Theatre On The English Coast Is Thriving Again As Demographics Change
“This part of the world has seen such a fundamental demographic shift. There has been a change in who lives here, who owns property...
Ojai: How To Create A Playwrights’ Festival That Matters
“Every Ojai play has a single plot. And that plot is: ‘Here, this thing that no one else has noticed—we have seen it as...
Actors’ Equity Joins The Fight To Unionize Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club
Performers who work or worked at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have been picketing for months, arguing that working conditions...
How To Kill The Internet In Australia: Websites Liable For Content On Pages They...
A lawsuit named Defteros v. Google argued that a website could defame someone without writing anything about them — or even knowing who they are. It was enough...
The Guardian’s Dance Critic Rates Heads Of State On How They Boogie
If people are ragging on poor Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister who was videotaped while out partying, then Lyndsey Winship will wield her...
Philadelphia Loves Its Murals. But The City Has Targeted Them For Years
For young graffiti artists, their highly stylistic and calligraphic “wickets” were an alternative to gang life in communities abandoned by slumlords and the city....
Covering Kyiv’s Anti-Tank “Hedgehogs” With Traditional Ukrainian Art
Artist Varvara Logvyn has been painting the steel obstacles, which look like giant jacks from a children's game, in the traditional, brightly colored Petrykivka...
In Seattle: How Do You Rebuild A Creative Culture?
Arguably, our culture of leadership is in disrepair. Our ability to recognize and celebrate excellence is in doubt. Our effectiveness at building consensus is...
Norah Vincent, Who Wrote A Bestseller About Living And Passing As A Man, Is...
"Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. ... She was a contrarian, and proud of it. ... She tilted...
Michael Heiser’s Stunning Masterpiece (50 Years In The Making) Ready To Open In The...
Half a century after Heizer stuck his first shovel in the ground, “City” is finally opening to visitors, which may be the most unbelievable...
Bullfighting Is Fading Away In Spain. So How Can They Repurpose All The Bullrings?
Most of them are in city and town centers, and many are architecturally significant and can't or shouldn't be demolished. Yet they're usually too...
Why Did Netflix Build A Gorgeous Replica Of The Sistine Chapel And Then Destroy...
The streamer spent $5 million to build it for The Two Popes, and it seems nobody understands why it wasn't repurposed. (Perhaps because the...
Why Did The Philadelphia Orchestra Pull Beethoven’s 9th From Its Edinburgh Concert? The Choir...
The concert is the first on a 15-day tour, and the players won't risk COVID transmission, so they asked the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to...
Return The Rosetta Stone To Egypt, Demands The Country’s Most Famous Archaeologist
Says Dr. Zahi Hawass of the 2,200-year-old stele, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, "The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian...
Francesca Zambello Wraps Up 12 Years At Glimmerglass Opera
She feels she has achieved her goals at the upstate New York summer festival: "Creating a 'festival' environment and focusing on our brand of...
Zoom Kept Us Safe, But Kept Us Apart From Music
Irish musician Martin Hayes: "We need to eat, to sleep, to have shelter, to keep our bodies alive, ... our souls need music,...
A New Law Requires Museums In New York To Prominently Identify Nazi-Looted Art
The state senator who introduced the bill said, "Today, artwork previously stolen by Nazis can be found hanging in museums around New York with no recognition...
The Endless Possibilities Of Site-Specific Dance
Every dance is site-specific in some sense, but, in a warming world changed by war, political upheaval and a pandemic, some choreographers forgo traditional...
Another Attempt At MoviePass
It’s been a bumpy road, one with high highs and low lows, for MoviePass. The company shot to notoriety in 2017 by offering customers...
Why Are You Reading This?
The white liberal reading style “has dictated that we go to writers of color for the gooey heart-porn of the ethnographic: to learn about...
What I Learned From A Week Hanging Out With Mensa Members
About 1,100 Mensans journeyed to the Reno area for this year’s convention. They came because they think they are smart, they care deeply about...
Why It’s So Hard To Define Who Is A Millennial
A Pew Research Center poll from 2015 found that, regardless of the parameters, only 40 percent of millennials say they identify with their generation’s label (compared...
Henry Mancini’s Genius
What makes him such an exemplary film composer is the adroitness with which he used style as a catalyst, conspiring with directors to illuminate...
Texas’ New Book Banning Rules In Action: Bible Gets Pulled From Shelves
Forty-two books in total—including the Bible, a graphic novel adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe—were...
Why Are Paris Comedy Clubs Packed?
As a theater critic in France, I’m used to sitting in auditoriums full of all-white, older spectators. In the comedy world, the customers mirrored...
