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The Costumers Behind Your Favorite Ballet Are Sewing As Fast As They Can
The Boston Ballet’s Howard Merlin: “During the dress rehearsal, something looks really, really bad. … It’s my job to make sure it looks really,...
Theatre Might Just Want To Be Everybody’s Church
“There’s an inherent theatricality to church, and a furtive spirituality to theater. In form, they’re similar: Everybody crowds into a room, usually sits facing...
Mavis Staples Says That Her Long Singing Career Keeps A Light Shining
“There are some things going on in the US that are not pleasing to me, but I keep my head up. I turn on...
Is It At All Worth Going To The Cinema Anymore?
Bob Mondello says yes: "I love seeing movies in a theater, and if I can possibly avoid watching them at home, I do. ......
Will This Silent-Film Era Instrument Disappear?
"A cousin to self-playing player pianos, photoplayers automatically play music read out of perforated piano rolls. During their slim heyday — from their invention...
Dear Writers, If You Use AI To ‘Fix’ Your Writing, You Are An Ass
“Writing can terrify us, confuse us, devastate us. Good writing means that you’re engaging with practices that will force you to lean into things...
Workers At The Studio That Makes Grand Theft Auto Allege Union Busting
Rockstar Games fired a bunch of folks last week. “According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired...
In Possibly The Most German Moment Ever, ‘Grumpy Guide’ Museum Tours Sell Out
If you want to be yelled at for your art historical ignorance by an “aggressive” guide, get your kink on in Düsseldorf. "Asked to...
Some Of The Creepiest Locations In Britain
Not even counting the numerous Doctor Who locations (to be fair, many are in Wales), “England's historic buildings and landscapes ‘provide an essential ingredient...
Pour One Out For The Zune, Which Somehow Never Threatened The IPod
Microsoft really tried. “It had a bunch of interface design ideas that are still very present in our lives today. The universe in which the...
British Teens, And Adults, Are In Love With Literary Angst
For instance: “Turkish author Sabahattin Ali’s 1943 novel Madonna in a Fur Coat, first published by Penguin in 2016, has rocketed this year, selling almost 30,000 copies in...
The Box Office Had A Record-Smashing (Bad) October
"Overall revenues for the month were tragic, with $425 million across all titles, the worst collective haul since October 1997.” - Variety
Honestly, The Architecture Of The White House Was Simply An Honor System
Yes, you can blame the man who destroyed that honor system, but it could have been set up quite a bit differently. - The...
How Did This Tiny Theatre Become Such A Powerhouse Los Angeles Destination?
“In a city where the so-called Theater Row has more ‘For Lease’ signs than marquees, New Theater Hollywood feels improbable. Yet since opening in...
What’s Up With Our Fixation On Disability As A Marker For Horror?
“While physical beauty is often conflated with a character’s moral goodness, villains have historically been associated with disability or disfigurement: facial scarring, wheelchair use, limb difference.” - The Guardian...
The Making Of A New Hedda
“Joking that she had probably watched Robert Altman’s Gosford Park too many times, DaCosta said that she set the action in 1950s England because of...
The Three Musicians Who Make Up This Wildly Popular Band Hadn’t Even Met Before...
The three solo artists who make up Huntr/x recorded their now-platinum album alone. Then they went on The Tonight Show and got asked to...
The Politically Trenchant Movies Of An African Animation Pioneer
Alassane Moustapha, a filmmaker from Niger, was “as much a multimedia artist as a cineaste, he took an idiosyncratic approach to folkloric storytelling.”...
The Past Is Never Dead, Despite Attempts To Devalue Historical Fiction
While some in the literary world are snobs, one author says she considers the best of historical fiction “a lens forged from the experience...
South African Author Zoe Wicomb, Who Wrote From Self-Exile, Has Died At 76
Wicomb, who was born just after apartheid was formalized, said, “I was transported from the vulgarity of apartheid by books — books opened up...
The French, With A Wonderful Pun, Establish A New Prize For Lesbian Literature
“Lauriane Nicol threw herself wholeheartedly into the creation of the Prix Gouincourt (gouine is a slang term for lesbian), an ironic hat tip to France's...
Emma Thompson Would Like To Strangle Microsoft’s AI So-Called Helper
The actor, who is also a talented and award-winning screenwriter, told Stephen Colbert, “I end up just going, ‘I don’t need you to fucking...
The Classic Art Of The Movie Poster
Renato Casaro and Drew Struzan, both of whom died this autumn, "somehow combined realistic, often borderline photographic, representation of marquee movie stars with outsize,...
How Scotland Shaped Frankenstein, The Book, Not To Mention The New Movie
Sure, Geneva played a famous part, but a bleak part of Scotland was where it all began in young Mary Shelley’s imagination. - BBC
Steve Coogan Doubles Down On The Last King And Its Accuracy
Coogan: “I noticed the University of Leicester’s website carries Richard Taylor’s statement in full, but not any of my statements. I’m sure that’s just...
