It’s Pride Month, But LGBTQIA Actors Want Better Hollywood Rep All Year ‘Round
Carl Clemons-Hopkins says that “accurate representation stems from getting more representation behind the scenes: ‘The more that you can show the variety of the...
People Are So Lonely, And Theatres Are In So Much Financial Trouble
Can funding struggling theatre help solve our disconnect? Sarah Ruhl: "We are facing a public health emergency—and we need funding from the National Institutes...
Big, Golden Art In Las Vegas
Urs Fischer "became a more permanent presence in the desert entertainment mecca when the delay-plagued, 67-story Fontainebleau, a casino and 3,644-room hotel that cost...
Author Lorrie Moore On Her Mentally Ill Characters
“Understanding someone 100% is probably an illusion. And madness can be seen as a stand-in term for the parts you don’t comprehend. I think...
It Turns Out That Microsoft Default Capturing Your Screen Every Few Seconds Is A...
Who could have predicted this was a bad idea? "In the preview versions of Recall, … screenshot data, complete with the user's every bank...
When A Beach Book Author Says Goodbye To The Beach
Elin Hildebrand’s noves, "set among the misbehaving moneyed class on Nantucket Island juggle romance and crime and a sun-kissed beach vibe that her fans...
A Different Dolly Comes To Broadway
For Hello, I’m Dolly (some of us would get tickets simply based on the title), “the star is writing new songs to go along...
Reservation Dogs Doesn’t Have An Emmy Why, Exactly?
There’s a “glaring similarity” among One Day at a Time, The Wire, and Reservation Dogs: “TV shows about Black criminals and cops in Baltimore...
The Queen’s Double Has Died
Jeannette Charles “first acted in small repertory roles in regional theater. But her uncanny resemblance to the queen distracted audiences, who giggled and guffawed...
Dick Van Dyke Wins Another Emmy At 98
Unsurprisingly, “at 98, that makes Van Dyke the oldest actor to receive a Daytime Emmy win.” He said, “I feel like a spy from...
Sacre Bleu! Why Are English-Language Books Filling Europe’s Bookstores?
"As English fluency has increased in Europe, more readers have started buying American and British books in the original language, forgoing the translated versions...
Los Angeles, City Of Opera
The expected grandeur, the time and space business, the big emotions, big ideas and big voices, we’ve got it all. That's to be expected....
AI’s Art Style Problem
This seems like the reality that these A.I. tools will force us to reckon with: They promise to do for style what the internet did for content, dramatically...
Neuroscience Study: Negative Artist Bio Information Influences Perception Of Their Art
Researchers found that after learning negative information about the artists, participants rated the paintings less favorably. Specifically, paintings by artists associated with negative biographical...
Is AI Leading Us To Rethink Art?
So why are artists dabbling with A.I.? And do they risk being extinguished by it? - The New York Times
Florida Grand Opera Appoints A New Director
Maria Todaro, an accomplished singer, stage director, fight choreographer and arts entrepreneur is stepping into her biggest role yet, ushering in an ambitious rebrand...
The Cascade Of Calamities At Georgia Ensemble Theatre
For over 20 years, co-founders Bob and Anita Farley successfully ran the company in an inner suburb of Atlanta, and they made plans to...
San Francisco Opera, On A Financial Cliff, Looks To Asia
As the West’s oldest still-operational opera company faces a steep financial cliff, there’s another aria being sung across the Pacific Ocean—one SF Opera stands...
Scenes From The Fraud Trial Of Ozy Founder Carlos Watson
“Carlos was now in the mode of trying to manage the crisis,” co-founder Samir Rao (who has confessed and is cooperating with prosecutors) testified....
Archaeologists Discover Stunning Blue Room In Pompeii
The stunning blue-ground walls are decorated with female figures representing the four seasons and allegorical representations of agriculture and pastoralism, according to experts. -...
Can Saudi Arabia Really Remake Itself Into A Welcoming, Glamorous Travel Destination?
The Kingdom "is now marketing itself to two sets of travelers with increasingly divergent — and sometimes contradictory — expectations: luxury tourists at ease...
Book Publishing Is A Collaborative Art. Time To Acknowledge Everyone Who Works On It
Unseen and unacknowledged labor is as central to book publishing as Republican politicians being overpaid to write books that no one except their own...
Hot In London: Immersive Theatre With A Meal
Striving for a high-level experience also means embedding accuracy into the menu itself. For The Great Murder Mystery, the team at the Lost Estate...
The Astoundingly Rapid Fall Of Conductor François-Xavier Roth
It took about two days for this lavishly-praised maestro to lose or cancel all his future engagements, and he'll likely be fired from his...
Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000...
