The Tutu, In Decline
What's the issue with the classic ballet costume? Well, they're just a costume, says one former prima ballerina - and a restrictive one, at...
Sydney Poitier Gave A Lot More To Film And Theatre Than He Ever Got...
James Baldwin got it. "Baldwin acknowledged the restrictions placed on Poitier and other Black actors at the time, but he also recognized Black agency...
The List Of Golden Globes Winners
Just in case you care, after all of the info of last year that tanked "one of the glitziest awards shows in Hollywood," the...
Broadway Producers And Unions Are Not On The Same Page About Omicron Cancellations
We're not all in this together, clearly. The Broadway League "proposed to the unions representing Broadway workers that those workers take a 50 percent...
Oscar Winning Actor Mark Rylance Very Much Prefers Theatre To Film
Hey, there's money, and then there's art. Rylance: "Theatre is so flexible and it’s so different from being an actor in a film. It’s...
Thanks, Pandemic, For Probably Another Depressing Year At The Box Office
Even before omicron hit, "the red flags were flying low back in 2021. The monstrous success of Spider-Man helped paper over the cracks of...
Starring In ‘Wit’ While Dealing With Terminal Cancer
Erin Cronican says, "It’s a very complicated acting challenge. In rehearsals when I open up, I just start crying. We don’t want to create...
Where To Stream Sidney Poitier’s Movies
Probably you watched many of them already (you did, didn't you?), but if you want to see, for instance, In the Heat of the...
Writing Without A Plot, This Author Wrote One Of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books
Raven Leilani, author of Luster: "I knew I was going to write about Edie’s experience in the middle of this open relationship, but the book...
Triple Oscar Winner Marilyn Bergman Was The First Woman To Chair ASCAP
She and husband Alan wrote the words for popular films' songs, including The Way We Were. The New York Times obit adds that "For...
The Culture Wars May Never End
And that's partly because they're (depressingly, agonizingly) good organizing tools for certain segments of the political divide. - The Atlantic
Comedian Bob Saget Of Full House, America’s Funniest Home Videos, And The Aristocrats, Has...
The comedian's deeply raunchy standup was a far cry from his job as "America's dad" on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos. He...
City Ballet’s Season Remains Just Out Of Reach
Thanks a lot, omicron. Not only is the season delayed, but "the canceled performances will not be made up; the season will still end...
The Department Of Justice Is Stopping Sellers On Amazon From Price-Fixing
But it's price-fixing of ... DVDs? Yes. There's millions in BluRay and DVD sales, apparently. "The conspirators communicated with each other to eliminate competition...
Max Julien Became A Cult Star After The 1973 Film The Mack
Julien starred as an ex-convict turned pimp, but he also wrote and co-starred in a feminist western. He didn't like the name "blaxploitation" and...
Do Today’s Golden Globes Matter?
We can't watch them - for very good reason, as the organization that put them on is ... problematic, to say the least -...
You Don’t Need To Be Rich To Assemble A Collection Of Art
Search out painters, sculptors, and other artists you like, and buy what you can. For fun. For your own space. For falling in love...
When A Critic Can’t Resist The Pull Of One Favorite Play
This New York Times critic didn't set out to see Caroline, or Change seven times. It just kind of happened. - The New York...
The Rise And Fall Of A Worldwide Dance Phenomenon
The year is 1995. And, well. "Every part of that song is a hook. That song broke every conceivable barrier in pop music. You...
Tilda Swinton Says She Never Wanted To Be An Actor
The star of many films says that she's ashamed she didn't go into poetry, and that she's thinking about retraining to be a caretaker...
One Potential Future For Giving Art Back
That is, the future of restitution. "Each object is a symbol of countless others lost to systemic cultural devastation." - Hyperallergic
You Can’t Change Your Self
So don't try. Instead, "figuring out how to do something a little less or a little more is likely to yield the best results...
Portland Loses One Of Its Brightest And Best Behind-The-Scenes Cultural Workers
Una Loughran had a strong guiding hand for decades with Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Portland, its successor Portland Center Stage, and BodyVox Dance. One artistic director...
Sidney Poitier Changed Hollywood, But Also Broadway
"When he returned to Broadway in 1959 for the premiere of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, he was already famous" - and the...
What It’s Like To Be A Chicago Software Engineer Dropped Into An Emergency Role...
File this under Covid stories: A woman who performed with Wicked's national tour and Broadway ensemble as Elphaba's understudy but left theatre in 2015...
