Kara Young’s story has a few twists and turns, but right now she’s enjoying the chance to rehearse again – even if it’s on Zoom. “I love rehearsal — it’s my favorite thing in the world. … It’s an actual playground for me: I’m available to play with people. You don’t call it that, but it’s magic.” – The New York Times
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Somehow, The Emmys Did A TV Awards Show During The Pandemic Without Looking Entirely Self-Centered
That’s partly because of the presenters. “Essential workers, including a USPS delivery person, a rancher, two doctors, a teacher, a truck driver and a nurse practitioner, served as presenters. But before introducing categories such as supporting drama and comedy actor, they spoke about what they’ve been doing in their respective jobs to keep the country running during the COVID-19 pandemic.” – Los Angeles Times
When The Met Fired James Levine, They Cited Sexual Misconduct, And Paid Him 3.5 Million Dollars
The size of the previously undisclosed settlement “casts doubt on the strength of the company’s case had it gone to trial. Mr. Levine’s contract, which had been amended over the years but was essentially based on agreements struck decades ago, lacked a morals clause.” – The New York Times
What It’s Like To Watch The Opening Concert Of The Seattle Symphony As A Drive-In
Melinda Bargreen talks about the journey: “Music presenters often overuse the phrase ‘a concert like no other, but for once, that was exactly what we got: a Symphony concert recorded earlier in the week in Benaroya Hall, watched on the park’s big drive-in screens, and streamed through a dedicated FM channel into the car radios. There’s never been an opening night like this one.” – Seattle Times
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland Wins Big At Toronto Film Fest
Nomadland also won the Golden Lion in Venice, making it the first (and, so far, only) film to win both the Lion and the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. “In a plea to the audiences who had watched Nomadland remotely and at a drive-in screening, [the director] added, ‘Please, please keep going because we cannot do this without you. We’re so grateful and we hope we’ll see you all down the road.'” – Variety
U.S. Movie Theatres See Outlook Not Improving Much At All
Three-quarters of the country’s movie theatres are open on at least a limited basis; new movies are coming out weekly … and … that’s a no from audiences. “Americans are not going back in significant numbers in the COVID-[19] era.” – Portland Press-Herald (AP)
Yvonne Rainer And Radical Dance
Rainer, avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker, has a new book out. “A book about dance is a book, but it is also a mirror. And when a choreographer puts a mirror up to her work, angling to see it with new clarity, she often encounters her own reflection: her image and the mythologies of that image, her layered and conflicting legacies, the ways in which she has moved through the world — or appeared to.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
All Of The Winners At Last Night’s Emmys
Schitt’s Creek set an Emmys record; Watchmen did itself proud; and so, so much more. – The New York Times
The Best Of The Writers We Have, Often Deliberately, Forgotten
Hannah Lynch was “a neglected Irish writer, famous in her time,” but studying her also gives a window “into a robust international women’s culture at the fin-de-siècle that only recently has become the subject of critical revival, to which Irish writers, artists, journalists, and activists contributed.” – The Irish Times
The Future Of Theatre
There are many ideas. Many hopes. Stephanie Ybarra of Baltimore’s Center Stage: “We will rely less on the stuff of the stage and more on the physical bodies of the performers and the words they speak or sing and the movement of those bodies.” – NPR