Over eight years, more than 550 musical acts have played at this “Tiny Desk.” The show has attracted a cult following on the internet, partly thanks to its musical curation — a peculiar mix of indie rock, hip-hop, world music, and jazz — but more so because of its authenticity.
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Yeah, The Theater *Is* A Safe Space, In More Than One Way (But Should It Be?)
Jesse Green considers how theater has been a refuge from generations of high school bullies, the one public setting where he feels safe holding his husband’s hand, and, these days, a place where right-thinking liberals can stay secure in their bubble. However, Green reminds us, Peter Brook did not title his seminal book The Safe Space …
Tim Robbins Has Been Teaching Improv Classes In Prisons For Ten Years – And The Data, Now In, Says It Works
“‘People said, ‘Yeah, yeah, you want to give them crayons. You’ve got acting classes?’ recalls Robbins of the launch of the Actors Gang Prison Project. ‘We’re like, ‘No, we don’t want anyone to be an actor. There’s too much unemployment in that. It’s about changing behavior.'”
Penn Foundation Gives Almost An Entire Year’s Grant Budget, $100 Million, To Rehab Philly’s Libraries, Parks, And Recreation Centers
The grant, by far the William Penn Foundation’s largest ever, covers one fifth of the entire cost of Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney’s Rebuild program.
New Immersive ‘Nutcracker’ Cancelled After One Performance
Former Royal Ballet member Will Tuckett conceived, organized anc choreographed a new version of the Christmas chestnut that would have the audience at tables as guests at the Act I Christmas party and wandering through the space (a converted industrial print shop) to take in the set pieces of Act II. Then the cash ran out.
The Religious Movie Boom You Probably Haven’t Heard About
You’ll remember Mel Gibson‘s The Passion of the Christ, and you probably know about the recent biblical epics Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings and this year’s Jesus bopics, The Young Messiah, Risen and Last Days in the Desert. There’s a similar trend in Middle Eastern cinema covering the early days of Islam.
This Week In Audience: Flipping The Approach To Getting More Diverse Audiences, Challenging The Goal Of What Artists Do
This Week: Maybe we need a new strategy to make arts audiences more diverse (the old ways haven’t worked)… An arts funder changes criteria to judge whether the artists “make change”… The cult of the American “Outsider”… Your cell phone is designed so you can’t not pay attention to it… Do books have to be on pages to be books? (not what the data say)
Survey: More UK Adults Prefer Theatre Than Sport For A Night Out
“A forthcoming report finds 26% of British adults identify theatre or opera as a great evening activity, compared with 17% who said the same for sports. Overall, 45% of British adults enjoy going to see live performance across all genres, rising to 63% among the under 25s.”
Adele Tickets Go On Sale In Australia, And Price Quickly Jumps To $5,600
“Fans shared their frustration as the websites of official agents struggled to cope with the demand. Many fans spent an hour or more trying and failing to get through, although some were successful.”
Some Museums Are Speaking Out Post-Election To ‘Affirm Their Roles As Safe, Open Spaces’
The president of the Tenement Museum, for instance, posted a message saying he and his staff “explain to visitors that Americans in the past sometimes lost confidence in their national future and lashed out against immigrants in reaction. We try to help visitors appreciate that immigrants often had to build new lives in the face of hostility.”