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The Oxford English Dictionary Is One Of History’s Great Crowdsourcing Projects
"The OED’s founders realized that such a titanic task could never be accomplished by a small circle of men in London and Oxford, so...
Keeping The Choreography Of “Wicked” Fresh For 20 Years
Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: "It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we...
The 24 Hour Plays — What I’ve Learned Pulling All-Nighters To Help Create One-Acts...
Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): "Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to...
Malaysian Government Orders All Concert Organizers To Have A Kill Switch To Cut Off...
"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off...
Court Ruling Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over Dance Movies In Video Game “Fortnite”
"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a...
A Hollywood Writer’s (Anonymous) Post-Strike Diary
"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as...
The (Worrisome?) Rescue And Resurrection Of Ebony Magazine
The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors...
Plans For Museum About Pulse Nightclub Massacre In Orlando Are Abandoned
"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida...
Frick Pittsburgh Cancels Exhibition Of Islamic Art
"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was...
Conductor Yuri Temirkanov, 84
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired...
“She’s Very Lighthearted. There’s No Hollywood Behavior”: The Once-Tempestuous Sean Young Is Acting Again
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play...
Floating On The Seine, A Day Center Where Patients With Mental Illness Make Art,...
"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they...
Why Is This Man Reviving A Ballet Company That Closed 27 Years Ago?
Christopher Marney: "My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we'd see London City Ballet at...
The Musical That Acquired Millions Of Online Fans Before It Ever Took The Stage
"Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success...
WordTheatre, Where Big-Name Actors Read Little-Known Literature Aloud
"The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded...
The Malcolm X Opera Opening At The Met On Friday Is A Family Matter....
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market...
Why Was Tucker Carlson Really Fired From Fox News? Basically, Because He Had It...
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think,...
How Is The Philadelphia Inquirer Getting Millennials To Buy Subscriptions? Inside Jokes.
"The ads lean into the city’s quirky culture across sports, food, and the arts, and evolve quickly to respond to news events so the...
Emory University’s Art Museum Admits — Reluctantly — That Some Of Its Antiquities Were...
"Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some...
Disney Is Buying The One-Third Of Hulu That It Doesn’t Already Own
"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the...
An Elderly Couple, A Bric-A-Brac Dealer, And Gabonese In France Are Fighting Over A...
"A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of...
It Comes As No Surprise That Henry Winkler’s Charming, …
"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap,...
The Stone Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Once Collectors’ Favorites, Now Struggle To Keep Their Work...
Stonecarving is a centuries-old craft among the Shona people, and it thrived until the start of this century, when the violent turmoil caused by...
Are OpenAI-Written Broadway Musicals Coming? No — They’re Already Here.
Peter Marks: "How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge...
Great Contemporary Novels Are Being Turned Into Story Ballets
"Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet...
