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The Spanish Artist Creating A Visual Memory Of Fascism’s Horrors
“People were repressed into silence during the dictatorship and they couldn’t talk about the tragedies in their lives for 40 years. And it’s even...
Why Broadway Performers Make A Hot, Buggy Summer Trek West To St. Louis’s Muny
The Muny seats 11,000 people, in a bug-prone, humidity-drenched St. Louis outdoor theatre. It’s getting a Tony tonight. - The New York Times
Need A Guide To Surviving Hard Times?
Try this 40-year-old kids’ movie. Beneath The Goonies’ "awkward stereotypes and slapstick humor from 1985 lies powerful messaging about what it means to belong,...
How, And Why, Emmy Nominees Ply Their Trade
Javier Bardem: "This is a job, and you just do the job as good as you can with your own limitations. You put everything...
Juggling The Tension Between A Writer’s Creative Vision And Historical Trauma
“I understood the didactic logic of forcing the reader to intellectually and emotionally live through those brutal moments, but the personal distance nagged at...
Scorsese Is Finished With Cinemas
And that’s thanks to us, the great unwashed movie audience: He "explained that he found himself too distracted by the chat and mobile-phone disturbance...
Misty Copeland, Whose Groundbreaking Career Was So Improbable, Is Retiring From ABT
“It’s never been about me. It should never have been about me. It should have been about a broader understanding that people from Black and...
Post-Apocalyptic Theatre
Performance, after the cataclysm, is a common theme in science fiction books and shows. That includes, in one of the genre's most literary forms,...
Why The Time Was Right For George Clooney’s Broadway Play To Get Broadcast On...
"The pressures that deformed the news in Murrow’s day have only grown more intense, and its defenses weaker. The last line of protection is...
Loretta Swit, Who Played Major Houlihan On M*A*S*H, Has Died At 87
“Sally Kellerman played Houlihan in the movie version and Swit took it over for TV, eventually deepening and creating her into a much fuller...
Is AI Coming For Backstage Jobs?
Or, excuse us, we mean, is it bringing a “revolution” to theatre? - The Stage (UK)
The Effort In Indonesia To Install Beautiful Microlibraries Everywhere
“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in...
The Newest Hint That There’s Strong Interest In Off-Broadway Shows
“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly...
Reality TV, You May Not Be Surprised To Know, Distorts Our View Of Who...
A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American...
Los Angeles Opera Names Its New Music Director
"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times...
Renee Victor, Voice Of Abuelita In Coco, Has Died At 88
“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger...
Playing A Regal, Demanding Musician Doesn’t Make One Regal Or Demanding
Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and...
What’s Going To Happen When We Can Translate Animal Languages?
“Speaking whale would expand our sense of space and time into a planetary song. I imagine we’d think very differently about polluting the ocean...
How The National Poet For Wales Got From Public Housing To The Big Stage
Hanan Issa: “Growing up, she said she never saw writing as a viable career: ‘I'm working class, raised in a council house and to...
A New Book Aims To Help Drag Performers When They’re Under Attack
The - sadly necessary - new handbook “contains best practices for dealing with everything from online doxing to bomb attacks.” - NPR
The Man Who Brings Celebs To Broadway
Director Jamie Lloyd, who’s brought Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway, says, “It’s about creating an event rather than just a theater...
After Years Of Work, California Was Ready To Fund The Performing Arts
“The Equitable Payroll Fund is designed to support arts programs in dozens of small nonprofit organizations, from live theatre to orchestras, operas, chorus, and...
What Taylor Swift’s Latest Victory For Musicians And The Whole Industry
Swift knows why: "Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this...
The Billion Ways Fans Love The Pride And Prejudice Soundtrack
At the 20th anniversary party’s live soundtrack piano performance, “a hush swept through the room, and people held up their phones to record. Two...
What Makes For A Good Summer Movie?
“A great summer movie is really like going on vacation.” - NPR
