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The Importance Of A Great Editor
How Jeanette Winterson sold Oranges Are not the Only Fruit: Randomly, because she met at editor at a job interview. "Philippa said: ‘If you...
The Musical Tammy Faye Feels Like A True Redemption
Tammy Faye "is getting perhaps the gayest tribute a person can have: a Broadway musical,” one composed by Elton John. - The New York...
Trying To Rebuild The Oregon Shakespeare Festival After Some Extremely Rough Years
What worked in the past, that is, pre-pandemic, is coming around again - more marketing, more membership drives, more discounts, more repertory theatre. Can...
One Of Frank Sinatra’s Mansions Comes With A Whole Lot Of History
"Sinatra celebrated his return to bachelorhood by turning Farralone into the official headquarters of the Rat Pack’s poker games. During these alcohol-fueled gatherings, huge...
Yes, We Can Save Opera In The United States
And everywhere - by making it feel new again. Peter Gelb: “The solution to sustaining opera is through artistic reinvention, both with new operas...
How To Select Ten Books To Represent A Quarter Of A Century
“Once we got back about ten years, I had a much better sense of what had lasted, what was really lastingly good and not...
A Perennial Sidekick Gets Her Own Movie, Sort Of
Judy Greer “was just another victim of Hollywood’s tendency to stick accomplished actresses in so-called personal roles, playing the wives and mothers of the...
How You Leave The Christian Music Industry Without Losing Your Career
“Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic...
If You Look At Them Right, Every Oscar Film Is An Anti-Trump Experience
“If I can’t get my mind off current events even in a movie where acclaimed character actor Simon McBurney bites the head off a...
Streamers And Men’s Basketball Work Something Out After Legal Wrangling
A new settlement gives Warner Bros Discovery “a chance to keep professional basketball in its overall lineup, even as it cedes U.S. rights to traditional TV...
In Colorado, There’s No History Without Art
That is to say, “rather than treating art as mere decoration, History Colorado incorporates it as an essential storytelling tool, particularly when addressing challenging...
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus Renews Its Protests Of Wage Cuts
“The 32 paid choristers, represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, have not received a pay raise in years and their wages have...
Why Hollywood Suddenly Decided To Flip The May-December Romance Script
“Not so long ago, the entertainment industry tucked away women of a certain age on Sexless Mom Island while their male peers wooed girls...
Richard Flanagan Says He May Never Write Again
But that his most recent book is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes pleases him. “I thought much about my parents who, in...
Why Are Directors So Into Revamping Classics For A ‘New’ Broadway?
“Art leaves gaps that invite collaborative dreaming. That is one way Shakespeare manages to keep holding the mirror up to nature.” - Los Angeles...
Marvel Provides A Sort Of ‘Insurance’ For Actors Who Want To Make Indie Movies
At least that’s what Elizabeth Olsen, the woman who plays Wanda Maximoff, says. - Vulture
Chalk Another One Up For Bluesky
The social media site that’s been gaining new members by the million this week says that unlike Twitter (“X”), which has promised the opposite,...
Stop Hating Technology
The thing is, "We invent technology. Technology doesn’t invent us.” (Take that, “AI art.”) - Wired
The Prado, Always A Muse For Some Writers, Has Been Trying To Make That...
“The Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three to six weeks,...
The Playlist That Will Take You A Full Week To Hear
Really, it’s a musical installation, with speakers set up as far from each other as possible in a living room. “The idea is to...
Black Artists And Performers Claim Egypt For Africa At The Met
Artists got a PowerPoint’s worth of info, and then developed their music/dance/theatre/projection combos on their own. The Met “anticipates that many exhibition-goers will encounter...
Will That Guy Be Able To Sue The Media Into Complicity And Silence?
He’s already had his lawyers go after both The New York Times and Penguin Random House. - LitHub
Is This Art Exhibit A Sign Of Recent Union Organizing Strength?
Scabby the Labor Rat now has his own show in New York. - Hyperallergic
Spare A Thought For Historical Consultants, Often Completely Ignored By Movie And TV Directors
“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked...
Charlie Fishman, Music Promoter Who Died This Week, Made DC A Better Jazz Town
Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin...
