AltWeeklies Wire
Columbia’s Art Community Gives Charleston a Run For Its Moneynew
If you live in a city with an international arts festival, a gallery on every other corner, one of the oldest art museums in the nation, and an amazing contemporary art center — and that city is also on the ocean — why would you spend 90 minutes on a congested highway to check out the art scene in a state government-dominated city where life often revolves around large young men bashing into one another under stadium lights?
Charleston City Paper |
Jeffrey Day |
04-13-2012 |
Performance
Can Charleston's Dance Community Bounce Back?new
The local dance scene is going through a rough patch. The two companies that have carried the community for decades are in flux. Robert Ivey Ballet is adjusting to new management after Ivey, a major figure in the local arts world, passed away late last summer. And the Charleston Ballet Theatre rang in its 25th anniversary season with a slew of board resignations, talk of financial mismanagement, and accusations of plagiarism — and some are wondering if the company can even recover.
Charleston City Paper |
Erica Jackson Curran |
04-13-2012 |
Performance
The Shrinking Stagenew
The economy is forcing local theater companies to book smaller, leaner productions to save money. Is financial prudence inhibiting art?
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
04-06-2012 |
Theater
Tags: Mark Jackson, performing arts, Liz Lisle, Shotgun Players, Mike Daisey, Actors Equity Association, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theater Company, Beth Wilmurt, California Shakespeare Theater, Carey Perloff, David Faustina, Impact Theatre, Lauren Gunderson, League of Resident Theaters, Magic Theatre, Marin Theater Company, Marin Theatre Company, Melissa Hillman, Patrick Dooley, Robert Kelley, Sasha Hnatkovich, Susan Medak, Susie Falk, TheatreWorks, Tom Ross, Valerie Weak, Willows Theatre
Composer Tobias Picker tapped to write a lead role for new SA opera companynew
When the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters announced their newly elected members on March 12, it was a good day for Schott Music, the venerable international music publishing company headquartered in Mainz, Germany, since 1770.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-05-2012 |
Performance
The Tobin equation: How performance centers elevate the artsnew
Raising money for arts organizations has always been difficult. Competition is steep.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-05-2012 |
Commentary
Ballet Magnificat! Marks 25 Yearsnew
As a professional ballerina, Kathy Thibodeaux began to pray about her career and her future when she became a Christian in 1979. "Should I keep dancing? Do I give up dancing?" She wondered. At that point, she says, no one in the country was really dancing for Jesus. Her Christian friends were skeptical that dancing was something a nice Christian girl should do.
Jackson Free Press |
Briana Robinson |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
Befringed and Bewildered? Surviving Orlando's International Fringe Theatre Festivalnew
Dwarfs with flashing tools? Check. Red dildo in the hand of a randy senior citizen? Check. Devil's weed, racial jokes told in blackface, the politics of pee and the mysteries of the clit? Check, all four.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
05-15-2008 |
Performance