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A 10-Year-Old Didn’t Want To Do Homework, So She Wrote A Score Instead
Then her mom posted it to TikTok, asking musicians to perform it. So far? "In the following days, musicians played the score on a...
Conservative Legislators In Tennessee, And Many Other States, Are Attempting To Crush Drag Performances
In their deeply hostile "think about the children" anti-drag legislation, they may be also trying to crush theatre. - The New York Times
As Other Art Houses Across The Country Take Hits, Las Vegas Gets A Blinged-Out...
It's an art house fever dream, including "the theatrical lighting rig, the pencil mics that descend from the ceiling for post-screening Q&A sessions and...
What It’s Like To Be Hard Of Hearing In The Theatre
It's hard. "Across the board, the HOH artists I interviewed expressed their frustration over accommodations having slipped through the cracks—from cast mates refusing to...
Amazon Pauses Construction On DC-Area Headquarters
"The project impacted encompasses three 22-story office towers and 'The Helix,' a dystopian 'corporate conference center' and excellent place to die. So far, developers...
The Costs, And Contradictions, Of Ballet
"We smile while bearing the full weight of our body en pointe for hours. 'Blood builds character, one of my teachers said. ... Yet...
Creating A Score For The Third Try At A German WWI Movie
Volker Bertelmann: "When I saw the film the first time, I was thinking I need an instrument from that time. And then my studio...
Aging In Hollywood Isn’t Easy
And in some ways, says actor Mimi Rogers, it's even harder on writers than on actors. "Biases and double standards are still firmly in...
Institutions Like Museums Have A Hard Time Changing Their Historically Racist Ways
And that's not an accident, says former Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator eunice bélidor: "I realized they didn’t care about what I was...
The Argument For A Four-Day Workweek Gains Traction
A massive new study shows that, at least for white-collar companies including advertising agencies and consulting firms, it's a good deal for employees and...
Pierre Apraxine, Who Transformed The Met’s Photography Collection, 88
"Born into exiled Russian nobility and numbering among his forebears an admiral who served under Peter the Great, Mr. Apraxine had trained in classical...
Canadian Police Make Arrests In Years-Long, Massive Forgery Investigation
The wide-reaching fraud included three separate groups that traded fake Norval Morrisseau paintings back and forth and created fake certificates of authenticity. More than...
Everything You Want To Know About The Oscars, If You’re Not Tired Of This...
For instance: "The likely wipeout for Steven Spielberg’s drama about his parents’ divorce would indicate the Oscars are no longer in thrall to big...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once Continues Its Historic Run
The sci-fi domestic challenges immigrant multiverse comedy-drama (yes, all of that) "led all films this year with eight nominations and a won a total...
Chatbots Are The Final Vindication Of Ask Jeeves
"In a sense, Bing and Bard are finishing what Ask Jeeves started. What people want when they ask a question is for an all-knowing,...
Barnes And Noble Has Revved Into Expansion Mode
It's even taking over abandoned Amazon bookshops. - NPR
Film And Digital Video Desperately Need Preservation Focus, Skills, Funding
"To indefinitely continue access to the ever-expanding glut of content – not just an invaluable artistic heritage, but a crucial account of how the...
Brain Science May Explain Why We Like Certain Works Of Art
Some neuroscientists believe "that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements. Basic features, such as color and texture,...
India Used To Have More Than 25,000 Single-Screen Cinemas
"India's single-screen cinemas were grand structures, built to accommodate large audiences and boasted diverse architectural styles." Now, only a few thousand remain, and they're...
Is Canada’s New Streaming Bill Going To Change The Game?
Right now, "online broadcasters like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify ... are earning money in Canada without being required to reinvest in Canadian content."...
How Jonathan Majors And Michael B. Jordan Fought On The Movie Set, Without Fighting...
Majors, whose star is rising fast right now, was worried that Jordan - already a superstar - might not be great to work with,...
Who Benefits From Saudi Arabia’s New Art Scene?
"Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a...
This Was, And Is, Pompeii
New excavations make the ancient site fresher than ever. But people have been digging at the site ever since the lava cooled."It has always...
How Did Jonathan Majors Get To Be In Every Movie, Everywhere, All At Once?
It all started when he was forced to take a theatre class after getting in trouble as a kid. - NPR
It’s Super Secret Oscar Ballot Season
And, from the super secret ballots revealed in their entirety here, it sure looks like Todd Field is going to win Best Director for...
