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How A 1972 Production Of Godspell Changed The Comedy World Forever
Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood, Andrea Martin, and Paul Shaffer all walked into a theatre. This is a (rollicking)...
Zelensky And The Art Of Storytelling
The comedian-turned-president's video dispatches "have done more than win Ukraine moral and military support. They have created a serialized manifesto—one that makes the case...
Groups Invade The Red Carpet At Cannes To Protest Violence Against Women
Sunday's group was "carrying a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held. The group,...
Iran Tightens The Screws On Its Filmmakers
During a crackdown over general protests about food prices, the government has arrested or threatened many documentary filmmakers. The government take credit for...
The Former KKK Warehouse That’s About To Become An Arts Center
In Fort Worth, the site of at least one brutal lynching is set to become a space for "arts and community healing." - Hyperallergic
The Attention Arms Race
All that glitters is not pepperoni. It's not just advertisers competing with each other on Instagram, it's TikTok competing with Netflix competing with YouTube...
Let’s Talk About These Concert Holographs
Sure, ABBA are doing it now, but what's next - recreated Liszt concerts? (We'd probably need video for that - but who knows what...
Jhumpa Lahiri Explains Why Italo Calvino Is So Beloved Outside Of Italy
"Let’s start with his Italian (or non-Italian) identity, an Italianness always tilting toward the Other. These are some biographical facts (with which he loved...
The UK Production Book Is Actually Harming Indie Filmmakers
The boom is for high-end streamers, really, and "has created a scarcity of resources, from crew and soundstages to generators and actors (one agent...
Did A 1990s Sitcom Warn Us About Amazon, Or Essentially Tell Us To Give...
The problem with the cutesy Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks Nora and Delia Ephron-penned You've Got Mail has always been that the person warning about the...
How Composer Vangelis Blew Up Musical Categories
His band Aphrodite's Child created "1972’s astonishing double concept album 666, which delivered 77 minutes of wildly experimental music that touched on jazz, proto-metal,...
A Stolen De Kooning Is Back, But It Sure Looks Different
True, Woman - Ochre has been recovered and restored. But that's not the issue. "The artwork’s return to view raises the question of to...
Idea: Stitch A Divided Country Back Together Through National Service
This seems almost hopelessly idealistic. But given a country that seems to be nearing some forms of civil war, "it’s tragic that no politician...
In Los Angeles, A Dance Program For Low Income Kids Continues To Thrive
Everybody Dance LA! is "an almost-too-good-to-be-true program founded more than 20 years ago by a grieving mother who believed that things should not remain unequal —...
Mozart’s Requiem, Amid Medical Supplies And Air Raid Sirens, In Lviv
Orchestra director Iolanta Pryshlyak, who also coordinates a flow of medical and humanitarian supplies, said, "War makes your heart like a stone. ... But...
The Art Of, And By, Whimsy
A Russian artist now based in London says using clotheslines and clothing - and deliberately framing them in landscapes - may help us "slow...
Bolshoi Star Olga Smirnova, Now In The Netherlands, Fears For Her Former Co-Workers
"Even at the height of the Cold War, ballet tours were seen as a bridge between the USSR and the West. But after the Russian...
An Actor From JAWS Is About To Become Police Chief
And not just of any town, but of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, where the movie was filmed. "Decades ago, a young Searle played one...
Summer Reading, Part II – Vacation Books
What are they good for, and what do we want from them? - The New York Times
Cannes Bumped Up Its Number Of Women Filmmakers This Year
It's a record number! Er ... of five. Five out of 21 directors. One said, "We feel a lot of pressure, as if we...
Viewers Are Watching Ad-Full TV Again, With No Complaints
Perhaps it's the higher cost of living and inflation, but as Netflix's subscriber base drops, the ad-supported streamers rise. Streamer Tubi's chief: "The business...
Summer Reading, Part I
Leila Mottley "started working on Nightcrawling shortly before her 17th birthday, and finished the first draft in a few months." - The New York...
A Ukrainian Director Killed In April Had A Documentary Premiere At Cannes
"A few days after the city itself fell to invading Russian forces, Kvedaravičius’ fiancée Hanna Bilobrova fought back tears as she introduced the film,...
Agnieska Holland Is Furious That Cannes Accepted A Film From Russia
Holland is the European Film Academy president. "The Polish-born director – who fled to France in 1981 when Communist authorities imposed martial law –...
Why Art Prices Are Shooting Toward The Stratosphere
To be blunt, the rich have gotten richer during the pandemic, and continue to do so. - The Guardian (UK)
