Looks like the broadcaster might be losing a fair amount of money as soon as the government makes it legal for people to choose not to pay their BBC license fee.
Author: ArtsJournal2
What Has Osmo Vänskä Been Thinking – And Doing – Since The Minnesota Board Let Him Resign?
“I think that classical music is always going to be here, as long as there are human beings. But I think that everyone has to think about what is the right way to take care of classical music. It is not the first time when there are problems. I don’t know if there has ever been something which is not called difficult time, in history. I think it’s always time to try to adjust.”
New York Is So Expensive – But Here’s One Option For Artists To Live There
“If our projected costs and occupancy rates were correct (and if the jackhammering would let up), each partner would work 10 to 15 hours a week at the co-op to cover our rent, utilities and shared groceries, freeing up time to pursue the low-to-zero-pay projects we all had in music, art, education and writing.”
When Actors Take To Social Media To Lambaste Reviewers
“Franco’s Instagram post came with the comment: ‘Sadly Ben Brantley and the NYT have embarrassed themselves. Brantley is such a little bitch he should be working for Gawker.com instead of the paper of record.'”
The Choreographer Who Took A Bunch Of Professors To A Dance
“My intention was to put dance, rather than them, in the dock. Instead of writing technically about dance, I wanted them to bring their own highly refined terminology to bear on the form. In this way, both dance and academics would change locations and effect a mutual migration.”
Chicago Lays Claim To The Comedy (And Late Night) World
“Colbert is the logical extensions of groundbreaking, neo-absurdist shows like Second City’s ‘Pinata Full of Bees,’ coupled with the arrival on North Wells and North Clark streets of good-looking careerists rather than neo-Brechtian improvisors with much facial hair.”
The Best Easter Art Is Bloody And Disturbing
“Of all the rituals that marked the pre-modern year in Christian Europe, this was the time for the darkest meditations and most intense hopes. This contemplative mood makes the art of Easter far more personal than that of Christmas.”
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Trouble With iTunes, and More On San Diego Opera
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London’s Hottest Little Theatre (Literally) Gets A New Lease On Life
“The 220-seat Shed auditorium at the National Theatre opened last April and perches jauntily on the river front like an upside-down red wooden cow. What was meant to be a one-off, one-year project has now been granted a three-year stay of execution, taking it until spring 2017.”
Brave New World: STILL Too ‘Controversial’ For Some Americans
“Why would we teach kids what is negative in society? Let’s teach them what is right, to become good citizens and improve the fabric of society.”