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If They Can Make It Here, These Top High School Actors Know, They Might...
That is to say, more than 100 high school theatre stars have been working for a week to put on a Broadway show tonight....
London’s Fabled Ealing Studios Get A Revamp And, Owners Hope, A New Life
“What we dreamed of doing was to make a studio that had all this history, the old stages built in the 1930s and the...
What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks
“Before Jaws premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent...
Lessons From The Apocalypse
How humanity, or at least some humans, can survive. (Hint: Study archaeology.) - Fast Company
More Fallout From The Broadway Shows That Didn’t Win At The Tonys
Dead Outlaw “was nominated for seven prizes, including best musical, but won none. It is the third new musical to post a closing notice...
The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz
The writer was so popular that “a ‘Boz Ball,’ attended by 3,000 people, was held in New York in 1842 to welcome Dickens to...
Author Kaveh Akbar Reflects On Making Art During War
“Every Iranian that you know has people in Tehran, people around Iran who are doing poorly,” the author of Martyr! says. For instance, his...
Actor Jay Ellis Found Inspiration In Colson Whitehead’s Books
The star of movies, and now Off-Broadway, says, "I feel like I did not understand or see myself in fiction until I read him....
There Are Just So Many Bros On Broadway Right Now
One (male) audience member: “We want to see a good, solid male psyche. We want to see the full extent of the male experience....
Pixar, Once The Golden Child, Is Having A Very Rough Time With Its Original...
What in the heck is going on? Since the pandemic, “while audiences often say they want to see new stories, box office ticket sales...
Instead Of Replacing Journalists, Can Targeted AI Use Help Indie News Sites Get Better?
Minnesota’s nonprofit Sahan Journal "has been working on ways to support internal workflows with AI. Now, it’s even testing a custom ChatGPT bot to help...
A New Proposal For The US At The Venice Biennale Is, Uh, Not Great
“With its fascist posturing, suggestion of militarized violence, laser light shows, and relentless ego-buffing in the form of giant statuary, it’s like World War Z but...
Marlee Matlin Won An Oscar, But Had To Wait Years For More Good Work...
And - despite CODA co-star Troy Kotsur’s Oscar win in 2022 - that hasn’t changed. “'It’s hard to find work,’ she said, but still...
An Underground Ballet Revival In Ukraine Gives Relief From Relentless War
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
Massive Stolen Sculptures Recovered In Anaheim
After a mysterious warehouse heist last weekend, sculptures worth about $2 million were recovered on Friday night at a private house. - KTLA
Seattle’s Low-Income Artspace Seems To Be Falling Apart
“Artspace, the Minneapolis nonprofit that owns the lofts, sold the city on a vision: affordable housing that would help retain Seattle’s creative soul as...
Money And Status Aren’t Everything, Right?
Right? Uh … TV creators? - Chicago Tribune
Carefully, Carefully Trying To Adapt James Baldwin For The Stage
Adapting Giovanni’s Room hasn’t been easy. “The room is as much a metaphorical space as it is a physical location, marked by the feelings...
K-Dramas Are Actually A Cry For Help
“As the most popular Korean dramas are desperately trying to tell us, you can’t fix a first-world problem when crucial areas of your society...
The US Administration Has Effectively Killed The Voice Of America
“Once a Cold War-era powerhouse for U.S. diplomacy, the U.S. Agency for Global Media has been gutted under a Trump executive order — slashing...
That Guy In The White House Is Terrified Of Black Artistry And Culture
“Trump knows that culture in the hands of subjugated peoples is a political weapon that he can’t best. His lavish attempts at conjuring a culture via...
Inside The Courthouse Reshaping The Future Of The Internet
“While the FTC’s lawyers were calling witnesses against Meta in one courtroom, a nearby room was hosting arguments about whether Trump could fire two of...
Serious Summer Reading Lists From People Who Might Already Be On Your Serious Summer...
For instance, from David Nicholls: “I would recommend two books, 800 pages and a shade under 150, depending on what you can carry.” -...
What Brokeback Mountain Meant Twenty Years Ago, And What It Means Now
Director Ang Lee: “That movie made me feel there’s a movie God who loves me and wanted me to keep contributing to cinema.” -...
Authors Are Creating Time-Lapse Tik-Toks To Prove They Don’t Use AI
One young adult fantasy author “doesn't say a single word in the video, but her captions on the screen speak volumes. ‘Using GenAI to write...