“Creating a ballet company in Peoria in 1965 was difficult. Ballet was not particularly popular then, and even less popular in stodgy Peoria.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Classicist Who Thinks We Can Actually Beat Internet Trolls
“She responded, battling back her antagonists and becoming something of a folk hero in the process. Now her engagements often combine her two pursuits, as her talk at Women in the World did: tracing the history of misogyny from the ancient world to today.”
How To Become The Best Bookstore In The World
“Our biggest year was when Borders closed. … We got a huge onflow from that!”
The Next Big Playwright Just Might Be A Quiet British 29-Year-Old
“Even at this stage of her career, Ms. Mitchell said, Ms. Birch is an important writer, in the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield — ‘those tough women who can also do exquisite lyricism.'”
James Levine’s Best Moments From Decades At The Met
“Levine built the Met Orchestra into one of the world’s great ensembles. And, more than any other mainstream figure, Levine has used his position to gradually expand American appreciation of the form.”
The Man Who Chronicled A Youth Revolution
“For me, photography is all about youth. … It’s about a happy world full of joy, not some kid crying on a street corner or a sick person.”
What A Play Is, Or Could Be, And Certainly Is Not
“If your friend wrote the play, do not tell her upon curtain that ‘the actors were really talented.’ Actors are popsicle sticks painted with eyes and animated by her mind and your praise can immolate itself on a bonfire stoked with those sticks, thanks.”
Cate Blanchett Got Her Start Singing Silly Songs In The Melbourne University Law Revue
“You may not care much for the song (‘I wish I was your cigarette, smoked on through your lips/killing you softly with my tar and seeping out your nostrils’), but what’s undeniable is the vocal prowess of Ms. Blanchett.”
How Ensemble Theatres Can Make, Not Fake, Diversity
“In an ensemble theatre company, often it’s actors and other artists who hold the keys to what type of work is produced and which artists the company chooses to work with in the future. Oftentimes, these companies are made up of wonderfully talented white artists. They hit a brick wall, however, when they aren’t willing to give up opportunities in order to grow diversity in their artistic family.”
The Grave-Robbed Ancient Manuscripts That Are Changing Our Understanding Of History And Philosophy
“The texts also show a world in which magic and divination, even in the supposedly secular world of Confucius, played a much larger part than has been realized. And instead of an age in which sages neatly espoused discrete schools of philosophy, we now see a more fluid, dynamic world of vigorously competing views — the sort of robust exchange of ideas rarely prominent in subsequent eras.”