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A Rare Happy Fairy Tale Ending For A Small Publisher
"Fans of the publisher World Editions, which has brought translations of work by Maryse Condé, Amin Maalouf, Pilar Quintana, Jaap Robben and Zhang Yueran to...
What Will New York’s Paper Magazine, Under New Ownership, Become Next?
First, look to its (storied) past: "With its mix of bubbly enthusiasm and Gen-X skepticism, Paper became the scrappy kid sibling to the argumentative Village Voice...
Hollywood Actors Aren’t Going On Strike – Yet
On Friday, SAG-AFTRA agreed to a nearly two-week contract extension. "Despite progress in talks, significant differences remain between the parties, which have sparred over how...
The Internet Is – Of Course – Blowing Up With Barbie Vs. Oppenheimer Memes
Social media has apparently turned marketing for the hyped movie Barbie into ... marketing for the grim movie Oppenheimer? "It's the dual movie experience...
Sometimes, You Just Want To Crawl Inside A Pipe Organ
At the Kennedy Center: "Enter the organ through a hidden passageway tucked into a side office, descend down a ladder into its belly, and...
Keeping The Long Secrets For A Creaky Hollywood Franchise
Karen Allen's cameo in the new Indiana Jones movie was a surprise - to the audience. For the actor, who had to keep quiet...
Jakob Hrusa Prepares To Take Over England’s Royal Opera House
The Czech conductor seems to think he's found the ideal spot. "Opera is kind of a pinnacle of what is possible to achieve in...
The Special, Brutal Sums That Underlie Chicago Theatre
"The desire to tell beautiful stories is still there, but the funding to support fair and livable compensation is not. Operating out of rental...
How Nimona Turned From Popular Graphic Novel To Netflix Film
Graphic novel writer ND Stevenson on what he wouldn't give up: The movie "was going to do its own little shapeshift, if you will,...
How Frederick Douglass Crafted, And Used, His Image To Help Fight Slavery
"He always dressed up for his photography, much like he did for his speeches. He wanted to create a dialogue with his photograph that...
What Theatre Audiences Want Now
"Theaters must think more expansively of themselves as communal spaces, not merely entertainment venues for stage presentations to ticket buyers; what does it mean to...
COVID Broke The Habit Of Going To The Theatre
Can anything - musicals, serious plays, popular actors, dramatic cuts to staff, or great bundles of tickets - fix this issue? Who knows? "Audiences...
TikTok Sells A Lot Of Books Through BookTok – And Maybe Now As A...
"By tapping into TikTok’s ability to drive attention to books and its vast trove of user data, ByteDance could boost its own authors at...
Amsterdam To Rename Its Hermitage Museum After Cutting Ties With Russia
"Starting in September, the Hermitage Amsterdam will be called H’ART Museum. It has established partnerships with the British Museum, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian...
Some Homeless Shelters Are Getting A Radical Redesign
"Severe stress can literally change the brain, affecting memory, coping skills and abilities to regulate emotions. Aware of just how much the physical environment can...
How Disney’s Creative Chief Went From Bullied Kid To Where She Is Now
Well ... she wrote and directed Frozen. "Now 51, Lee is warm, glossy and as successful as you can get. She no longer needs...
European Museums’ Numbers Appear To Be Rebounding Somewhat
A year after many European countries declared the COVID-19 emergency "over," museum attendance is ticking back up, at least domestically. Compared to 2019, at...
Meredith Monk At 80, In Amsterdam And Everywhere
"An interdisciplinary artist who doesn’t dabble in composition, performance, filmmaking and choreography so much as create from a Gesamtkunstwerk state of mind, ... Monk...
How A One-Person Play About Drinking Helped Its Actor Get Sober
André Royo (Bubbles in The Wire) on Drinking in America, sober: "My daughter never saw me act on stage before, so it was the...
The Canadian Teenager Who Made The Lego Scene In The New Spider-Man Movie
"The 14-year-old in Milton, Ont., was tapped to animate a scene in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse after his shot-by-shot recreation of the original trailer — stylized so that the characters...
Body Found In California Mountains Where Actor Julian Sands Went Missing
"The body was discovered at about 10am on Saturday in wilderness near Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel mountains and was transported to the...
How Art Can Influence Leadership, According To The Head Of The Mellon Foundation
Elizabeth Alexander: Art "has to start from a place of finding the truth: What is the light that you’re trying to share? Then, what does...
The American Academy Of Poets Names Its First Latino Head
"Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Maldonado is steeped in the American poetry scene. At the 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center, he has overseen...
In The UK, Giving More Little Kids Skills Through Shakespeare
"One nine-year-old girl is heard saying to her teacher: 'I'm absolutely sluggardized." A few weeks before, her year five class had been deciphering the...
A Century Ago, This So-Called ‘Female Impersonator’ Made Broadway Men Swoon
Julian Eltinge "represented a unique form of the art, one that emphasized fidelity to femininity instead of risqué repartee, outlandish outfits or high-energy lip...
