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Why Did Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Suddenly Appear On Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy?

Turns out the youth are going to be putting on this play for … pretty much ever? “Our Town just sort of felt like this perfect, simple, rich story about the human experience and about time.” - Reactor

Dakota And Elle Fanning Started Out As Child Stars In Hollywood

But the sisters are following in the footsteps of leaders like Reese Weatherspoon and Viola Davis, becoming producers who have more control over their projects and performances. - El País English

Native Artist Hand-Stitches ‘Bead Bomb’ Projects Onto Utility Poles In LA

”At the edge of a Home Depot parking lot where federal immigration agents have violently detained vendors and others,” a utility pole “carries a band of color with a fluorescent sheath ... made up of 10,000 pony beads spelling a message in block letters: ‘FUCK ICE.’” - Los Angeles Public Press

In A Time Of Lies, Sudden Wars, And AI Hallucinations, We Desperately Need Live Performance

“The performing arts, with their warm embrace of subjectivity, might not seem the most likely corrective amid this crisis. But they have much to teach us about the notion of truth.” - The New York Times

What’s On The Line As Warner Bros Accepts Paramount’s Bid

Oh: “The push into artificial intelligence by Oracle creates a thirst for more insight into how people view news and entertainment and what products they buy online. The streaming channels and social media giant both offer greater and more granular information." - NPR

Epstein Was Asked, Briefly, To Finance A Dick Cavett Biography

Luckily for Cavett, "the documentary was never made because WNET completed a background check on Mr. Epstein and decided it did not want him involved.” - The New York Times

Baz Luhrmann Can’t Stop Making Movies About Elvis Presley

Luhrmann’s new Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert “is far from the conventional concert movie its title implies,” thanks to a 40-minute never before released audio tape and a few private collectors deals that Luhrmann calls "going to see gangsters in car parks at midnight.” - The Guardian (UK)

New York Gets A New Culture Czar At A Fraught Economic Moment

Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Diya Vij a "visionary and deeply thoughtful leader who understands that art is not ornamental to this city — it is essential to it.” - The New York Times

The Writers Guild Awards Are Cancelled Thanks To A Staff Strike

Sure, there may be an “alternative celebration” later, but basically, “with 115 Writers Guild of America staffers still on strike after months of contract talks with the writers’ union led to no deal, the WGA West has cancelled its annual Writers Guild Awards.” - The Wrap

In South Florida, Two Public Media Giants Are Battling It Out In Court

It’s South Florida Public Media Group versus a South Florida NPR school board affiliate, playing out both at the FCC and in the Miami-Dade County Court. - Inside Radio

Who’s Going To Pay Out For The Kevin Spacey Cancellation And Implosion Of House Of Cards?

“The question at the center of the case: What actually killed Spacey’s appearance from the sixth season of the show? … A win for MRC will have major implications for production insurance coverage moving forward.” - The Hollywood Reporter

Benjamin Millepied’s New, Mixed-Genre Romeo And Juliet Comes To The Armory

The choreographer: “You fall in love with characters that you see live in the flesh, in front of your eyes. … But then when the camera brings you close to them, it creates a different kind of intimacy.” - The New York Times

The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More

The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that "the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” - Los Angeles Times

A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony

Klaus Mäkelä is "stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” - Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)

The Vatican Has Removed ‘A Chalky White Film Of Salt’ Coating The Last Judgement

That is to say, people’s sweat had gotten all over Michelangelo’s masterpiece, and now it’s being cleaned off while the sweat accumulates on a screen. - Associated Press

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