A Gay “Fantasticks”? Yes, And Adapted By The Original Writer
When Flint Repertory Theatre artistic director Michael Lluberes contacted Tom Jones, the musical's playwright/lyricist, requesting approval to do the show with two young men...
Composer Timo Andres Salutes His Teacher, The Late Ingram Marshall
"With an unlikely fusion of loose, stream-of-consciousness forms and old-school contrapuntal technique, he constructed monoliths of sound, then obscured them. ... I felt I'd...
The Sydney Morning Herald Apologizes And (Kinda Sorta) Admits That It Tried To Out...
After a wave of outrage over the original story erupted not only on social media but among the newspaper's staff, the column in question...
In The Wake Of Mass Shootings, Showrunners Pledge To Depict Guns Differently
"A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to...
Gannett Will Eliminate Daily Editorial Pages At All Of Its Regional Newspapers
"Beginning in the spring and accelerating this month, the 250-title chain is cutting back opinion pages to a few days a week while refocusing...
Lightyear Is The Latest Movie Banned In Saudi Arabia And Other Countries
The censorious countries can't stand that Lightyear contains a nanosecond of a same-sex kiss, of course. - The Hollywood Reporter
Activists Have Had It With The Buyers Of Looted Antiquities
The problems of informal payments and freeports mean that "Western collectors are buying without fear of much reprisal, despite the already present provisions in international law...
A Dancer Who Fled Moscow Tried To Counter Russian Propaganda
Half of Laura Fernandez's family is Ukrainian, so when the then-Stanislavsky Theatre first soloist heard her Russian peers describe "the destruction of the Ukrainian city...
A British Documentarian Says Social Media Gives Traditionally Marginalized People A Voice
Asif Kapadia also says that he wishes he'd discussed mental health more while making the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy. - The Observer (UK)
Is Life Random Or Not?
Some physicists bat it around, with the help of art: "We meet up, sometimes over a drink, to exchange ideas and share our latest...
Why Is The Art World In Love With Basketball Right Now?
Fans of the sport and the arts might ask, "Why not?" but also, you know, why? "'It’s like the best sport ever,' said Jonas...
Almost Half Of US Museums Focus On A Small Percentage Of Contemporary Artists
And, real shocker, those numbers don't favor women - except, unexpectedly, in Miami. - Hyperallergic
The Drama At The Met This Opera Season
"Amid a labor battle, a pandemic that surged again and again, and a war, it was as if the real drama was in simply...
Pablo Picasso Created How-To-Draw Books For His Daughter
The artist "created them for Maya Ruiz-Picasso when she was aged between five and seven. On some pages, the little girl made impressive attempts...
Stranger Things Fans, Here’s How To Expand Your Kate Bush Fandom
"Legions of Stranger Things viewers have been recently indoctrinated into a secular belief system that has already transformed millions of lives. The text that...
The Colosseum’s Been Around So Long That It Has Been A Holy Site For...
Sure, gladiators, but: "The recent restoration of a 17th-century wall painting of ancient Jerusalem on one of the Colosseum’s main interior arches is shedding...
The Sydney Morning Herald Says It Didn’t Threaten To Out Actor Rebel Wilson
Amid an absolute avalanche of online criticism, the SMH has activists shaking their heads. "The 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in...
The Shocking Truth Behind Most Contemporary Architecture
Theaster Gates' design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 reveals that there's slavery behind many contemporary building materials, and buildings: "To the greatest extent possible,...
Angela Lansbury Wins A Lifetime Tony, And All Of The Other Tonys Results As...
As Lansbury wins and Chita Rivera is in the audience, we see how "the theater, for all its physical hardships, can provide actors with...
As Climate Change Destroys Paleolithic Cave Art, France Opens A Museum Of Reproductions
The Cosquer cave is "an underground grotto off the coast of Marseille that was once home to more than 500 works of prehistoric art."...
The Irish Writer And Artist Who Created Countless East German Books
Elizabeth Shaw had quite a life: "From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast's York Street, via the London Blitz to four...
This Women’s Social Club Changed Literature And Art, But Its Members Kept It Quiet
"Guest speakers, frequently invited, included Margaret Sanger, the poet Amy Lowell, Emma Goldman speaking on 'Anarchy,' and Edith Ellis, a lesbian writer in an...
A 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman Is Reunited With A Painting Looted By The Nazis
Her father, a doctor who resisted Nazi orders, "had stored the painting in the Amsterdam Bank in Arnhem, thinking it would be safe there....
Looks Like Dance Classes Improve Your Memory
That's a summary, but: "Latinos age 55 and over who participated in a culturally relevant Latin dance program for eight months significantly improved their...
Why So Many Art Critics Find Women’s Bodies Monstrous
In the 1970s, "there was a backlash against reclaiming of the naked body, from feminist polemicists campaigning against pornography, to feminist artists and...
