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The 1980s Centered A Neon-Colored End Of The World, And Now It’s All Coming...
Revisiting the 1980s, a decade whose “reality pulsed with cultural Balkanization, financial erosion, systemic disinvestment, and televised neurosis, the American theatre conjures a cultural...
An Appreciation For Kanya King, Who Changed And ‘Revolutionized’ Black British Culture
The founder of the Mobo Awards was “engaging, self-effacing, funny, modest. Someone with so much to brag about but who was so humble. Her...
The Four Musicals That Are Counting On Broadway Shows Finally Turning A Corner
“There's a big reason it takes years for a fresh musical to land on Broadway. Cracking any story is a painstaking process. The same...
Who’s Going To Win At The Tonys Tonight?
Can Jellicle Ball beat out the universally loved Ragtime? Will Lesley Manville’s British chops beat out Susannah Flood’s incredible performance in Liberation? Find out...
Anthony Stewart Head, Star Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Ted Lasso, Has Died...
“One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as...
The Story Of Hong Kong’s Popular Music Can Tell The Tale Of The City’s...
Cantopop is "predominantly Hong Kong music that blends Chinese and western pop sensibilities.” - The Guardian (UK)
A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War
“The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table...
Mary Shelley’s Sisters
“Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended...
Two And A Half Centuries On, Someone May Have Figured Out The Mystery Of...
Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in...
The UK’s Heirloom Ceramics Sector Is In Deep Trouble
“The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy” - but...
California And Other States Are Possibly Suing To Block The Warner Bros. And Paramount...
One advocate for the lawsuit: “The consequences would be felt nationwide, from destroying CNN the way that Ellisons have devastated CBS to entertainment industry...
The French Open Finals Courts Get Choreographed Ballet Dances For Some Reason
Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, no less. “Tennis doesn’t have a strong tradition of opening numbers — and certainly not of dance routines.” - The...
The Movie Cars Ruined Pixar
“Pixar plummeted to the ground with such a force that I began to question my undying devotion to an animation studio. Could my beloved...
A Century On, Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Vision Still Matters Intensely
“Her choreography landed like a bomb in a landscape where vaudeville and ballet ruled the day.” - The New York Times
Why Is There No Tony For Best Wigs?
Weird: “There’s an Oscar and an Emmy. I’ve been nominated for Emmys for TV stuff. Theater is literally the only area in our industry...
What Marjane Satrapi Did For Iranian Women
“Satrapi was a spokesperson for our trauma, our upbringing and our particular flavour of shame, repression and outspokenness. She made us legible to our...
The Kennedy Center’s Lawsuit Against Musician Who Refused To Play Christmas Eve Is Tossed...
“The judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier, wrote that the Kennedy Center failed to prove that Chuck Redd, a jazz musician and a host of...
The Effort To Save The Kennedy Center From This President Is Far From Over
“Fundamental questions about the institution’s leadership, finances, and artistic direction remain in flux. ‘It’s not clear if there’s any money to stay open with....
Dance Is Getting Its Moment – In Advertising
Why so much dance on TV lately? “Where the goal is to quickly get and then hold the viewer’s attention, energetic movement is a...
Newer Streamers, Even Ones From Well-Established Channels, Hope For An Emmy Boost
Peacock and Paramount+ have high hopes. “Emmy success can still bring tangible benefits. Even the commitment to campaigning can move the needle, especially for...
Ranking All Twenty-Two Films That Were In Contention For The Palme D’Or This Year
“The experience of watching so many movies over a twelve-day period coaxes your brain into a heightened state of pattern recognition, and you might...
Oakland Creatives Are Having A (Possibly Long Overdue) Heck Of A Year
“The Town has seen its homegrown talent reach new levels of success on the global stage, from figure skater Alysa Liu earning Olympic gold in Milan...
A Deeper Dive Into How That Book About The Problems Of AI Was Partly...
Um, ouf? “He doubled down on his personal commitment to AI, noting that he still uses it every day. … I asked him whether...
Over The Weekend, The British Museum Was Evacuated After Staff Found A ‘Suspicious’ Package
“The museum said it had also received what it described as ‘malicious communications’ before the evacuation.” - ARTnews
If We’re Really In A Reading ‘Crisis,’ Here Are Some Solutions
It’s not about the phones. Instead, as a society, we have to remove structural barriers - and build new libraries. "A democracy needs its...
