw: “The pandemic has been a period of getting a lot of ‘little did I know’ stuff out into the open, including (but hardly limited to) the troubling ethics of the industry and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMFriday, March 12, 2021
Rob Weinert-Kendt: “So what happened — what changed — in this past 12 months, and how will this lost, frantic year be remembered? I asked dozens of theatre workers from all over the U.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AMThursday, March 11, 2021
“The annual theatre festival organised by the Indian People’s Theatre Association in the small town of Chhatarpur became the object of abuse and violent threats by Bajrang Dal, a hardlin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM“Subscription packages for some of Broadway’s biggest hits are being sold at a handful of the nation’s performing arts centers, while a host of others have booked dates and plan to [st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
“In one of the more surprising revelations of the shutdown, it turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to lead it through this crisis, the way Andrew Llo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
“Though private-equity firms are notorious for ruthlessly wringing efficiencies out of the properties they pick up, the investors who just bought one of Chicago’s most treasured cultural…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMThe queen had the little playhouse built as part of her pretend village at Le Petit Trianon; she and her friends attended plays and operas there and even performed themselves. (Her Majesty o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PMFriday, March 5, 2021
“The shift [to streamed performances during the lockdowns] has raised questions about whether audiences will return to theaters in the same numbers as before, and whether a blend of online…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThursday, March 4, 2021
“They’re our holy fools, who — even when no one is watching — keep the art’s sacred fires burning. Rehearsal isn’t so much a preparation-to-show as it is a kind of religious prac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMWeirder than ever before, no doubt. As the voters fill out their ballots this week and next, none of the shows they’re considering have been onstage for a year, and they can’t vote in a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, “I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form. It’s not quite theatre in that it’s video and no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PMTuesday, March 2, 2021
“The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer’s imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most often obsessing ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PMIn a regular year, it’s North America’s largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to present just a dozen or so perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMFriday, February 26, 2021
“‘I am calling you for a poetic consultation,’ said a warm voice on the telephone. ‘It all starts with a very simple question: How are you?’ Since March, almost 15,000 people aroun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMThursday, February 25, 2021
“Across the country, and beyond its borders, many theaters say new audiences for their streaming offerings has been an unexpected silver lining — one that could have ramifications for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
“In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion.” (It is the mother tongue of nearly 20 million people in the Turkish…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PMTuesday, February 23, 2021
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China. With the Chinese Communist Party e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMThe President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra. – Aaron Dworkin
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThe [agreement is that] the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets to pay them for content. The government…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMSomeone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice today is a shell’s, of a conch from a Pyrenees cave, assigne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM“The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued at €4.5m (£3.9m), for the National Li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM“A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age to 17,300 years ago …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMIn a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, “It’s been brutal for us. We’re basically using t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMA writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?” that inspired the Ford Foundation to fund the creation of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMSeveral places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. “[They] are not intended as sweeping monuments to the historical moment, b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMStaging a full-length performance digitally “would break the bank,” says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn’t really like streamed dance much. “I’m embracing it because th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMSunday, February 21, 2021
“Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should wear a mask for the duration of their visit f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM 
