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So, Turns Out We Might Have Been Completely Wrong
Cool cool: A “new law of nature” upends everything we thought we knew about time, evolution, and (perhaps) life in the rest of the...
The Soul Of A Video Game Turned Smash Hit TV Show Comes From Its...
The Last of Us composer Gustavo Santaolalla: "I think the fact that we kept the sonic fabric — that we didn’t do an orchestral...
Prominent Lawyers Join The Fight Against Paramount’s Planned Settlement With The President
“Late Thursday, the two attorneys sent a strongly worded letter to Paramount’s chairworman and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and other board members arguing that...
A Pianist From Hong Kong Wins The Cliburn For The First Time
Aristo Sham won the gold, with U.S. pianist Evren Ozel taking the bronze. - Dallas Morning News
Booker Winner Bernadine Evaristo Wins Another Big Award, Plans To Donate It
“I’m still very alert to the inequality in the world, and also inequality in my industry. I am not there to endorse the status quo....
How To Identify And Handle Green Books, Some Of Which Are Literally Poisonous
We’re talking actual arsenic: "In recent years, many libraries have prevented access to all suspect green books as a precaution." - The Guardian (UK)
The Wild Chinese Sports Movie That Explains How US-Chinese Relations Have Changed
“What began as a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports has turned into a symbol of just how little China and the U.S....
What Can We Expect From Tonight’s Tony Awards?
“Singing robots. Undead frenemies. A dead train robber, and a dying cave explorer. A fumbling group of spies, and a bumbling group of pirates....
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...
