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“Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade and an audience almost 20% smaller than it was pre-pandemic. … As the Jazz Age attests, bubbles can be fun.” But this one may soon burst. – Vulture (MSN) Source link
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A 2016 retrospective study that tracked injuries in a professional ballet dance company over a 10-year period found that most dancers experience a new injury every year. Researchers are paying increasing attention to the injury rate at companies, and companies are working to reduce their rates. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Source link
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There is no silver bullet when it comes to a theater’s recuperation from COVID-era struggles, but down in Ashland, new Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Tim Bond is assembling a leadership team with strong Seattle ties to help guide the storied, 89-year-old company on its continued road to recovery. Their guiding light: a shared commitment
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The Cultural Olympiad has a history spanning over a century. But what exactly is it, where did it originate, and how has it evolved? ADVERTISEMENT Baron Pierre de Coubertin may have stood at a modest 5’3″, but his impact on the 20th century was nothing short of monumental. From the 1890s, the Parisian educator and
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Today, representatives for Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verde, California, announced plans to disassemble the 1951 ecclesiastical structure by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright. Local firm Architectural Resources Group will lead this restoration effort with input from the National Park Service, given the site’s landmark designation. Several of the chapel’s adjacent facilities will also
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To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People shouldn’t be going to Phantom and The Lion King as well. – The New York Times Source link
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These raises were part of the museum’s first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn’t settled: there’s a binding arbitration case about it that’s now on hold until a new contract negotiated next year. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) Source link
On a cold November morning in 2022, writer and activist Amrit Wilson picked up a letter that arrived at the doorstep of her home in London, UK. The letter, from the high commission of India in London, accused the eighty-two-year-old of “multiple anti-India activities” that were “inimical to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity
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When YouTube launched nearly two decades ago, its first clip was a grainy video of co-founder Jawed Karim speaking to the camera while standing in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Not exactly must-see TV. Since, then the online video giant has increasingly been the entertainment of choice for billions of people.
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“I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart,’ ” Alice Munro, who died on Monday, at age ninety-two, once said. She rebelled against this edict, of course, but it stayed with her. There was, in her writing, often a very deliberate,
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