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Today’s highlights: Xander Parish, the first British principal of Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet, left in 2022 and will open the Nouveaux Ballets Russes in Florence on March 14 with a Swan Lake set in Belle Époque Paris, directed by an opera stager and built with projection mapping and holograms (Pointe). Lookingglass, the Chicago ensemble theatre whose alumni include Mary Zimmerman and David Schwimmer, has named two artistic directors and made Schwimmer producing director, with one show a year likely to be co-produced with New York partners to “spread the risk of original work” (Chicago Tribune).
England’s national museums will stay free to overseas visitors, though Baroness Hodge’s review had pointed to New Zealand and Singapore as models for charging them; the government said a fee could deter domestic visitors (The Independent). At the Whitney, the union wants a $34-an-hour floor, and its chair, Derrick Charles, earns $24; a strike is set for October 5, three days before previews of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective (ARTnews).
The Nashville Symphony suspended its season effective October 18 and furloughed all 77 musicians; new CEO Mark Cantrell blamed a deficit of $10 million and years of reliance on one donor (The Tennessean). Deniz Göktaş, a 32-year-old Turkish stand-up, received 19 months for insulting religious values and President Erdoğan in a special that has drawn 9.5 million views; he is free pending appeal (AP).
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