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Writers should be free to express their opinions – not strangled by Stasi-like ‘diversity’ rules
Arts critics are being warned by the union Equity to watch what they say. Whatever the intentions, it’s a sinister, anti-free speech move
29 April 2021 • 5:00am
Critically isolated: writers and journalists, says Ben Lawrence, shouldn t be ordered to conform to industry pressure
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Last week, the acting union Equity delivered a new set of guidelines for theatre critics. Among its recommendations was that critics should consider their ethnicity and relative privilege when writing their reviews. The union urged that they “avoid referring to immutable characteristics such as age, race, gender and appearance, unless such characteristics directly affect the production’s meaning”. For a decade, I have been a critic across several art forms, including theatre, and while I hope that, out of fairness, I have always adhered to the above, I am appalled that Equity ar
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DSO President Anne Parsons to retire in fall of 2022
Anne Parsons, the longtime president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra who helped push the orchestra onto the national stage while steering it through a series of challenges, plans to retire in the fall of 2022, the DSO announced Wednesday.
Parsons has been at the DSO s helm since 2004, leading the organization through economic downturns and a bitter musicians strike, all while boosting its programming, audiences and financial outlook.
Her decision to retire comes as she s been battling lung cancer.
“I have been honored to serve the remarkable Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the people of this vibrant and resilient city for the past 17 years,” said Parsons, who is currently on medical leave, in a press release. “Even before my cancer diagnosis, I had been looking at my 65th birthday in 2022 as a favorable time to close this chapter of my life, and for the past two and half years, it has been
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