Matthew López On The One Play He’s Written That He Was Terrified Of Reviving
One big reason that the Tony-winning playwright of The Inheritance has been reluctant to revisit this script, titled Reverberation, is that it's the last...
Kris Kristofferson, Country Music Philosopher
Kris Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken...
Backstage At San Francisco Opera For “Innocence” And “The Handmaid’s Tale”
"(Kaija Saariaho's) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to...
Video Streaming Platforms Are Looking Back To A Very 20th-Century Structure: TV Channels
"Viewers are getting tired. Choosing from thousands of options on a dozen streaming services, it turns out, is 'overwhelming.' .. Now Disney … has...
Why France’s Culture Pass For Young People Is In Danger
President Macron's program giving money to young people to spend on cultural products now costs €260 million a year. After a report showed that...
New York Public Radio Settles Discrimination Suit Brought By Former Host
Jami Floyd had filed a lawsuit in February 2023 alleging racial discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment (though that part of the case...
Daniel Day-Lewis Ends His Seven-Year Retirement From Acting
The three-time Oscar winner is co-starring in his son Ronan's debut feature film, Anemone, whose screenplay the two wrote together. Ronan is also a...
Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” And Miranda July’s “All Fours” Among Titles Shortlisted For National Book...
"The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories — fiction,...
John Amos, Pathbreaking Black TV Actor Known For “Roots” And “Good Times,” Has Died...
"A running back turned actor who appeared in scores of TV shows — including groundbreaking 1970s programs such as the sitcom Good Times and...
“Inside Out 2” Broke Theatre Box Office Records. Now It’s Breaking Streaming Records
The success of “Inside Out 2” on streaming has been unsurprising given how well it performed at the box office earlier this year, surpassing...
How Shelley Duvall Left A Two-Decade Retirement And Made Her Final Film Appearance
"Duvall’s participation was a surprise to everyone. As well as being officially retired since 2002, she was using a wheelchair, couldn’t travel and struggled...
Cravings, Desires, Drugs And Buddhists
I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol,...
Does Guaranteed Basic Income Improve Artists’ Lives? (A Study)
Preliminary outcomes show that when artists receive guaranteed income, they generally concentrate on addressing outstanding debt, bills, and increasing their personal savings. They also have...
Why We Were Fascinated By Maggie Smith
"Her astonishing range, as borne out by a stage and screen career that traversed generations, genres and culture levels, had one common denominator: a...
Syntax Makes (Almost) All The Difference
"If a change of style is a change of subject, as Wallace Stevens averred, then a change of syntax is a change of meaning....
End Of An Era: UK Car Makers To Stop Putting CD-Players In Cars
The tyranny of choice can make the comparatively limited days of the in-car CD player, or multi-disc changer, if you were fancy, seem highly...
What It Means To Write A Play In The Age Of AI
"In the midst of all this, what does it mean to be a writer trying to write in the way that I want to...
Francis Ford Coppola Self-Financed His $120-Million “Megalopolis.” It Just Bombed Its Opening Weekend
The major studios wouldn’t touch “Megalopolis,” the ambitious passion project from octogenarian Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola. Now it’s clear why. - Los Angeles Times
Endangered Indigenous Languages Are Getting A Boost On Social Media
Never before have Indigenous nations and communities had so many tools for revitalizing their languages. - The Walrus
National Black Theatre Prepares to Move Into Building Worthy Of Its Work
CEO Sadie Lythcott says, "Our artistic ambition was always stifled by the space that we had." Come 2027, NBT will move into a block-long...
Does AI Understand Language Or…
The downside of these machine-learned embeddings is that, unlike in a game of 20 Questions, many of the descriptions encoded in each list of...
Here’s The 2024 Class Of MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellows
Figures from the arts include poet Jericho Brown, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, media artist Tony Cokes, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, writers...
When Disney Tried To Build An American History Theme Park
Disney's America was intended to have nine sections, from a Colonial-era Presidents Square and an Indigenous village to Ellis Island and a 19th-century factory...
Pompidou Revives Plan For Outpost In Jersey City
Under the Pompidou’s new plan, the museum will be sited in a new location and backed by a different financial arrangement. - ARTnews
By Age 25, She Had Choreographed For Commercial Dance, West End Musicals, Pop-Star Tours,...
Emma Portner is now almost 30, and the National Ballet of Canada has brought a major work of hers on tour to London. Yet...
