The hottest ticket on the Great White Way at the moment, judging from what people are willing to pay for it, is Sondheim's notoriously troubled musical-that-goes-backwards, Merrily We Roll Along. The hottest ticket Off-Broadway, and already the longest running show ever to play at Manhattan's new venue The Shed, is Here We Are, the musical Sondheim was still working...
In 2016, David Roussève’s “Enough?” — with an accelerating choreographic phrase danced to a soundtrack of Aretha Franklin — asked whether dance can be a sufficient medium for considering the brutality often inflicted on Black people. Now, eight years later, that question is being answered in the affirmative on major dance stages around the United States. - Hyperallergic
Both "wokeism" and "wokery" refer to culture war issues, though "wokery" has as a second definition cooking with a wok. Among other terms newly added are "safe word", "talkboard", "PFAS", "Gradgrindian", "taliswoman", "hypnic jerk", and "-splaining" as a suffix ("straightsplaining", "mumsplaining"). - The Guardian
The announcement, last October, that out-of-province students would see their annual tuition fees double comes on the heels of repeated government efforts to chip away at the English community’s long-standing academic institutions. - The Walrus
From 2022 to 2023, artistic director transitions increased from 53 to 66 across companies, schools, and venues. Male artistic director appointments increased by 46%, female by 10%, while male executive director appointments were up by 157%, female by 83%. - Dance Data Project
If last year’s combined 191-day writers’ and actors’ strikes, with all the vitriolic exchange between creatives and management, has not convinced you that television’s riotous superbloom has officially come to an end, the 75th Emmys might. - Los Angeles Times
"Last Friday, the National Park Service (NPS) announced plans to remove the statue, as well as a model of Penn’s original home, from Welcome Park, ... located a few blocks from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. That decision was met with swift criticism, which eventually reached President Joe Biden." - Smithsonian Magazine
One reason we are such poor lie detectors may be because we tend to believe others are telling the truth more often than we think that others may be lying to us. This is called the “truth bias”: that is, a bias towards believing what others say. - The Conversation
"Film producer David Ellison's Skydance Media is exploring an all-cash deal to acquire National Amusements Inc., the company that controls Paramount Global, (and) merge the two entertainment businesses." The deal would include, among others, Paramount Studios and the TV networks CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and VH1. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
The main version of ChatGPT has, since its launch last year, been able to write a children's story, but GPTs allow parents—or anyone, really—to constrain the topic and start with specific prompts, such as a child's name. This means anyone can generate personalized stories starring their kid and their favorite character. Wired
Though the French remain divided over the actor, long a symbol of France's movie industry (he's been in over 150 films), the mounting charges of sexual assault made against him are having roughly the same effect on the #MeToo movement in France that Harvey Weinstein had in the US. - Variety
Previous recipients of the prize, now in its 50th year, have included Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, André Watts, Midori, Joshua Bell, the Emerson and Kronos string quartets, flutist Claire Chase, and, most recently, clarinetist Anthony McGill. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Harpreet Singh was captured while trying to escape from American Fine Art in Scottsdale. He had taken works worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, including pieces by Picasso and Warhol, which were found scattered on the building's roof. - Artnet
