Discount Ticket-seller TKTS Wants To Boost Theatre Attendance In The City Of Brotherly Love
This will be TKTS’ first U.S. spot outside of New York. “Regional theaters are struggling and ticket costs are a persistent cause of consumer...
How Much Input Did Barbara Hepworth Have In The Casting Processes For Her Sculptures?
In newly revealed letters, "the instructions make it clear how deeply involved Hepworth was in the casting procedure, caring not just about the final...
Analyzing The ‘Legendary’ Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack
Video games do better with a serious commitment to music: "The self-taught British composer David Wise, with valuable contributions from Robin Beanland and Eveline...
Why Are Men Claiming Online To Make Fortunes Self-Publishing Classic Literature?
“The theory is simple. Countless classic works of literature have fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, granting normal people the right...
Disney Wants To Knock Netflix Off Its Stand-Up Comedy Perch
But it’s not about volume: "Hulu will roll out one special every month. The aim is to turn each one into an event, leaning...
Hate To Break It To You, But The Wicked Movie Outshines The Stage Musical
There’s just more time, with the movie in two parts. That means it “zeroes in on the rivals-turned-besties dynamic with a touching naturalism that...
Comparing Gladiator II To What Happened In Reality
There actually were quite a few animals involved in the Colosseum, not to mention the naval battles - but probably no sharks. - Los...
Will The New Info About Cormac McCarthy Affect The Writer’s Reputation?
“Everybody knew about Augusta, but they all knew her as a secret. … Because they met when she was so young, she was an...
We’ve Entered The Era Of Grand Theft Hamlet
That’s a documentary, actually, “examining a lockdown staging of the play within the online digital realm of Grand Theft Auto, emerging as a strangely moving...
The Banana Piece Is A Disgusting Display Of Cynicism And Wealth Management
“I don’t think Cattelan’s ‘prank’ was ever in good faith. The Italian artist swims in the same swamp as those he pretends to parody....
The UK’s Morris Dancing Is Traditional, Except Where It Absolutely Isn’t
“When you think of the English tradition of Morris dancing, you might not picture a group of young, gender non-conforming, drag kings who dress...
How Marla Mindelle Became The Queen of Queer Off-Broadway
Says the creator and star of hit parodies Titanique and The Big Gay Jamboree, "I liken myself to the homeless man’s Lin-Manuel Miranda. I’m...
Remembering Painter Frank Auerbach Who Has Died At 93
In almost any Auerbach oil painting, early or late, rawness is thick on the ground. So dense, so clotted, and so busily heaped is...
Baltimore Symphony Oboist Has Become A Clearing House For Classical Music’s #MeToo Reckoning
“We need to show our industry and music-loving public that there are consequences for inappropriate behaviour,” Katherine Needleman says. - Baltimore Banner
Why Did The Onion Buy Infowars? Yeah, It Was A Joke — At First
Onion CEO Ben Collins's first thought was, "That’d be one of the funniest jokes of all time if we pulled this off." Once it...
In Our Culture Success Is Often Measured By Its Ability Scale. What If This...
There is a flaw at the heart of the concept of scaling, though it can be hard to articulate in the face of “bigger...
Broadway Is Having A Country Music Moment
For the most part, show tunes on Broadway still sound more influenced by Andrew Lloyd Webber than by, say, Morgan Wallen. But country music...
A New Prize For Music Criticism Named After William Littler
The longtime Toronto Star classical music critic reflects: Littler remembers the words of a former editor who told him, your job is to take...
Why Black Americans Should Give Up Trying To Claim Ancient Egypt As Their Heritage
"Black America tracing itself to Egypt makes as much historical sense as would Czechs deciding to … favor tartans as an expression of being...
Prominent Author Accused Of Stealing Algerian Woman’s Story
This year’s winner of France’s biggest book prize is being sued in Algeria over claims he stole the story from a patient of his...
European Movies Are Getting Critical Raves. Box Office Success Is Another Story
On Thursday, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO), a research body, published its annual report on the theatrical performance of European movies worldwide. It’s not...
Talk Of Decolonizing Is Everywhere. But What It Means Is Uncertain
In contrast to the seeming clarity of colonialism (however much it elides that process’s own complications), current discussions of decolonisation can seem amorphous and...
What Happens To CNBC And MSNBC Once They Have No Corporate Connection To NBC...
Parent company Comcast is spinning off its cable channels but keeping its broadcast networks, including NBC. Both CNBC and MSNBC share, along with the...
The UK Is Getting Serious About Cracking Down On Social Networks
Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, is trying to convince social media platforms to do more to prevent online harms,...
Same Old Same Old: Our Culture Industry Relentlessly Mines Nostalgia
They do not feel like fun experiments or celebrations of beloved albums. They feel like the onward acceleration of a culture industry that is...
