People are going into debt up to $130,000, and Harvard’s ART is shutting down its MFA program for three years to re-evaluate before it gets shut down. “While a theatre education is valuable, it ought to be cheaper. In an industry currently in the throes of an ongoing conversation about equity, diversity, and inclusion, lowering the cost of education is one way to attract individuals from more socioeconomic backgrounds. Otherwise, according to O’Malley, ‘What’s going to happen is the only people who end up with MFAs are going to be rich kids.'”
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The Syrian Guy Who Tattooed ‘Dance Or Die’ On His Neck Where ISIS Chops Off Heads Has Landed In Amsterdam
The managing director of the Dutch National Ballet: “I was surprised by what he had been able to achieve with the patchiness of the training he had. … It’s a bit late for him to be a classical [ballet dancer] but that doesn’t mean he can’t be an artist, a dancer.”
Netflix, But For Movie Theatres
365 days of movies for $9.95 a month? What? AMC is not OK with this, arguing that it will hurt movie theatres, movie studios, and even, perhaps, MoviePass itself. AMC: “From what we can tell, by definition and absent some other form of other compensation, MoviePass will be losing money on every subscriber seeing two movies or more in a month.” (But will subscribers, who are signing up in droves, care?)
Netflix, But For Live Theatre
Pay $20 a month, and get unlimited access to any offerings from a theatre? Um, OK. And if you
liked a play, you could see it more than once. (Maybe.) “Unlike a yearly subscription, which includes one showing of each play, a B-Flex pass could be used unlimited times – the incentive being that it gains value the more it’s used. B-Flex members do not have guaranteed seats, so its use would be contingent on availability.”
Can Wales Figure Out How To Fund Its Arts (And Artists)?
The country would like to figure out how to raise more private funds – and how to help arts organizations do the same.
Bill Nye Files 37 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Disney For Those ‘The Science Guy’ Videos
Disney did what? Nye says “he was deprived of $9 million in profits from his show, ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy,’ which originally ran from 1993 to 1998 on PBS.” Disney, of course, says that’s malarkey.