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A Political Consultant Turns The Story Of His Downfall Into An Autofiction Musical
Hank Morris was a serious player until then-New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo prosecuted him. His new show, A Turtle on a Fence...
As Audience For Foreign-Language Streaming TV Soars, There’s A Shortage Of Translators For Subtitles
Talk to some of the skilled professionals who do the translating, however, and it seems this is yet another case where there's not a...
Why Dancing Is Good For Your Physical And Mental Health (According To Neuroscience!)
"Wouldn't it be great if science could confirm … that dancing is one of the best things we can do for our heath, joyful...
Some Encouraging Data On Whether And When Audiences Will Return
"In this blog, we first examine the historic impact of COVID on performing arts ticket sales and then we use the data to simulate...
As People Continue To Work From Home, Will Weeknight Performances Remain Feasible?
Fewer people than back in The Time Before will be able to swing by the theater or concert hall after leaving the office. Will...
Spotify Moves Into Audiobooks The Silicon Valley Way — By Buying A Company
The acquisition of audiobook platform Findaway lets Spotify "quickly bring a large catalog of audiobooks to its massive user base … in the way...
Strike Averted As IATSE Accepts Deal With Hollywood Studios
"The membership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted to ratify a new three-year agreement, ending the threat of the first...
One-Day Strike Called At Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
"More than 96% of the union, which represents public-facing staff, library workers, educators, curators, conservators, and administrative and professional workers, voted to picket outside...
La Mama Theatre Rises From The (Literal) Ashes
No, La MaMa in New York didn't burn down. But La Mama in Melbourne did. Founded in 1969 and an important venue for developing...
Sylvère Lotringer, Who Founded Semiotext(e) And Brought French Theory To America’s Art World, Dead...
We leave it to you to speculate on which direction St. Peter will send him for that, but his work did spark enormous changes...
In A Time Of Crisis And Pestilence, Vaudeville As Social Critique
Not, in this case, the early-20th-century American genre of variety show. This is 19th-century Parisian vaudeville: popular boulevard comedies depicting simply drawn characters from...
Writers Ought To Be Trained The Way Actors Are
"Actors in training get to try out different techniques and approaches, learning to develop a character through movement, script analysis, or emotional connection; they...
Are Some People’s Brains Simply Wired Better For Dance?
Well, there's no point in trying to deny that some people have more natural aptitude. However, writes neuroscientist Gayle Doherty, everyone has the ability...
Why Arts And Humanities Are Crucial To STEM Education And The Tech Industry
In the latest university rankings from Times Higher Education, the top two schools for arts and humanities in the world are, perhaps surprisingly, Stanford...
Design Fiction? What Exactly Is That?
According to this manifesto, it's "a tool for reimagining the past, present, and future. It makes scenarios real enough to feel possible, inspiring dialogue,...
Hollywood Has Joined The NFT Gold Rush
Is this a potential long-term income source or an big old asset bubble? Opinions differ, but the studios aren't letting even a short-term chance...
Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale
The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury...
Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE
"After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff...
The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says...
The catalogue for this fall's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World's Most Expensive Artwork into the "attributed works,...
‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor
During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings ("basically Tudor wallpaper") in...
At The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Annual New York Powwow
"Dance Magazine joined Saturday night's sunset bonfire to capture some of the competitions, and asked Thunderbird director Louis Mofsie and company dancer Michael Taylor...
Ocean Vuong Bombarded By Complaints From Australian 12th Graders Who Got His Writing On...
Student: "ur text was good but so confusing". Vuong: "mission accomplished". Student: "So u da one that got us all fucked up". Vuong: "Don't...
The Original True-Crime Dramas Were In Elizabethan Theatres
"More than four centuries ago a series of plays closely based on real murder cases appeared on the London stage. Their literary quality is...
Oxford’s Bodleian Library Was A Wreck Before The Eponymous Bodley Fixed It Up
"In 1598, … Sir Thomas Bodley, a retired diplomat and Oxford alumnus, offered to restore the dilapidated university library, entirely at his own cost....
Forest Whitaker’s Production Company Has Never Lost Investors A Dime. It Still Has Trouble...
Significant Productions, founded by Whitaker and run by Nina Yang Bongiovi, has made admired films like Fruitvale Station and Sorry to Bother You (that...
