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What It’s Like To Play Princess Di And Then Come Out As Nonbinary
Emma Corrin: "It’s hard to be discovering something in yourself at the same time you’re navigating an industry that demands a lot of you."...
Found: A Recording Of 18-Year-Old Stephen Sondheim’s College Musical
It's called Phinney's Rainbow, and Sondheim was a sophomore in college when he wrote and mounted it in 1948. "It's the stuff of legend...
Playwright Lynn Nottage Has Been Running A Theatrical Marathon All Year
The writer of Sweat and the most-produced play of this year, Clyde's, had three productions in New York this year. She says, "The mindfulness...
How Two Norwegian Students Accidentally Created TikTok’s Favorite Sounds
Twenty years ago, high school students Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Soderholm created "nightcore." But it didn't take off until TikTok kicked into...
New Theory: Children Made Stone-Age Owl-Like Carvings
"Archaeologists have previously suggested that they were symbols of goddesses that were placed on deceased people as a burial offering. It is debated whether...
The True Cost Of A Twitter Implosion
"There are whole nations whose political discourse occurs mainly on Twitter. The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses...
Ukraine Detains Eight People Over Banksy Theft
According to Kyiv's governor, "'The image is in good condition and in the hands of the authorities.' Other works in the area thought also...
How A Sync Made A 1985 Song A Hit In 2022
Instead, it took a lot of planning and some carefully waged campaigns. "While syncs have previously boosted older singles, they’ve never generated this level...
On Writing Memoir-ish Fiction And Reader Complaints About Not Enough Sex
Elif Batuman "expects from any book, her own included, nothing less than a real-time experiment in how we should think and live." - Paris...
Why Isn’t Season 5 Of ‘The Crown’ Damaging Charles?
Well, let's be honest: He just (finally) became king. Britain is not having the popular series' narrative anymore. (Also ... he's played by Dominic...
Mourning Los Espookys
Maybe HBO wasn't quite ready for a show that is creators couldn't even describe. "Imagine 'Scooby-Doo' as written by Jorge Luis Borges and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and...
Amazon Wants To Join The Big Movie Studios In The Theatres
The company says it plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies to be released in theatres - that's 12-15 theatrical releases a...
A British Filmmaking Company Had To Help Its Ukrainian Office Evacuate During The War
January was bad, very bad, timing for British company Breakthru Films to open an painting animation studio in Kyiv. - The Observer (UK)
DVDs Built Netflix, But The Red And White Envelopes Are Quickly Dying
"It might be easy to assume that anyone still paying to receive DVDs through the mail is a technophobe. ... But subscribers say they...
It’s Past Time For This Rebel Poet To Seize Her Place In History
Poet tatiana de la tierra produced one-of-a-kind chapbooks scrounged from cardboard and recycled paper, and her "writing itself was just as singular — unassimilated...
The Museum Of Broadway Reveals The Show Behind The Shows
Theatre history dreams: "The Broadway timeline itself is two floors filled with pictures and artifacts –costumes, props, documents – illustrating the history of New...
But Wait, These ‘Roman Forgeries’ Aren’t Fake At All
There was reason to think the gold coins weren't Roman: "A fraudster in Vienna frequently duped collectors in the 18th century, when the coins...
As The Museum Of London Prepares To Move, The City Of London Prepares To...
As the museum prepares to move, the City of London would really like to demolish the old building. But "this is a test case...
The Pirate Radio Station That Changed British Radio
"Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae music in the UK, Lepke setup a mast in his back garden and began to broadcast...
How Did Alexa And The Echo Start To Drag Down Amazon?
In a word, sales. "Some much-heralded device innovations, like the ability to place Amazon orders via Alexa, have failed to win over a dedicated...
Stop Looking For The Next Austen
"When we go in search of new Austens or Brontës, we’re imagining we’ll find novels that remind us positively of theirs. We claim we’re...
WALL-E The Movie Got One Thing Alarmingly Correct
That is the prevalence of screens. They're just ... everywhere, all the time. - Slate
When A Musician Is Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Can Fans Get Refunds?
No, say Arcade Fire fans, or former fans as frontman Win Butler faces at least five accusations. "The ticket retailers, tour promoters, and even...
For Suzan-Lori Parks, Theatre Creates Reality Just As Much As The Reverse
"Parks was on set as the writer for a TV show that had to go on hiatus when COVID hit. So she just started...
The Art, Flow, And Waste Of Fast Fashion
Or, why you might get money back for that wrong-sized T-shirt that a large online retailer doesn't even want back. - The New York...
