A “Suicide Mission”: Aaron Sorkin On Adapting “To Kill A Mockingbird” For The Stage
"I absolutely knew there was no way I would get out alive. I was going to ruin everyone's childhood. ... Everything that was presented...
Composer Judith Weir Is The First Woman To Be Master Of The Queen’s, Er,...
"She has only 20 predecessors, most of whom held their positions for life. ... Over the centuries, the function of the master as primarily...
Praemium Imperiale 2022 Winners: Ai Weiwei, Wim Wenders, Krystian Zimerman, Giulio Paolini, And SANAA
The 15 million yen (currently $104,000) prizes have been awarded to artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (sculpture), filmmaker Wim Wenders (theatre/cinema), pianist Krystian Zimerman...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On A One-Day “Warning Strike”
Management says that the museum will remain open to the public despite the walkout and picket line, which the union is staging to press...
Dance Theater Of Harlem’s Resident Choreographer Will Be Its Next Artistic Director
Robert Garland, a former DTH dancer mentored by founder Arthur Mitchell, was the company's first resident choreographer. He succeeds Virginia Johnson, a founding member...
Pop Music’s Tension Between New And Familiar
The longevity of old songs is an even greater mystery when what every era’s fans want is the fresh, the startling, the new. - The...
It’s Difficult To Overstate The Importance Of Martha Graham To American Dance
Modern dance in the United States did not emerge from a legible high-art context—a handful of individuals, mostly women, had to make their own,...
Why It’s So Difficult To Write About Images
The English vocabulary is especially limited, with only 170,000 or so words in an English dictionary. What does this mean to the art writer...
Australian Writers Decry Their Place In The Country’s Cultural Support Structures
“Funding and the politics of funding within the Australia Council is dominated by performing arts, the lion’s share of funds goes to performing arts...
How An Orchestra’s Home Imprints An Orchestra’s Sound
It seems logical that an orchestra’s basic tools of sound production – tone colour, dynamics, rhythmic precision and articulation – are strongly influenced by...
David Frum: Is Returning African Art The Right Thing To Do?
Each museum that pledges to surrender some or all of its African collection intensifies the pressure on the holdout institutions to follow. But each...
“Better Call Saul” As The Portrait Of An Artist
"Rather than a crime drama in the vein of the Scamming Show canon, Better Call Saul is perhaps best understood as an unlikely Künstlerroman...
How The Broadway Revival Of “Funny Girl” Became Real-Life Drama
This revival’s story is the real-life version of Smash, NBC’s own campy drama about casting the perfect lead; from previews to present day, Funny Girl has been...
Salman Rushdie And The Marketization Of Hurt Sentiments
"If it shocks us that the novelist was attacked after so long, it should also shock us that commentary looks much as it did...
Artificial Intelligence Is Sneaking Into Everything Around Us – Subtle, Unobtrusive…
Unlike search or social media, whose arrivals the general public encountered and discussed and had opinions about, artificial intelligence remains esoteric—every bit as important...
Where Jodie Gates Plans To Take Cincinnati Ballet
"What I'm really hoping for is we develop our own style. A hyper-musical, full-port-de-bras style layered with joy, with beautifully coordinated dancers ... who...
New York Theatre Right Now? The Avant-Cozy
Anything, including revolution, can be repurposed as comfort right now. Nostalgia isn’t just for conservatives—we are in the time of the derriere-garde, experimental hygge,...
The Adventurous History of The “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books
In a longread laid out like a choose-your-own-adventure tale, Leslie Jamison looks at why kids adore the books (agency!), their own origin story, how...
Google AI Researcher Concludes: Artificial Intelligence Could Destroy Humanity
The paper, published last month in the peer-reviewed AI Magazine, is a fascinating one that tries to think through how artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk...
When They’re Putting On A New Opera, Who’s The Person Everybody’s Grateful For? The...
"The prompter is invisible to the audience, and he may be only one person among the roughly 250-strong cast and crew, but he plays...
Translating “Hamilton” Into German Is Even More Challenging Than You Think
"Preserving the rhythm, the sound, and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound...
How Does “Hamilton” Go In German? Here Are Half A Dozen Examples
For instance, Alexander Hamilton in "The World Was Wide Enough" —
English: "America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me."
German: "America, durch deine Brust...
Pulled Between Hollywood And The Stage: The Case Of Matt Shakman And The Geffen...
"If anyone could figure out how to synergize the creativity of a city dominated by film and television yet overflowing with theatrical ingenuity, ......
Meet The Strippers Working To Make Their L.A. Dive Bar An Actors’ Equity Venue
As "Reagan", one of the group's leaders, tells a carful of potential patrons, "We do want to dance. We love it in there. We're...
The New Harriet Tubman Statue In Philadelphia Might Not Be Of Harriet Tubman
When the city commissioned a permanent version of Wesley Wofford's traveling Tubman statue, objectors demanded the commission go to a Philadelphia artist of color...
