Editors’ Choice: Some ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn’t Miss From The Past Week
1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want?Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want. One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience. But perhaps it’s… … read more
AJBlog: DiacriticalPublished 2016-02-14
Coming into land
Shouldn’t ballet have previews? Wouldn’t it help dancers and choreographers alike? As with most bad things, the money says no. Ballets have short runs, so you slap ’em on stage and get reviews and… … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-02-14
From Palestine via Belgium
Badke, a Belgian-Palestinian dance production, comes to New York Live Arts. Badke. Maalii Maali (L) and Samer Samahnah; visible at back: Mohammed Samahnah (L) and Ameer Sabra. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu There is no light in… … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-02-14
The Old Catchup Game (Part II): Geller, Magris, Washington, Diehl, Wheeler
Not to make too big a deal of it; I know I’ve mentioned it once or twice before. But it’s impossible to keep up with the torrential flow of jazz releases. All we can do… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-02-14
Is there a Canadian cultural policy crisis?
At the Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor writes: The policy tools that have protected and nurtured Canada’s cultural industries since the 1970s are unknown to transnational distributors of foreign content – that would be… … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2016-02-13
Celebrating Bernard Herrmann
A towering figure in twentieth century American music,Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) has long been pigeon-holed as a “Hollywood composer.” Though he is widely acknowledged the supreme American composer for film (Citizen… … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-02-12
[ssba_hide]