Drama school leaders are at the sharp end: the issues experienced by the wider theatre sector often land first in drama schools, in raw, unfiltered and unrehearsed and powerful form. - The Stage
As the nonprofit world shrivels in importance, mass media consolidates and grows more influential, and its stars grow ever more powerful, as the economic tidal waves accompanying the summer’s two largest concert tours, by Swift and Beyoncé, have demonstrated. - San Francisco Classical Voice
"If I’m making a piece, whether I’m meaning for it to be political or not, I have to be aware that if I have even just a singular Black body in space, it’s considered political, let alone if I have a white dancer (as well)." - W Magazine
The UK now has 1,500 volunteer-run venues, according to Jaq Chell, CEO of the charity Cinema for All, which supports them with everything from licensing and insurance to equipment. Some are just pop-ups in pubs or community halls. - The Guardian
"(Stereophonic) unfolds in a recording studio, where a rock band’s protracted work on an album straddles a year from 1976-77. 'It really is like the process and the play are blurring because these people are in a studio forever (and so have we)." - The New York Times
"Each time an experience is recalled, there are changes in the connection weights of the network, causing memory elements to get more averaged out. It raises questions about the circumstances under which “eyewitness testimony be protected from bias and influence from repeated onslaughts of queries." - Nautilus
As he wrote in "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." - The Nation
Simon Walo estimated that 19 per cent of people in the United States believe their jobs are ‘bullshit’ and, for the most part, working in one of Graeber’s BS occupations significantly increased the probability that a person perceived their job as socially useless, compared with being in another kind of job. - Psyche
"This is the world of internet-famous tough guys and celebrities clinging to relevance, of manufactured beefs and emotional arcs plotted via training videos and podcast appearances. … What’s more entertaining: an eight-round heavyweight qualifier or watching family vlogger Austin McBroom knock out TikTok frat bro Bryce Hall?" - The New York Times Magazine
Does reflecting the communities they serve mean reducing the role of senior white women, who made up a large proportion of the docent council? - Willamette Week
"A common trope in horror is that the character being haunted, possessed, or hunted is going through a personal agony — one that either helps them rise above the evil or destroys them altogether. … Grief cannot — should not — be sugar-coated. So we come to scary movies and books to relate." - Literary Hub
"What would be great is to collect all the myths that exist about me, because maybe they’re more interesting than my life!" Q: "Could it be that you yourself encourage these myths?" A: "Well let’s see …" (in English) - El País (Spain)
"Meet 'Alfaz-e-Mewat,' a community radio station that offers a mix of group therapy, education, women’s empowerment and entertainment. … In this region — which has some of the country’s lowest female literacy rates and where violence against women is the norm — the station is the voice of change." - The New York Times
"The rule would not set a limit on the fees, but rather would require broader disclosures, including the purpose of the fees and whether they are refundable. This action comes as President Biden has made cutting down on the so-called junk fees one of the priorities of his administration." - The Hollywood Reporter
"When the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park opens in Montgomery, Ala., in early 2024, on a bluff flanked by railroad tracks overlooking the Alabama River, visitors will be able to arrive by boat — retracing the footsteps of tens of thousands of Africans." - The New York Times
