A Ballet Founder, And Longtime Director, Passes The Torch In Oregon
Toni Pimble “is that rare dancemaker whose visual sense and musical sense are equally acute; moreover, her interests are wide-ranging. Over the years she has...
The Takeaways From The Tonys
Audacious newcomers, especially Maybe Happy Ending, had themselves a night. - The New York Times
What Makes A Great Live Event Producer?
Ask Jesse Collins: “‘Credibility with your word’ is what makes a great producer. ‘If something goes wrong, nobody knows me — they’re just going...
Turning Empty Buildings Into Art In Seattle
“What if landlords teamed up with new and emerging artists to showcase their work in these spaces, offered them a chance to practice a...
Choreography Great Jiri Kylian Is Enjoying A Massive, Career-Spanning Celebration In Oslo
Jiří Kylián is "the Czech choreographer-cum-renaissance man, who in one pre-show discussion declares himself ‘the happiest boy in the world’: There has never been...
The Romance Writer Who Owns Three Bakeries
They do say don’t quit your day job, right? Yet: “Cupcakes and rom-coms, it turns out, have a lot in common.” - The New...
Author Geoff Dyer Says Reading Emma Started Him On A Lifelong Habit
Dyer: “The open secret remains as mysteriously elusive as ever. Which is fine because I don’t go to books for comfort; I have a...
Inside The Whisper Campaign To Unseat The Bear
“What happened to take The Bear from Emmy battering ram to awards also-ran in the span of only a few months? According to multiple writers on...
Live Updates From The Tonys
At the preshow, “Buena Vista Social Club, a musical about a Cuban band, picked up awards for choreography, sound design and orchestrations, while Stranger...
What Does A Young Artist Do After Immediate Success?
Step back, incorporate sound, and start making opera, of course. - The Guardian (UK)
So, Turns Out We Might Have Been Completely Wrong
Cool cool: A “new law of nature” upends everything we thought we knew about time, evolution, and (perhaps) life in the rest of the...
The Soul Of A Video Game Turned Smash Hit TV Show Comes From Its...
The Last of Us composer Gustavo Santaolalla: "I think the fact that we kept the sonic fabric — that we didn’t do an orchestral...
How to Talk About a Terminated NEA Project
...it’s not just about the amount of money in the grant—people will care because of the impact on your community!
Prominent Lawyers Join The Fight Against Paramount’s Planned Settlement With The President
“Late Thursday, the two attorneys sent a strongly worded letter to Paramount’s chairworman and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and other board members arguing that...
A Pianist From Hong Kong Wins The Cliburn For The First Time
Aristo Sham won the gold, with U.S. pianist Evren Ozel taking the bronze. - Dallas Morning News
Booker Winner Bernadine Evaristo Wins Another Big Award, Plans To Donate It
“I’m still very alert to the inequality in the world, and also inequality in my industry. I am not there to endorse the status quo....
How To Identify And Handle Green Books, Some Of Which Are Literally Poisonous
We’re talking actual arsenic: "In recent years, many libraries have prevented access to all suspect green books as a precaution." - The Guardian (UK)
The Wild Chinese Sports Movie That Explains How US-Chinese Relations Have Changed
“What began as a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports has turned into a symbol of just how little China and the U.S....
What Can We Expect From Tonight’s Tony Awards?
“Singing robots. Undead frenemies. A dead train robber, and a dying cave explorer. A fumbling group of spies, and a bumbling group of pirates....
The Spanish Artist Creating A Visual Memory Of Fascism’s Horrors
“People were repressed into silence during the dictatorship and they couldn’t talk about the tragedies in their lives for 40 years. And it’s even...
Why Broadway Performers Make A Hot, Buggy Summer Trek West To St. Louis’s Muny
The Muny seats 11,000 people, in a bug-prone, humidity-drenched St. Louis outdoor theatre. It’s getting a Tony tonight. - The New York Times
Need A Guide To Surviving Hard Times?
Try this 40-year-old kids’ movie. Beneath The Goonies’ "awkward stereotypes and slapstick humor from 1985 lies powerful messaging about what it means to belong,...
How, And Why, Emmy Nominees Ply Their Trade
Javier Bardem: "This is a job, and you just do the job as good as you can with your own limitations. You put everything...
Juggling The Tension Between A Writer’s Creative Vision And Historical Trauma
“I understood the didactic logic of forcing the reader to intellectually and emotionally live through those brutal moments, but the personal distance nagged at...
Scorsese Is Finished With Cinemas
And that’s thanks to us, the great unwashed movie audience: He "explained that he found himself too distracted by the chat and mobile-phone disturbance...
