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Upending A Sacred Broadway Tradition Brought One Musical To A Much Wider Audience
That is to say, fan videos of Six made it a megahit. The closing number was "written specifically to be recorded and shared on...
Nobel Prize Winners Demand The Release Of Belorussian Peace Laureate
"More than 100 Nobel laureates, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have called for the release of Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and...
Why Does Voicemail Refuse To Die?
What? "If its full storage capacity was purposed for music, a modern iPhone or Samsung Galaxy could hold hundreds of thousands of downloaded songs,...
The Landscape In Hollywood Had To Shift For ‘American Born Chinese’ To Get Made
"When I was growing up, it was a few networks trying to appeal to tens of millions of viewers, but ... look at...
The New Little Mermaid Has Responsibilities
Halle Bailey says she would have liked having a Black little mermaid when she was a kid. "That would have changed my whole perspective,...
It’s The People You Meet Along The Way
That is, along the way of your quest to succeed at Zelda games, of course. "For me, it's been a way to begin to...
City Ballet Finally Has An Asian American Woman Principal
Mira Nadon, who's 21: "That's exciting for me to have some responsibility and feel like I can do something to help ... the culture...
Stage Fright? Check Out What Katharine Hepburn Felt Like
The actress was basically terrified of audiences. "Now and again she’d puke in the wastebasket, because she was so wired and scared and 'Oh...
Production Companies Arrow In On Mexico City As The Next Big Spot
There are scenes of designers turning the Xochimilco canals into the Ganges River and much more, as "American and European companies send TV and...
At Least One Performer Camps All Month For The Edinburgh Fringe Fest
The money-saving measure is "not as grim as it sounds," the comedian says. But performers are almost entirely priced out of the city -...
How Much Nazi-Looted Art Is Still Hanging In Britain And Belgium?
Belgium once claimed it had finished its work on looted art in 2001. But no, says one museum director. "I can say without hesitation,...
Natalie Portman Is Tired Of Double Standards At Cannes
At the French film festival, women are required to wear heels on the red carpet, for one thing. Portman: "The expectations are different on...
We Get More, Not Less, Creative Over Time
But it's all about persistence, not fairy dust: "The serial-order effect applies to tasks that last minutes or days, but creativity also improves across...
What’s The Impact Of The SCOTUS Decision About Warhol’s Prince?
Don't stress, artists: "What the majority actually had problems with — what the decision was mostly about — was the Warhol Foundation’s failure to...
What It’s Like To Be A Filmmaker, Artist, And Activist
Kate Levy says she loves "to tear into hypocritical institutions or political actors who rely on oppressive yet hokey, family-first, nice people, I’m-just-doing-my-job narratives....
Why Does ‘Boheme’ Never Seem To Get Old?
"I love Puccini’s auspicious score, its bustling crowd of little melodies that converge and mature into themes that seem to hold a whole life. I...
What Are All Of Those Skyscrapers Doing To New York?
Sinking it. "The researchers estimated the weight of all of New York City’s buildings to be around 842 million tons," and there's some soil...
Stuffy, Stereotypical, And Stunningly Time-Saving
That's what Google's new chatbot can be, at least according to one author, who let it write some wedding-related emails. And it's really, really...
What Will Happen To Fall TV With The Writers Strike
For one thing, "sports will lead the TV marketplace this year, especially if advertisers can’t get the audiences they want in a strike-hampered prime...
What It Feels Like To Write A Book In A Language Your Parents Can...
"Wanting to write ... made me unintelligible to my mother. I couldn’t explain how I would survive on a career in words, and she...
The Future Of Movie Theatres
A former top lobbyist says that he thinks the future for cinemas is actually kind of bright. "I think the existential challenges — the...
British Novelist Martin Amis Has Died At 73
Amis "was among the celebrated group of novelists including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, whose works defined the British literary scene in...
Cannes Ready For Stars, But Braces For Protests
"The CGT union has vowed to make its presence felt -- threatening last month that it would cut power during the festival and announcing...
How, And Why, R. F. Kuang’s Satirical New Novel Came About
Kuang, author of bestseller Babel, says her new novel came to her almost fully formed. "Publishing was going through what seems like all these...
Cities Are Still Misusing Classical Music To Harass The Unhoused
This is twisted. A variety of cities and governmental departments "are using an art form once thought to carry humanity’s highest ideals to hide...
