Concerts in early March in Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, and Palm Desert were found “no longer financially viable” due to “significant increases in cargo and travel costs.” April concerts in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Ann Arbor are unaffected. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Source link
The American director Jay Scheib was looking at a bank of monitors inside the Bayreuth Festival Theater on a recent afternoon. He was rehearsing his new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” which opens the storied Bayreuth Festival on Tuesday, and as performers circled a large metallic monolith onstage, the screens showed three-dimensional flowers floating through blank…
Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s entertainment agency, is a well-oiled machine, capable of putting together complex live performances all around the world for millions of fans. But, to create The Book of HOV, a public exhibition chronicling Jay-Z’s musical legacy at the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), Roc Nation found itself with a unique challenge: how to build…
In August of last year, two members of the German environmental activist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) entered the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden and glued their hands to the frame of Raphael’s 16th-century masterpiece, Sistine Madonna. Now, officials in the city are calling for the protestors to be punished. The Dresden prosecutor’s office announced on…
“She was a perfect doll. Now she’s the real thing.” Before there was Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie, there was Disney’s “Life-Size.” In a pink, damask-patterned, two-piece outfit and a fuzzy, frilly orange cardigan, supermodel Tyra Banks transformed into Eve, a “high-fashion doll” who becomes a “full-blown problem.” “I’m Eve, and you’re my special friend!” Eve…