In one research project, more than 93% of stage managers interviewed said they had ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ experienced burnout.
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Updated management practices and monetized digital production could help opera companies rely less on subscriptions and big donors for revenue – bolstering budgets.
Lady Gaga’s recent Coachella performance models how small acts of resistance and emotional power can enlist support for hopeful visions of the future.
Such mishaps seems to be on the rise, with artists dealing with everything from flying skittles to reckless audience members rushing at them mid-performance.
The theatre was turned into a lecture hall in 2006 due to space constraints at the university. As it reopens its doors, decades’ worth of memories come flooding in.
Many artists are expected to organise their own ticket sales and event promotion. This is coupled with low pay from venues and having to juggle music with other full-time jobs.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss the town’s formula of spectacle meets story.
Foot stomping songs and charismatic performances make the stage adaptation of the 1970s TV series a hit.
Fans who flock to see ABBA Voyage, a digital avatar concert, chase the feeling of a live ABBA performance. They’re finding it, and they’re building meaningful connections, too.
Audiences love improvised, off-the-cuff entertainment, and new research suggests it’s because spontaneity seems to offer a glimpse of the performer’s authentic self.
Some concertgoers reported being so moved by their first concerts in nearly two years that they wept with joy – a testament to the power of this unique form of human communion and connection.
5 ways to support safe live performance re-openings as we emerge from COVID-19.
Sleeping through a live performance would usually indicate it wasn’t engaging. But as a film about Max Richter’s Sleep concerts explains, this is exactly the response the composer was hoping for.
While big and small events on the 2021 arts calendar are still shifting or disappearing altogether, a sharper local focus could save the day.
Theatre and audiences are slowly beginning to share the same airspace again. We are freshly conscious of breath, but it has always been intimately linked with the dramatic arts.
Cambodia found the strength to rebuild itself
through art after the 1979 genocide. While the context is different, this example suggests the importance of art in navigating COVID-19.
The successes of the NBA’s #WholeNewGame provide important lessons for performing artists about audience investment and hybrid digital-live events.
Opening traditional theatres and smaller venues may not be physically or financially viable. But with winter coming and the arts industry floundering, something needs to be done.
Chances are your favourite band started out learning the trade at a pub or small club. Venues like this are under threat like never before.
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Director of Research, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Music, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Dramaturgy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate in Queer Performance, University of Tasmania
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Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
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Lead Academic Tutor, Theatre Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
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Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst