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More Inflammatory Opinions From David Mamet (About Theater, Not Just Politics)
"What play did you ever see that's changed your life? That's not the purpose of theatre." "Acting has nothing in the world to do...
If We Described Someone As “A Vocal Figure Skater”, Whom Would You Picture? Probably...
You'd probably picture some winsome soprano singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, not a big, bearded tenor who sings Peter Grimes. But...
“Linguistic Convergence” — Why Folks Tend To Start Mimicking The Speech Patterns Of The...
"People tend to converge toward the language they observe around them, whether it's copying word choices, mirroring sentence structures or mimicking pronunciations. ... In...
Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Has Been Shepherding Through Some Big Changes
"Four years ago, Alicia Graf Mack — a former star of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey — took the reins of the...
Looks Like Even France’s Film Industry Has Had Enough Of Roman Polanski
His career flourished there after he fled statutory rape charges in the US in 1973. But there was a huge backlash when he won...
Is That Long-Lost Painting The Italian Police Just Recovered Really A Titian?
The Carabinieri say so, but at least two prominent art professionals disagree: Titian scholar Andrea Donati ("sensationally wrong ... I cannot even see the...
“This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO
Roger Lynch: "We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million...
“Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed
"Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe....
Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically
"Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise...
France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister
Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in...
“True Rhymes Are Marvels; A Slant Rhyme’s A Sin. Or Is It Vice Versa?...
Adam Gopnik considers how "slant rhyme" (English teachers call it assonance) and rap's constant use of it have revivified verse, both sung and spoken...
Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?
Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now. Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they're reading...
A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On...
"Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere ... through May 29,...
How The Standup Comedy TV Special Became A Genre Of Its Own
"The first decade or so of the 2000s wasn't exactly a time of artistic evolution for the special, but the rapid increase in special-making...
Kyiv’s Opera House Is Back To Putting On Opera
"In a city that ... became used to wailing air-raid sirens and the thuds of artillery from the suburbs, the audience was instead treated...
Philadelphia’s City History Museum Was Doomed. Thank Goodness A University Has Taken It Over.
"Interviews with more than a dozen museum professionals suggest that the Philadelphia History Museum ended up in (storage) far from the heart of the...
There Was More To Frank Langella’s Firing Than Just Ignoring The Intimacy Coordinator’s Blocking
"One word consistently used by virtually everyone when describing Langella's behavior" on set for Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher "was 'toxic'...
ABT’s Incoming Director Could “Quietly Blow Up The Entire Way We Think About Ballet”
"Susan Jaffe, who recently turned 60, has in mind such steps as opening up artistic processes to the public and soliciting views from balletgoers...
“The Art World’s Bernie Madoff”, Inigo Philbrick, Gets Seven Years In Prison
"Prosecutors accused Philbrick of committing 'one of the most significant frauds in the art market's history,' describing his operation in a sentencing memorandum as...
Beeple’s Twitter Was Hacked, And A Lot Of Money Was Lost
"Teasing a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, the hacker first tweeted out a raffle entry and then a link where followers could claim...
Elspeth Barker, Journalist Who Wrote “One Of The Best Least-Known Novels Of The 20th...
Published when she was 51, Barker's O Caledonia won several awards and was popular in Europe for several years, then faded away. She parlayed...
One Of India’s Bravest Playwrights Takes On Her Touchiest Subject Yet: The Man Who...
Anuparna Chandrasekhar has wriiten about a sex tape going viral in conservative India to the notorious 2012 gang rape on a bus in Delhi. ...
For The First Time, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” Is Being Produced As She Wrote...
The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering...
Calvin Royal III Takes Mother Jones To The Ballet
The crusading lefty investigative magazine profiles Royal, a principal dancer at ABT and one of the still-all-too-few Black stars of classical ballet. The marquee...
Virtual Reality Gets Smelly: Startups Are Trying To Bring Aroma To The Metaverse
"Today, as metaverse engineers, designers, and architects map out the look of digital future experiences, for some, smell has become a key part of...
