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Broadway’s Edgy Revival Of Oklahoma! Has Encountered Fierce Audience Reception Around America

Some performances of the Tony-winning production have continued amid clamorous walkouts or loud booing; one ended with a patron running from their seat and vomiting at a volume clearly audible to the actors. - Los Angeles Times

World’s Architects Are Flocking To Saudi Arabia To Try Their Most Inventive Ideas

For architects, Saudi Arabia has become Shangri-La, a place to test their wildest and wackiest ideas. - The Wall Street Journal

The Joys Of Hunting For Fossils In DC

No, not the human kind. "The District was, all jokes aside, a lush swamp back in the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, muck-dwelling mollusks and megalodons patrolled the humid wetland" - and left their mark. - NPR

Earning Disparities Persist For ‘Non-Professional’ Artists

A new study shows that artists who are women and/or BIPOC earn about 23 percent less than white men, even in the non-professional creative economy - that is, the "side hustle" economy of writers, photographers, and social media content producers. - Fast Company

Goodnight Moon At 75

Jacqueline Woodson: "The ‘goodnight nobody’ always caught me by surprise and made me think ... I thought in including that ‘Goodnight nobody’ spread, Hurd and Brown were telling a quiet truth about emptiness and the world." - LitHub

Paul Newman, In His Own Words

Why a new biography now, 14 years after the star actor died? "The book is assembled from five years’ worth of interviews that the actor gave, between 1986 and 1991, to Stewart Stern, the screenwriter. ... The interviews were presumed lost; those transcripts were only recently recovered." - The New York Times

A Timeline Of When Artist Ben Sakoguchi Was Excluded From The California Biennial

It's not a simple tale. The Orange County Museum of Art asked him what to say to viewers who were made uncomfortable. He responded, "I’ve never believed my role as an artist was to make work that ensured comfort, ... My paintings are purposefully subject to alternate interpretations." - Artnet

How Director Park Chan-Wook Channels Hitchcock

"The mystery genre, Park’s chosen conduit this time around, scratches an existential itch in the human condition, he thinks. Since our lives overflow with enigmas — the meaning of our birth, what comes after death, why the people around us behave as they do — we long for certainty." - Los Angeles Times

Artistic Communes Aren’t A Gen-Z Invention

Just ask the writers of the 18th century like Coleridge and Shelley (perhaps not Mary Shelley, whose experience was, well, different). - The Guardian (UK)

The Incredible Lightness Of Becoming A Ballet Star

Unity Phelan, who made three debuts in one week this seasons, says, "I always try to keep it light even when I’m just stressed out ... I think if I can convince myself that it’s OK, then I am OK." - The New York Times

Italian TV And Movies Are On An Export High

Those exports are still relatively rare, but the increase is notable. "Significantly, half of the 48 titles exported by Italy around the world over the past five years were distributed by global streamers." - Variety

How Poet Jorie Graham Is Dealing With The Long Climate Emergency

Graham gives her readers the possibility of "adaptation and radical witness. Her language and poetic structure adapt to her changing world and reality, and never succumb to denial." - The Rumpus

Oh No, John Cleese, What Happened To You?

John Cleese told the BBC, on the BBC, that the BBC probably wouldn't let him speak. "In a previous appearance, also on the BBC, he expressed the... opinion that there wasn’t enough debate about issues of free speech these days. Then ... he curtly terminated the conversation." - Irish Times

Go Ahead, Buy That Piano

"Some things in life are meant to be heavy and indebting and antiquated; they are meant to demand regular and highly specialized maintenance; they are meant to bring forward the weight of the past." Hence, in adulthood, a piano. - The Atlantic

Is The Royal Society Of Arts Forcing Out Unionizing Workers?

A staffer who spoke to The Observer last week was fired, and others were told not to say anything about the union in public. "The move appears to have backfired, however, with six staff members signing up to the union last week." - The Observer (UK)

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