"How much longer will it be before our arts companies are no longer run by artists? Unless we are all vigilant on this score, I believe it will be not too long at all and I further believe this would be the end of theatre as a true art form, in this country."
Lyn Gardner: "Just as the window displays of Topshop may deliberately scream that their wares are not for me - a middle-aged woman - many venues unwittingly send out the signal that theatre is not for everyone. ... If the public has paid for these buildings then they truly must be places available to the public - and artists - all day long, to do what they want, not what they are directed to do. They shouldn't feel the need to be invited in, but they should be made to feel welcome whatever their purpose for being there.
"More, more, more. Here, hardly a season goes by without the announcement of yet another new art museum or expansion - all fueled by the homegrown excitement and international attention surrounding the Art Basel Miami Beach fair each December, and all primarily focused on Basel-style contemporary art at the expense of virtually every other artistic milieu. Left behind is the math underlying this increasingly crowded landscape: Can Miami afford all of these art museums?"
Searches for the word spiked three times during the past year, two of them after incidents involving Ivanka Trump and the third after the angry speech in which Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his retirement.
The North State Symphony was performing Firebird in Redding, California, and at one point where there's a big, sudden crescendo, one Stephanie Evans screamed. Alas for her, the moment was caught on video. Here's how the conductor and orchestra handled it, and how Evans explains it.
"Back when Lumberyard was known as the American Dance Institute and operated out of a strip mall in Rockville, Maryland, it pioneered its Incubator program to whip new pieces into shape, kind of like the "out-of-town" tryout model for theater. Several of the artists it supported ultimately brought their shows to the Brooklyn Academy of Music." Now that the ADI has relocated to the Catskills as Lumberyard, "the partnership is official."
Ashley Newman: "On May 5, 2016, I was dancing with some of my best friends in rehearsal for The Chase Brock Experience, where I'm a founding company member. I was thrilled to be back doing a show after taking some time off for graduate school. My next memory is waking up in the hospital with a ventilator tube down my throat."
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — in...
