“They need the ritual, they want to be part of the whole spectacle. Sometimes people think that for student concerts you have to be casual and the orchestra has to be casual too. What we are doing is quite the opposite, and we are very successful in it. I think you should take the audience seriously. You should take the young audience and treat them like adults.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
You Can Now Tour The Studio Where The Whitney Was Born
“The New York of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s day did not respect female artists, did not prize contemporary artists and did not appreciate American artists. Mrs. Whitney set out to change all that.”
Marvel Turned A Female Villain Into A Male Villain Because, You Know, Toys
“Iron Man 3 writer and director Shane Black explained that although he had written the film with a female villain, there wasn’t one on screen because Marvel feared it would hurt toy sales.”
The Young Dramaturgs
“‘Once I bring myself to rehearsal,’ thinks the young dramaturg, ‘what if I fail? What if someone stumps me? What if I don’t know how a late nineteenth-century Russian family would have eaten pierogie [as a big pie, by the way], or the year the Berlin Wall went up [1961]?'”
The Composer Who’s Also A Songwriter: Is That Weird?
“I had no mentors to guide me in compositional vision. I didn’t even know what to ask for. I was a suburban teenager with no family background in music, attending piano lessons each Tuesday and practicing four to five hours a day in secrecy from my rock-n-roll friends.”
What RuPaul’s Drag Shows Teach Us About Performance And The Self
“This rhetoric of self-love as a form of self-care has always been essential in the world of drag.”
We Think Sea World Is Cruel, But Then We’re Wowed By The Use Of Live Animals As Art
“It is hardly debatable that the employment of animals (beings incapable of consenting to spending days, weeks, or merely hours, confined to, and on display in, galleries or museums … ) is exploitative, reflecting a form of domination that does not simply regard living animals as material so much as it deforms animals into material.”
Britflix And Chill
“It’s just a rumoured working title. It’ll be great. The government has given the go-ahead for the BBC to develop a subscription streaming service and it’s going to partner with ITV and loads of others to make it happen.”
Could Theatre Ever Unite Cities The Way Sports Do?
“Just as we need to widen and diversify the stories we tell on stage and who is telling them, so we need to do the same about conversations around theatre. Otherwise we are only ever talking to ourselves. Why do some people go to the theatre and why do so many people never go, thinking that it’s some kind of exclusive club that’s not for them?”
Women Writers Swept Science Fiction’s Nebula Awards
“The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots.”