Did The Harry Potter Movies Show The Way To Keeping Child Actors Safe?
Maybe. "The Harry Potter kids were lucky to be working in the UK industry, which could never compete in scale or ferocity" with Hollywood....
Broadway Shows, With The Advantage Of Time Off And Protests, Have Quietly Made Changes
Many changes came about because actors requested some rethinking of words, lyrics, or choreography. Sally Hemings, for instance, no longer flirt-dances with Jefferson in...
As The Royal Ballet’s Edward Watson Retires, He Has Hope For Boys In Dance
Watson says, "We all grew up with this thing of saying ‘don’t look like a sissy’, ‘don’t dance like a woman, dance like a...
Visual Humor Might Be Helping Ease The Stresses Of Pandemic Life
That's right, to deal with the constant dread and worry about what's next with a constantly evolving virus, we all need ... memes. -...
Did Judy Chicago Troll A Crowd At The De Young Museum?
No, but yikes. "When that initial plume dispersed a bit the first things I could see were dozens of people running in the opposite...
You Thought COVID Was Bad For Music Festivals
But the long-term impact of climate change - and festivals' impact on the climate - is yet to come. For large festivals, "They’re basically...
A Different Kind Of Gold Torso
These aren't from ancient Greece or Rome. Instead, they're modern casts artist Ellen Downes makes to help women heal from trauma. - BBC
Peter Scolari, Who Found Fame With Tom Hanks On Bosom Buddies, Has Died At...
Scolari also played Bob Newhart's producer on Newhart and Lena Dunham's character's father on Girls. - The New York Times
Moments Before Fatal Shooting, Baldwin Was Told Gun Was Safe
An assistant director, Dave Halls, handed actor Alec Baldwin a prop gun during rehearsal. "'Cold gun,' Halls yelled. But it was not." - The...
The Week That Shook The Center Theatre Group
The reaction to Center Theatre Group's 2021-2022 lineup came quickly. "CTG had received a torrent of calls, emails, and criticism on social media ......
Arts Organizations Coping With A Changed Labor Market
As some arts organizations retool and expand their hiring, they’re finding that the upheavals of 2020 — the dislocation of the pandemic and a...
Some Independent Movie Theatres Have Been Doing Great During COVID
For a certain sector of the exhibition business, things look, if not blazingly bright, at least cautiously bullish. While not immune to the forces...
Canadian Theatre Icon Martha Henry, 83
Only 12 days before her death, Henry gave her last performance as the character “A” — an older, dying woman — in Stratford’s production...
We’re Not Supposed To Call It The Brexit Festival, But Here You Have It…
Unboxed: Creativity in the UK – formerly known as Festival 2022 and derided by some as a “festival of Brexit” – draws on arts,...
The Insidious Harm Of “Inspiration Porn”
I've "come to see Keller’s mainstream image and story as a textbook example of “inspiration porn,” where disabled people’s lives are flattened into saccharine...
The Social Media Problem: We’re Talking Too Much
A lot is wrong with the internet, but much of it boils down to this one problem: We are all constantly talking to one...
Major Social Media Influencer. Black And Queer Activist. Ballet Star. Meet Harper Watters
"The Houston social-media influencer is a gay Black man with a gift for the absurd and a passion for platform heels. He's also a...
Can You Really Be A Better Person Taking Masterclasses Online?
Mark Williamson, the company’s chief operating officer, told me, “I think it’s legitimately possible for us to create an algorithm that builds a personalized...
Fully Trained Dancers Are Finding A New Home In Burlesque
"For the growing number of women who have found their way to nightlife performance from a concert-dance background, burlesque can feel pretty close to...
Giant Puppet Finishes Four-Month Refugee Walk From Syria To UK
Little Amal, whose name means hope in Arabic, was created by Handspring, the company that made the equine puppets in War Horse. She stands 3.5...
Is Eight Shows A Week Too Much To Ask Of Actors?
The schedule is famously wearing, especially for leads in demanding roles. (Come the holidays, they sometimes do ten shows a week.) As Broadway returns...
The Unprecedented Logistics Behind Getting Broadway Up And Working Again
Broadway shows stopped dead in their tracks in March 2020. The production teams simply had to hurriedly depart their stages with scenery still in...
This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts "financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000...
Seriously? Send Your Art To Space?
Uplift promotes ‘Constellation Vault’: ‘a platform for commercial promotion and exhibition in low Earth orbit’. ‘The Constellation Vault will offer patrons the exclusive opportunity...
The “Immersive Transcript”, A New Way To Make Podcasts Accessible To Deaf Audiences
"Transcripts are hardly uncommon in podcasting but they're often an afterthought, littered with omissions and inaccuracies thanks to automated transcription. … For their new...
