Record tickets sales in Chicago's Theatre Week may indicate - finally - something's going OK for the COVID-bitten profession. - Daily Herald (Illinois)
"My capacity for speaking German is not unlike imagination or good writing: Believe hard enough and the genie reappears. But belief also cannot be faked or summoned. It can falter, prove you wrong." - LitHub
"The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) collectively called on Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art to reverse course." - Hyperallergic
Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand, written and published in Hindi, pushed Western readers and critics to learn about the deep diversity of Indian literature that wasn't written in English. - The New York Times
What happens to the subjects of these series years later - and what about when the series get bought by streaming services, and everything is stirred up again? There's a documentary about that. - The Observer (UK)
The Netflix series My Dad the Bounty Hunter's Patrick Harpin: "The theme park ... was a way that kids have an entry point to understanding . I’m laughing, I’m having fun, but this is ridiculously horrible, what is doing. It’s a dark reveal." - Los Angeles Times
A couple found scripts and call sheets in their attic and gave them to an auctioneer - but health issues related to original Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew's height, his widow said, had made it impossible for him to get the attic cleared when they moved. - BBC
Of course Tony Award-winning Garth Fagan, now 82, did a lot more in his career than The Lion King. He's "a Jamaican-born choreographer known for threading ballet training and discipline into his Afro-Caribbean movement." - The New York Times
Along with racism, and other setbacks in her industry,"It’s something that can either make you bitter ... or it’s something you can look at, not take personally, then push against." - The Guardian (UK)
He was the group's second artistic director, after Bill Rauch left for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. "Upon arrival he helped to define a new six-production series, the Justice Cycle, which explored how laws shape and disrupt communities." - American Theatre
All but one of the documentaries (though that one's the frontrunner) debuted at Sundance 2022 - "a testament to just how vital the fest is to the nonfiction genre." - Variety
He says he's "not a young conductor anymore" - and now, "he is working to establish himself as a seasoned interpreter of the repertory — a maestro fluent in the symphonies of Mahler and Beethoven as well as less common fare." - The New York Times
Seacat "put her own spin on techniques she had learned under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio to help Laura Dern, Marlo Thomas, Mickey Rourke and numerous other stars achieve some of their best performances." - The New York Times
