One big reason that the Tony-winning playwright of The Inheritance has been reluctant to revisit this script, titled Reverberation, is that it's the last play he wrote before getting sober. And where López calls his gay romcom screenplay Red, White & Royal Blue a "joy-bomb," Reverberation is more like an A-bomb. - The Guardian
Kris Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken humanitarian and activist. But at base, he was a thinker-poet who pushed country music in existentialist directions. - The Atlantic
"(Kaija Saariaho's) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to the performers. (There) were squirt and nozzle bottles, as well as baskets with blood packs, which would later burst onstage, each basket labeled with the name of a performer." - San Francisco Classical Voice
"Viewers are getting tired. Choosing from thousands of options on a dozen streaming services, it turns out, is 'overwhelming.' .. Now Disney … has decided there’s something missing from the TV experience: channels. Sorry, 'Streams,' or a collection of 'collection of lean-back viewing experiences'." - New York Magazine (MSN)
President Macron's program giving money to young people to spend on cultural products now costs €260 million a year. After a report showed that 71% of the recipients spent their money only on books, half of them manga or comics, some lawmakers began calling for ending the program. - The Art Newspaper
Jami Floyd had filed a lawsuit in February 2023 alleging racial discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment (though that part of the case was thrown out). Floyd resigned in April 2022 amidst allegations of plagiarism. - Inside Radio
The three-time Oscar winner is co-starring in his son Ronan's debut feature film, Anemone, whose screenplay the two wrote together. Ronan is also a painter; his first international exhibition opens this week in Hong Kong before traveling to Los Angeles and New York. - The Guardian
"The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature — will be announced during an awards ceremony on November 20." - Publishers Weekly
"A running back turned actor who appeared in scores of TV shows — including groundbreaking 1970s programs such as the sitcom Good Times and the epic miniseries Roots — (he) risked his career to protest demeaning portrayals of Black characters." - The Washington Post (MSN)
The success of “Inside Out 2” on streaming has been unsurprising given how well it performed at the box office earlier this year, surpassing “Frozen 2” as the highest-grossing animated film of all time with $1.7 billion on a budget of $200 million. - Variety
"Duvall’s participation was a surprise to everyone. As well as being officially retired since 2002, she was using a wheelchair, couldn’t travel and struggled to remember lines. But such was her keenness that what was originally a cameo role … was significantly expanded." - The Guardian
I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists have been contemplating this exact transition for centuries. - The Atlantic
Preliminary outcomes show that when artists receive guaranteed income, they generally concentrate on addressing outstanding debt, bills, and increasing their personal savings. They also have more freedom to work on their practice and more time for caregiving responsibilities. - Hyperallergic
"Her astonishing range, as borne out by a stage and screen career that traversed generations, genres and culture levels, had one common denominator: a reverence for the written word. Her gifts — and they were rightly legendary — turned dialogue on the page into verbal music." - Los Angeles Times
"If a change of style is a change of subject, as Wallace Stevens averred, then a change of syntax is a change of meaning. Word order is, if not all, then nine tenths. I exaggerate, but I do so advisedly, as a corrective to the overemphasis on word choice." - The Hedgehog Review
