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Lynn Nottage And Her Daughter Are Creating Theatre, And Opera, Together
Ruby Aiyo Gerber to her mom: "For so long, I rebelled against wanting to be a writer, fearing that admiring any part of you...
The Bloody Past And Blurry Future Of The So-Called Digital Revolution In News
"The time has come for us to stop using the term 'digital revolution' in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on 'digital' and little...
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer And Self-Described Archaeologist Of Dance, 91
"A notation-based reconstruction movement took hold around the turn of the 21st century, but Lacotte — ahead of his time — had already been...
Perhaps Writers Don’t Actually Fetishize The Tools Of The Trade Enough
Tobias Wolff reflects on his unfilled notebooks and wonders, "At what point do the tools of writing go from functional objects in their own...
The Film Industry Is Pretty Much Gone, Says Jim Jarmusch, Who’s Releasing A Rock...
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some...
Can EDM Get Milliennials And Gen Z Into Classical Ballet?
That's a gamble the San Francisco Ballet is willing to make. - San Francisco Standard
If The Writers Strike, SNL Will Be Among The First Shows To Go
A May strike would hit late-night first, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and many other popular shows, but then start hitting at fall content -...
Creating An Entirely New Way To Save A Threatened Language
It was not exactly easy, but Brian Maracle "has figured out this improbable, but linguistically extremely smart, method of delivering this radically different language...
Wisconsin Has Some Tips On Building Statewide Local Theatre Connections
World Premiere Wisconsin was born in 2019 with three goals - connecting theatres, raising national awareness, and commissioning new work. Then came the pandemic,...
As Record Store Day Becomes An Institution, Young Fans Drive Vinyl Sales
In Britain, vinyl outsold CDs in 2022, and for some Gen-Z members, they're better than streaming too. One 19-year-old: "I think the sound quality's...
The Jazz Detective Who Unearthed Legendary Baltimore Recordings
Concerts at the Famous Ballroom "were recorded, mostly for the private archives of the Left Bank and for the artists. ... Only a handful...
The Stars Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’ Defend Their Coworker Over A Sexual Assault Story
Actor David Choe says he made up a rape story for a podcast. Beef creators and stars stated, "We’re aware David has apologized in...
How One Woman Amassed A 10,000-Movie Pan-African Film Archive
When June Givanni, a Black British archivist, activist, and curator, "received the British independent film awards’ grand jury prize in 2021, the organisers said that she...
The New Hampshire Muffin Mural That’s Challenging A Definition Of Public Art
High school art students painted a bakery at the owner's invitation - but "the painting was cited by the town code enforcement officer in...
A Dancer Nearing 60 Says He’ll Never Leave The Profession
Noam Gagnon, who runs dance company Vision Impure, is premiering a solo work online at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. "My physicality is still...
A German Photographer Who Won For An AI Photo Turns Down The Award
Boris Eldagsen says, "It was not about winning anything. ... I have been a photographer for 30 years before turning to AI and I’m...
Paul McCartney Makes Billboard, At Last
That is to say, "the former Beatle debuts on two of Billboard’s dance charts with a new single titled 'Say Say Say'" - his first time...
Who Are The Newly Christened Best Young British Novelists?
"The class of 2023 are the children of “terror and the war on terror,' of credit crunch and austerity, too young to have known...
Streaming And Notifications Have Begotten New Spoiler Etiquette
Thanks a lot, news feeds and alerts, for not doing a better job with Succession. - Washington Post
The Return Of The RomCom
The popular genre, derided and outcast from the movie theatres for a while, has made a return - but with different values, and often...
Podcasts Are On YouTube Now
So are they Tubecasts? PodTube? Anyway, "more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer to watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to audio-only version," and...
Hollywood Writers Vote This Week On Whether To Allow A Strike
"The strike authorization vote is meant to turn up the heat on companies such as Netflix and Walt Disney and convince them to raise...
TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban
"Cutting off Americans’ access to one of their favorite sources of information and entertainment would be legally and constitutionally dubious. Worse still, it would...
On Broadway, Fans Gathered As Phantom Ended
"The audience, which included Lin-Manuel Miranda, cheered not only the entrance of each principal performer, but also the first sightings of signature props, including...
The Outsize Power Of The Short Story In Literature
Agents and publishers might quail, but "a good story conveys a sense of more going on in the background, more to be discovered. We choose to return to...
