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Pamela Colman Smith, The Artist Behind The Bestselling Tarot Deck Of All Time
Perhaps unsuprisingly, The NYT didn’t give Colman Smith an obit when she died in the 20th century. But now: “An occult scholar ... commissioned...
Actor Miranda Otto On Mistakes And That Scene In Lord Of The Rings
And by “that” scene, we mean the stew scene, of course. - The Guardian (UK)
What Is John Mayer Planning To Do With Henson Studios?
Mayer and his business partner, filmmaker McG, have renamed it Chaplin Studios, and they’re not thinking small. “We’re doing our best to create kind...
Australian Teens And Their Parents Wonder If This Yearslong TV Project Will Ever Be...
“Future Fixers was billed as a glossy, family-friendly reality series. ... The show was part Shark Tank, part Lego Masters, and explicitly designed to put girls in...
What It’s Like For An Opera Singer To Retire From The Met
“Singers are tested by every performance, year after year. We are trained to make it look easy. It is never easy. We live through...
Jessie Buckley Says It Was A Bit Overwhelming To Be Playing Agnes In Hamnet
“I felt untethered. I didn't know where to go, you know, and then I realised that's incredibly human to be lost, and that is...
Victoria Jones, Daughter Of Tommy Lee Jones, Has Died At 34
“Victoria acted as a child opposite her father in Men in Black II in 2002 and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005.”...
Composer Stephen Schwartz Bows Out Of Hosting An Opera Gala At The Kennedy Center
Schwartz, who wrote English texts for Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, said, “Appearing there has now become...
Celebrities Dominated Broadway Stages in 2025
“Midtown marquees were packed with famous names from prestige cable (including more than one Succession sibling) and popular franchises. ... As theater continues to...
We’ve Hit The Multicity Tour Time Of Podcasting
Listening to a podcast is usually a solo experience. “Going to a theater to see these podcast performers live can feel like the exact...
After Four Years, Yuval Sharon Is Leaving The Detroit Opera
A budget on the brink is ending his contract two years earlier than planned. "They really tried to make it work. ...But it was...
Mass Market Paperback Books Are Disappearing
“You could be anybody of any kind of background. And for basically the equivalent of a dollar or two, you could be educated. You...
We May Finish A Book, But That Book Is Never Quite Finished With Us
“My books are teachers but also companions who know more than I do, and who in the long run wish me well. I would...
Muppet Christmas Carol Is A Classic, Sure, But It’s Also Got Some Real Narrative...
That’s because … drumroll, please, Animal … "Gonzo’s initial work on The Muppet Show was as a highly abstract performance artist who created acts the audience...
The Infamous Australian Prison’s Huge Record Collection
“The most remarkable records bear the hallmarks of the prison itself: a Bob Dylan album that was censored to remove the song ‘Desolation Row,’...
Kyiv’s Rebuilders Try To Retain Architectural Heritage In The Midst Of War
“A group of activists have been attempting to preserve the city’s crumbling mansions, built in a playful style known as Ukrainian modernism.” - The...
The Right To Repair Movement Had A Pretty Good Year
"For many advocates, the right to repair is an environmental issue. People are less inclined to throw gear into landfills if they can fix...
Vienna Stages A Gender-Bending Jazz-Age Operatic Work Banned By Franco
Benamor, by Pablo Luna, “featured cross-dressing characters and risqué humor that was largely tolerated during the Roaring Twenties in Madrid and premiered just months...
Jamie Lee Curtis Is Glad She Was Never A Child Star
“A producer wanted her to audition for The Exorcist. However, her mother, Janet Leigh, shut down the opportunity, protecting her then 12-year-old daughter from...
Robert Lindsey, Who Wrote The Falcon And The Snowman, Not To Mention Reagan’s And...
“Combining keen curiosity, dogged investigative skills and a gift for storytelling, he covered Hollywood, … presidential politics (capturing Richard M. Nixon’s first, albeit...
Wuthering Heights Can Never Be Successfully Filmed
Spoiler alert: “We are still calling it a love story – a great one! The greatest! It’s being released the day before Valentine’s Day!...
The Northern Hemisphere Is Cold, Dark, And Almost Out Of Holidays
The solution? Poetry. - The Atlantic
Arab Americans And Muslim Americans Don’t Have A Big Public Voice
But some TV shows are trying to fill the gap. - Seattle Times (AP)
Responding To The NYT’s Weird Article Praising Certain Regional Theatres
Nataki Garrett Myers, former artistic director of Oregon Shakes: “Neutrality is an illusion. What the article actually offers is a case study in how...
Don’t Blame Netflix For The End Of Cinema
If you must blame anyone, blame the Boomers, and Gen-X. “One lesson of 2025 may be that only younger people – children in particular...
