Yearly Archives: 2023
Fatimah Asghar Wins The First Carol Shields Prize
Asghar's When We Were Sisters "follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death. The prize...
It’s Been A While Since A Ham4Ham Crossover Happened Live
But the years melted away in a very special Sweeney Todd and Hamilton mashup on Friday: "The entire cast of the current Sondheim revival...
Laura Pels, Devoted And Determined Patron Of Nonprofit Theatre, Has Died At 92
Her foundation helped many a theatre in New York and beyond. "There were rules: Productions had to be run by accredited nonprofit theaters; a...
No, We Can’t Separate Artists From Their Art
"When someone says we ought to separate the art from the artist, they’re saying: 'Remove the stain.' Let the work be unstained. But that’s...
The Right-Wing Desire To Control Kids’ Books Has Its Tentacles Everywhere
"If we all know that the largest children’s publisher in the country, the one with the most access to schools, is capitulating behind closed...
A Look Back At All Of This Century’s Fiction Pulitzer Winners
As we await Monday's prize announcements, here's a look back at Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead (again), Cormac McCarthy, Elizabeth Strout,...
As Writers Go On Strike, Streamers Boast Of Record Profits
Maybe this isn't great timing - for the streamers, anyway. For instance: "On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that the company’s...
Art Museums Are In The ‘Find Out’ Stage Of Buying Looted Art
As The NYT elegantly puts it, "the art and antiquities market had for too long been a 'no-questions-asked' environment." Now, those questions are being...
Japanese Game Companies Push For Accessible Design
One of the hardest things to figure out? Making game choices not dependent on color so that color blind players can still play through....
An Illustrator Pulls Out Of A Literature Festival Thanks To The Fest’s Use Of...
The Bradford Literature Festival used AI to generate its marketing images this year. Illustrator "Chris Mould was due to hold a masterclass at the...
The ‘Volume War’ In Vocal Music
You wouldn't know it from Adele, true, but "according to acoustic scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, lead singers have been getting quieter...
This Writers Strike Might Last A Really Long Time
Says one expert, "I was very startled by the degree to which the two sides are apart. ... It was really shocking to see...
Who Owns The Legacy Of This 1970s Chicano Art Group?
"Asco was known for its glam looks and outrageous conceptual antics and for redefining what Chicano art could be," but as former members fihgt...
Making The Final Ballet Of Jerome Robbins
"What’s amazing is how young looking and exuberant this ballet is. ... Mr. Balanchine did all these dark, morbid ballets toward the end of...
That Time Yahoo Could Have Bought Netflix, But Went For Tumblr Instead
Wow, did that not go as planned. Apparently, Yahoo was also looking at Hulu. "Either of those, with hindsight being 20/20, would have been...
Don’t Let The Pigeon Go To The Opera
Beloved children's author Mo Willems, who is bringing a Pigeon opera to the Kennedy Center, says children's lit and opera have commonalities, including big...
The Deep Anonymity Of The Superstore, According To A Nobel Prize Winner
Annie Ernaux, writing about a French superstore, "faces the harder emotional truth: you can hate everything the superstore stands for, ... the superstore...
War? Flood? Fire? The Cultural Emergency Response Team Is At The Ready
Cultural Emergency Response, based in the Netherlands, coordinates "first responses to damage and to prevent future damage by shielding sites against threats posed...
Elevating Papier-Mache To A High Art – With Animal Masks
Liz Sexton "can spend upwards of 100 hours on a mask, honing the details using woodworking techniques, be that carving more than a hundred...
Hollywood Producers Push Back Against Writers Union Claims
“We don’t agree with applying a one-size-fits-all solution to shows that are unique and different in their approach to creative staffing,” the AMPTP stated....
Most Artists Have Day Jobs. Are They Asset Or Liability?
Day Jobs makes the countersuggestion that, for people with creative ambitions, day jobs should be recorded not as losses but as gains. - The Baffler
Movie Audiences Returning? Theatre Owner AMC Posts Strong 20 Percent Sales Gain
Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. Shares popped...
Immersive Shows: Hated By Critics, Loved By Audiences
Critics generally hate the shows, but, if attendance figures are anything to go by, the paying public loves them. Museums have taken notice of...
Memorials To Pushkin In Ukraine Are Under Threat
Pushkin has been falling rapidly in Ukraine. Since the start of the full-scale invasion last February, more than 30 monuments to the poet have been dismantled....
When Screens And Live Theatre Collide
One of the most intriguing aspects of the celebrated show is the live video recording, with close-ups of the actors and occasional puppetry interludes...
