Life As A Book Publisher In Wartime Ukraine
The publishing house Vivat's 117 employees are scattered across the world because "the city of Kharkiv, where Vivat is based, has been under fire...
An Exodus From The Bolshoi Benefits Brazil
Star David Motta, 25, "had called Russia home for 13 years. The Bolshoi Academy had taken him in as a boy and turned him...
TV Networks Struggle To Come Up With A Rival For Nielsen
"As media habits change, the entire system is likely to be overhauled, and the networks are relying more heavily on Nielsen rivals, trying to...
Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses Still Features A Pool Onstage As The Main Character
At Pasadena's A Noise Within theatre, it took the production team "five months to design and construct the makeshift pool for the production’s run."...
Playwright Sanaz Toossi Seizes Her Moment
Toossi on previews of English at the Atlantic Theater: "The terror of an audience coming was, like, definitely something I wish I had been...
The Conservative Fifth Circuit Lets Texas End Social Media Moderation
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, "Oral arguments were held on Monday this week, and the judges 'seemed to struggle with basic tech concepts.'" The tech companies will...
David E. Kelley Is Back, Everywhere, On TV, But Quietly
If you were watching TV in the late 1990s, the name should strike a very familiar chord. "Kelley, the creator of The Practice, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Boston...
When Eighth Grade Doodles Become A Career Path
Jessie Sima always loved to doodle horses, or one might honor that art with the word sketch, even. In eighth grade, another kid told...
Streaming Is About To Get Ads
To be fair, if you have Roku or Tubi or Freevee, you already know that very well. But now the big players are getting...
What It’s Like To Start Life In Hollywood With No Industry Connections
Haley Lu Richardson was a dancer when she and her mom moved from Phoenix to L.A. Her success has been a slow burn. "I’d...
What The Venice Biennale Means To This Year’s Winner
Sonia Boyce "greets the trophy with a mix of gratitude and circumspection. 'It seems almost ridiculous that it takes into the 21st century for...
Building A New World Of Poetic Voices
"Much like the painstaking process of recording cassettes for one another in the pre-playlist age, editing an anthology is intimate, a gesture towards the...
The Organization That Runs The Golden Globes Is Up For Sale
Its interim CEO wants to bid on it, and there may be one other bidder. "The HFPA’s move comes after more than a year...
Finding Asian American Representation In Opera Beyond Butterfly
Nina Yoshida Nelsen took stock of her career after the Atlanta shootings. "She had performed in Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly more than 150 times, but had...
Ukraine Wins Eurovision
In a real shocker that literally everyone predicted, rap/folk Kalush Orchestra won, with a song (originally written for the frontman's mother) that includes lyrics...
Why An American Media That Can’t Say More Than Shma-Shmortion Helped Predict This Moment
Look at 2007's Knocked Up. It's "a self-consciously edgy movie that declines, again and again, to say the word abortion out loud. It has much to...
Netflix, But Live Streamed
That "opens up the potential to order a whole new raft of unscripted series to use the technology, bringing it in to line with...
Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, A Renowned Carmen, Has Died At 89
Berganza won fame in Rossini and Mozart, and of course in Carmen, but her "vast repertoire as a recitalist included German lieder, French and...
Yes, The Marcos Family Still Has That ‘Lost’ Picasso
And glimpses of it in Imelda Marcos' apartment after Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s (shocking, for those who remember the 1980s) presidential win "has added to...
How’s It Going, Headline Writers?
This is not an easy job in 2022. Let's find out just how not easy. - Slate
Why Canadians Have To Move To The US To Find Success
Canada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. There’s also something very stay-in-your-lane about the presumption that a Canadian artist...
Stratford Festival Unveils New Theatre
In 2018, the facility — a former curling rink-turned-theatre — underwent a $72-million demolition and reconstruction, a project completed in 2020. However, as a result of the...
The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Cultural Phenomenon (And This Year Is Unusually So)
The world’s biggest music event, famed for bringing Europe together, is happening during the biggest threat to unity on the European continent since the...
What Qualifies As Ukrainian Music?
Before Ukraine gained independence from Russia in 1991, it would have been as natural for a young Prokofiev to head off to Moscow as...
Mrs. Doubtfire Calls It Quits On Broadway
The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry’s crowded spring season, will end its run at the Stephen Sondheim...
