Flim-Flam In Flux: How Profanity Changed Through The 16th Century
The age of the Tudors in England is when words about sexuality and scatology started to be considered profane rather than simply matter-of-fact. Yet...
Why I Study The Great Emptiness Of Space
Cosmic voids are cosmology at its purest. They are simple. The complications of star formation and black holes don’t impact them because they don’t...
What’s The Difference Between Understudies, Alternates, Standbys, And Swings? A Broadway Explainer
They've all been heroes over the past year, often stepping in at the last minute to keep the show going on after a cast...
What It’s Like Being A Backup Dancer On Tour
Most mornings start with waking up in the tour bus in a new city. - Dance Magazine
One Of New York’s Most Beloved Dance Teachers Finds His Way Back To Class...
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems,...
Eighty Percent Of Younger Viewers Keep Subtitles Turned On. Why?
A study last November found that four out of five viewers aged between 18 and 25 said they use subtitles “all or part of the time”...
“Manuscripts Don’t Burn”: How “The Master And Margarita” Survived Stalin’s Regime And Made It...
Elena Bulgakova preserved her late husband's manuscript for 20 years, retyped it, got it published first in translation in Soviet-occupied Estonia, then, in Russian,...
The Royal Opera House At Versailles: A Brief History
The theater was conceived by Louis XIV but only completed in time for the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's...
San Francisco Arts Commission Executive Used Grant Money To Pay For Her Hawaii Vacation
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for...
George Bartenieff, An Eminence Grise Of Off-Off-Broadway, Is Dead At 89
He could easily have been one of the cohort of mainstream New York stage actors who pay their bills with guest spots in TV...
Reviving Brooklyn’s Golden Age Of Ashkenazi Cantorial Singing
Back in the 1920s, there was a group of cantors who combined traditional liturgical chanting with improvisation and operatic vocal technique, which they never...
Why Was “Batgirl” Canceled? For a Tax Writedown, Say Sources
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to...
Here Are Ten More Movies Hollywood Completed And Then Shelved
In honor of Batgirl, Ernie Smith remembers a group of other films — seven of which are from since the turn of the millennium,...
Met Museum Makes Max Hollein CEO As Well As Director
"The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure. ... The Met's current two-pronged leadership structure, which is unusual for art museums,...
Only Months Before Release, Studio Scraps Batgirl Movie After Spending $90 Million
Following reports that the Burbank studio giant will no longer offer the movie on its streaming platform or in theaters, filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall...
One Of Every Five Nightclubs In London Has Gone Out Of Business
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in...
Canadians Excel At American Reality TV. Why?
Canadians performing well against Americans isn’t a new concept in sports, but the recent onscreen successes raise the obvious question: Are Canadians just better...
What’s Wrong With American Cheerfulness
At its worst, cheer can be breezily dishonest, an on-demand feeling that we can project to get what we want. It can also be...
Stephen King Testifies In Mega-Book-Publisher Merger Trial. Here’s What He Said
During 45 minutes of testimony, King laid out the changes he’s witnessed over a half-century career in collaboration with a number of different publishers....
Academy Of Motion Pictures Elects A New President
Producer Janet Yang brings a deep well of experience within the film industry and in the academy itself. Her producing credits include “The Joy...
Professional Theater Has Been Endangering Its Actors, Literally, For Generations. Now Actors Are Finally...
"In return for the privilege of scraping by in a field they love, they are commonly expected to endanger themselves physically and emotionally." Long...
When Buckminster Fuller Met Steve Jobs
Fuller had devoted his career to predicting the impact of technology, but he saw nothing special in Apple: “I remember him saying that he...
Trying To Figure Out The Sexual-Abuse Scandal At Boston Ballet (Which Doesn’t Involve The...
The accusations are by ex-students of former principal ballerina Dusty Buttons and, especially, her husband. Gretchen Voss spent months investigating the case: "I made...
Dana Gioia: Poetry Is Essential To Religion
At the risk of offending most believers, it is necessary to state a simple but unacknowledged truth: It is impossible to understand the full...
Europe’s Radio Orchestras Mustn’t Be Allowed To Disappear
"Public service radio orchestras have been one of the great civilising forces of the last century. That may be an unsexy proposition but ......
