Broadway Fires Its Harry Potter
The show on Sunday issued a statement saying that James Snyder, who played the title role for about a year before the pandemic and...
Having Trouble Focusing? Here’s Why
Our brains aren’t designed to absorb so much at a time: In one study, 136 students took a test; some had their phones turned...
Lee Godie Was Chicago’s Iconic ‘Bag Lady’ Artist
Godie was a "weathered blond woman wearing a rabbit fur coat and men’s orthopedic slip-ons as she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue." The...
Catch The “Vibe”
Once, vibe, mood, and energy were watchwords of the counterculture. Today, this vocabulary has diffused beyond any niche group. - The Drift
What We Learned About Teaching Music Online
Going online has forced music educators to adapt existing ideas, or adopt existing technology, to discover, invent and share ways to reach students to...
Can American Audiences Still Do Ambiguity?
We want thinking and imagining lives that are active rather than passive, evolving rather than static. A flourishing shared cultural life is one in...
Despite Omicron, LA Art Fairs Push Ahead
Typically this weeklong coagulation of art fairs in mid-February — dubbed Frieze Week — draws art makers, sellers, collectors and spectators from around the globe, which...
The Value Of Stephen Sondheim’s Estate
The “West Side Story” songwriter’s assets totaled approximately $75 million, according to papers accompanying his 2017 will filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s court last month....
San Francisco Arts Organizations Wondering At Delays In City Funding
Over the past few months, arts administrators across the city have become increasingly distressed by the significant delays they’ve experienced while trying to get...
Abigail Disney Is Disgusted By Disney, And Made A Movie To Explain Why
Disney and two of her siblings are executive producers on a new documentary that "positions the entertainment company that bears their name as 'ground...
A Ugandan Novelist Has Been Imprisoned For His Tweets, And May Have Been Tortured
The EU special representative for human rights says, "I’m alarmed by reports of alleged torture and incommunicado detention of author . He remains in...
When The Art Connoisseur Is A Robot
Artificial intelligence (OK, not an actual "robot") is really, really good at identifying brushstrokes. "The researchers hypothesized that brushwork on a painting leaves behind...
We’re All Used To Streaming Theatre Now, But What About Augmented Reality Theatre?
You know, hologram theatre in your kitchen or living room or ... wherever. "Theater makers are naturally fascinated: They’re used to working in 3-D....
Some Musicians Are Going Label-Free, Again
Why? Streaming royalties. - BBC
A Holocaust Museum In Virtual Reality
To be clear, one has to be at the museum to experience survivors' personal stories in VR. But "pretty much across the board, viewing...
I Swear We Are Still A Collective Of Humanity
No matter what our language choices. Consider the word like: "The conversational 'like' strikes many as merely a messy hedge that The Kids use...
When Two Stars Play One Part On The Same Stage
Uma Thurman and Renée Fleming are both Penelope; it's just that one speaks, and one sings. Thurman: "When you put language to music, it...
The Limits Of The Young Adult Label
Selling books is complex, and author Malinda Lo, winner of the National Book Award for young people, says the label is just marketing. "I...
An Actress Takes Control Of The ‘Unsexy’ Side Of Movies
Dakota Johnson is now a producer. She says, "It’s not about control. It’s about contribution. It’s about collaboration. ... It’s about really reaching for...
A Tricky Case For The Lawyer Who Wrote The Book On Restitution For Nazi-Looted...
Stuart Eizenstat, who helped write the Washington Principles, is in an odd position. "The optics of his surfacing for the first time in a...
Dear Audience, The Author Is Not Always The Novel’s Main Character
Or perhaps ever. Rebecca Watson: "I really don’t believe there’s a correlation ... but people try to map the piece onto the novel and...
Broadway Is Back, But What About Audiences?
Recently, Broadway shows haven't needed to cancel because of COVID cases in cast or crew, but there are a lot of empty seats -...
When Your First Novel Becomes A Political Lightning Rod For The Side You Don’t...
Ana Iris Simón has been "stunned not only by the success of her book, but also by how an ultranationalist and conservative audience ......
Super Bowl Half-Time Dancers Aren’t OK With Rehearsing And Performing For Exposure
Of course: "Field cast participants — aspiring dancers, actors, singers and musicians recruited from local drill teams as well as theatrical, community and athletic...
Andre Leon Talley And The Invention Of The Self
The fashion legend was "most of all his own project, Pygmalion as well as his subject, maybe with a little bit of Icarus thrown...
