Yearly Archives: 2023
Deadline’s Broadway Top Ten Of 2023
What so much of Broadway did this year: Provide an unflinching eye — and offer at least a modicum of hope — during very...
The Award-Winning Plays Now Banned In Florida
That’s right: in Orange County, Florida, students currently can’t read three Tony Award winners for Best Play, as well as a major work by...
The Real Peril For Elite Universities
They will remain rich and powerful, and they will continue to have many bright and competent people working within their ambit. And yet their...
The Free Speach Wars Are A Trap
It is worth remembering the vast majority of what we call free-speech issues have little basis in the First Amendment, which only forbids the...
Faculty Have A Plan To Save Harvard
Harvard, the faculty members said, should abandon its practice of taking official positions on political or social issues, as it did during the 2020...
Dezeen’s Ten Best Skyscrapers Of 2023
The Americas dominate this year's list, with three buildings in New York, two each in Vancouver and Sao Paulo and one in Mexico City. The other two come from the...
Standup Comedians Never Used To Have To Worry About Getting Fact-Checked (Poor Hasan Minhaj)
"'It's so bizarre to me,' says the Last Comic Standing finalist Laurie Kilmartin. 'Because when you look at how modern standup started, it was...
How 2023 Rewrote Box Office Rules
“When you lose half a year of production, 2024 will be a downturn,” O’Leary says. “We have to be realistic. If any industry lost...
How Is Instagram Affecting Ballet Dancers’ Working Lives?
"Once, dancers were recognised purely on the merit of their performances as audience members didn’t have access to anything else. Yet 2023 couldn’t be...
NPR Has No Regrets For Getting Off Twitter
After being labeled “state-affiliated media” and then “government-funded media” by Twitter shortly after Musk took over the company, NPR ceased posting on the social media...
2023’s Eleven Biggest Culture Controversies
Everybody hated Prince Harry's memoir, which nevertheless became the fastest-selling book in history. A country hit managed to divide much of America. A rock...
Mining The Culture Wars: Dave Chappelle Outsells All Other Comedians
There’s a gap between the backlash Chappelle generates online and his live shows with legions of fans. Amid this comedy culture war, he’s doubling...
We Are All Born Slaves To The Rhythm: Study
Scientist Henkjan Honing and his colleagues have found that even newborns have the ability to recognize a beat and to notice when a regular...
Young People Are Using Libraries More Than You Might Expect
New research released by the American Library Association found that more than half of Gen Zers and Millennials surveyed in 2022 had visited a physical library...
The 10 Best Trailers Of 2023 (Never Mind The Movies Themselves)
"In a world … where moviegoing isn’t what it once was and blockbusters run three hours … a great trailer gets audiences motivated to...
Togo Turns An Old German Colonial Palace Into The Country’s First Art Park
"If the former colonizers of Togo saw the Palais de Lomé, the country’s first major art and culture park, they might have found it...
Lit Hub’s Ten Biggest Literary Stories Of 2023
An author puts a hold on releasing a Russia-set novel, private equity buys one of the big US publishers, controversies break out over the...
For The Arts In Metro Philly, The Recovery Is Mixed And Uneven
Preliminary findings from an upcoming report reveal that only a third of responding institutions say audience engagement is back to 2019 levels; for performing...
In Pittsburgh, The Performing Arts’ Post-COVID Comeback Is Taking Its Time
"Despite positive attendance numbers in the spring and fall, … several of the city’s larger organizations … are in a similar boat — single...
South African Playwright Mbongeni Ngema, Who Created The Hit Musical “Sarafina!”, Killed In Car...
In addition to Sarafina!, which became a worldwide hit, Ngema is remembered internationally for the 1981 satire Woza Albert, which won over 20 awards...
Notable Literary Leaders Who Passed In 2023
Fay Weldon, Russell Banks, Charles Simic, Kenzaburo Oe, Dubravka Ugresic, D.M. Thomas, Martin Amis, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Gottlieb, Milan Kundera, Edith Grossman, Louise Glück,...
Twin Sisters, Book Editors At Competing Publishers
Such is occasionally the cost of doing business when you work in the same tight-knit industry as your identical twin. Turns out, Jean said,...
Works Of Art That Stood Out In 2023
To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group of artists to select a single exhibition or event that most memorably caught their...
How The Atlanta Symphony Started A Talent Program
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program, established in 1993 to identify and nurture talented African American and Latino music students, began with a...
Why Vinyl Recordings Still Have Commercial Allure
While more than four fifths of recorded music is consumed via streaming, vinyl continues to make a comeback. Sales rose by 11.7% to 5.9...
