Little Joy (Or Buzz) In Hollywood As Awards Season Starts
With movies facing what feels to many like an existential crisis and the box office for adult-oriented films all but decimated, few in the business...
The Lady Who Wrote “Goodnight, Moon” Was No Gentle Madonna
Margaret Wise Brown "burned through her money as quickly as she earned it, travelling to Europe on ocean liners and spending entire advances on...
New Data: Streaming Subscribers Who Sign Up For Specific Big Shows Leave Soon After
All streaming services see a portion of U.S. customers unsubscribe every month and have been signing up more users than they lose over time....
Greece Is Restoring Its Ancient Amphitheatres And Returning Them To Use
From Epiros in the north down to Sparta and beyond, the outdoor venues where classical drama was born are being rediscovered: 25 are hosting...
How Method Acting Made Me Mad
The idea that an actor must authentically experience and feel the lived reality of the character he is playing—and therefore be infinitely present and...
All Over France, An Exhibition Shows The Sensuous Side Of Muslim Culture
"It is called 'The Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present', and each of its 18 participating venues contains 10 works intended to...
Public Libraries Are Offering Training In Starting And Running A Small Business
"As the pandemic has spurred an entrepreneurship boom, many public libraries have stepped in to meet a growing need among new business owners, particularly...
Broadway’s Reopening Last Fall Did Not Go As Expected, Even Before December’s Omicron Spike
"During the months when the pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and...
Federico Bonelli, Star Of London’s Royal Ballet, Named Artistic Director Of England’s Ballet North
Bonelli succeeds David Nixon, who ran the company — based in Leeds but touring more than any other ballet troupe in the UK —...
Chicago Sun-Times Is Now Officially A Subsidiary Of Chicago Public Radio
The merger, announced last fall and officially completed on Jan. 31, is funded by $61 million in donations from foundations and individuals. The money...
New York Times Drops A Million Or Two To Buy Wordle
The newspaper said that it paid an amount "in the low seven figures" for the game, which was released in October and gained hundreds...
Uffizi Gallery, Mecca Of Renaissance Art, Moves Slowly Into Contemporary Work
It's not easy to do this, since people come from all over the world to see the classics, but the Florence museum's dynamic director,...
Why Are Demands For Book Bans Increasing?
Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. The American Library Association...
What Does A City Benefit When Hollywood Comes To Town?
"It's fine to boast about having Amazon and Netflix in our back yard but if they got a better tax credit in France or...
Justin Bieber Becomes First Artist To Get Ten YouTube Videos With A Billion Views...
With this legacy defining milestone, Bieber’s rise as one of the world’s top artists is undeniable. How did he get there? - Toronto Star
Dissent: Against Joan Didion
Nothing ever seemed to excite her or faze her or disappoint her, largely because she set her sights so low to begin with. - The...
Online Dating Apps: Your Taste In Music Is A Disqualifier
On dating apps, music taste has become one of the primary ways of signalling one’s suitability as a mate – and how, by reducing...
Does Anyone Understand Method Acting?
Strasberg began to think about what made some performances succeed and some fail, and concluded that it must have to do with whether or...
Are NFTs Really The Future Of Art?
The news that you could now, at least in theory, monetise digital art has spawned a speculative boom. - Irish Times
Thinking On Cultural Appropriation
Why is it a problem for a so-called dominant culture to utilize the forms and features of another? The short answer is that it...
What Role Does Shakespeare Have In American Theatre Now?
How much Shakespeare do audiences really want these days? What adjustments are required in the performance of his canon to accommodate those who do...
First: London’s Royal Opera House Hires Intimacy Coordinator
“In opera, there’s so much attention given to the craftsmanship of the music, the set design, the direction of the singing and choreography, in...
Lion Dancers In Houston Have 90 Performances During The Days Around Lunar New Year
Here's how they practice, and how they deal with being away from their families during one of the biggest holidays of the year. -...
The Horrors Of This Year’s Sundance Were All Virtual
"Horror cinema has long been in the business of mining terror from the everyday, of linking surface scares to primal subtexts ... there’s...
The Man Who Changed The Way We See Spanish Art
Under Franco, the study of Spanish art languished - but Jonathan Brown, art historian, curator, professor, and mentor, brought luminous painters like Velázquez to...
