Yearly Archives: 2021
Arthur Kopit, Playwright Who Shook Up The Theatre, 83
Kopit "thrust Off Broadway into a new era with the absurdist satirical farce Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and...
Can The Huntington Change Its History Of Inequity?
Like most Gilded Age institutions, the Huntington has a lot to figure out. "Certainly, getting to a more equitable version of the future is...
The Subway Can Be Hilarious
Just ask these stand-up comedians, who have been doing sets on trains for months. There are tickets, but then there are also random subway...
Why The Duke Isn’t Coming Back
Listen up, Bridgerton fans, blame streaming (and the focus switch of each Bridgerton book, from which the series draws). At Netflix and other streamers,...
The Young Creators Of A TikTok Viral Dance Speak Out
Mya Johnson is 15 and Chris Cotter is 13 - and they're Black. A white TikTok influencer took their dance, and other viral dances...
The 20th Century Irish Playwright And The Secrets Of Her Green Suitcase
Teresa Deevy wrote plays about young women coming to terms with - and pushing back on - the restrictions of life in Catholic Ireland....
Ashleigh Gordon Shares the Castle of our Skins
The co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a collective of artists of all kinds dedicated to advancing Black artistry through...
Broadway Reopens For 36 Minutes
The pop-up event, where Nathan Lane and Savion Glover performed (one at a time) "before a masked audience of 150 scattered across an auditorium...
Riz Ahmed Explains How His Character In ‘Sound Of Metal’ Paralleled Life During The...
His character is a heavy-metal drummer who becomes deaf - very quickly. "You've got a character who is very focused on his daily grind....
Why Are Digital Ads So Obnoxious While Digital News Sites Keep Failing?
Like the so-called "pivot to video," a lot of the industry was built on a house of cards that one might, with some justification,...
Buildings That Claim To Be ‘Fossil Fuel Free’ Are Anything But
Glass, concrete and steel are far from carbon neutral, says a leading architect working on climate change. "The production of these materials entails burning...
Indoor Events Like Movies And Theatre May Return To California This Month
Restrictions both from public health officials and venues will be in place. "Venues can also choose to separate people into sections based on their...
The Pleasure Of Writing Actual Letters In The Era Of Email And Social Media
"A precise feeling of fondness accompanies the receipt of a letter from someone you care about. There are as many shades of this feeling as...
What Of Our Radically Reimagined Cities Will Remain Transformed, Post-Pandemic?
Public space is different now than it was 15 months ago. Streets have been turned to outdoor eateries and pedestrian malls; Paris removed tons...
Visitors To A South Korea Gallery Defaced A Graffiti Piece
Of course, they didn't mean to harm it - they believed it was participatory. Extra "Do Not Touch" signs have now been added. -...
This Year’s Oscars Might Be The Most Diverse Ever, Thanks To The Pandemic
The diversity is a silver lining of the awards season's weirdness. "A deeper, post-Covid existential crisis is on the cards. What is the point...
Composer Constance Demby Has Died At 81
Demby was a composer of electronica and New Age music. Her 1986 album Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate sold more than 200,000 copies. "Pulse...
Ovation Awards Snafu In Los Angeles Sparks Exodus Of Theatres From LA Stage Alliance
The list of things that went wrong at the Ovation Awards is too long to list - though the venerable East West Players did...
Myanmar’s Latest Internet Shutdown Will Damage Everyone In The Country, Not Just Pro-Democracy Activists
The internet is as much part of our utilities as water and electricity. The shutdown in this globally linked economy is destructive, and only...
Regular British People Got A Slight Lockdown Escape Through Writing Music
One 53-year-old paramedic said, "I'd never written a song before. ... But I came home from work and said: 'I need to write this...
Nike Wins A Restraining Order Against Artist Collective Selling Satan Shoes
Hello, freedom of artistic expression? Nope. Trademark protection - for both Satan and, perhaps, Jesus shoes: "MSCHF asserts that just like an earlier...
Just When We’re Tired Of The Whole Panini, Theatre On Camera Is Improving
Sort of. "Still, how these works fare on practical levels — such as WiFi reliability and technical mastery of a visual medium — reveals...
She Never Planned To Be An Actor, And Now She Has An Oscar Nomination
Yuh-Jung Youn didn't have acting on her life plan. "The self-taught thespian never envisioned a life in the performing arts. Her international breakthrough seems...
We Invented NFTs To Help Artists. It Hasn’t Worked Out That Way
"The idea behind NFTs was, and is, profound. Technology should be enabling artists to exercise control over their work, to more easily sell it,...
Theatres Leave LA Theatre Alliance After Awards Show Mis-identifies Asian Award-Winner
"More than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, have revoked their memberships...
