Donmar Warehouse, A Dynamo Of London’s Theatre Scene, Loses All National Funding
Arts Council England has cut 100% of its grant to the company, which is known for small-scale productions that often go on to successful...
$100,000 Giller Prize For Best Canadian Fiction Work Goes To Suzette Mayr’s “The Sleeping...
"The Calgary-based Mayr won for her novel ..., which follows a queer, Black sleeping car porter making a treacherous trip from Montreal to Vancouver...
How TikTok Is Changing Not Just Content, But How We Think About The Medium
The overriding focus on the algorithm—and the content it delivers—has caused us to overlook a central part of TikTok’s operating logic: the phone. A...
Activists Attacking Art – Forcing Us To Consider Our Values
By attacking a famous and high-value cultural target like Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring — it even starred in its own movie — the protesters are asking...
The Inimitable Mr. B (A New Biography)
Balanchine is an unusual subject for what critics like to call, and I’ll go there, a magisterial biography. He was a shy, somewhat receding...
The Dreariness Of Book Clubs
I read and write about books for fun. And yet, time and again, my mind goes blank during book discussions, and all I can...
Art As Difficult Conversation? That’s Rather Limiting, Isn’t It?
Art is now viewed as a pretext for collective discourse, raising “issues” that provide the raw material for op-eds, Twitter threads, college seminars, and...
New Orange County Museum Disappoints
With the museum, designed by Thom Mayne, obviously the headliner, OCMA might have shown off its collection as the main exhibition, with perhaps a tangy...
Toronto’s Habourfront Theatre: Exec Director Leaves, Board Resigns, So What’s Next?
Last week, mere days after long-time director Gaëtane Verna left for a bigger job in the United States, board members resigned en masse, saying interference...
David Duchovny, Playwright?
Duchovny has moved fluidly between social circles, careers, and media. He was well into graduate school, preparing the fancifully titled (but never written) PhD...
A Hula Renaissance
Real hula is primal, archetypal, esoteric and ever- evolving. And it’s now shared digitally all over the world. This is a good thing, because...
Time To Get Rid Of Oscar’s Best Foreign Film Category?
Every year, the Academy tweaks the rules, trying to improve the controversial and oft-criticized process by which the international nominees are selected: But they...
Where Many Have Faltered, Boston Dance Theatre Aims To Step On Sure Ground
"Unlike the members of the Boston Ballet, who are on season-long salary, local contemporary troupes pay their dancers by the hour for rehearsals and...
Opening A Small Town Bookstore At The Height Of The Pandemic Wasn’t Easy
But Roman philosophers helped a lot. Truly. - LitHub
Danny Boyle Says Brits Just May Not Be Very Good At Making Movies
The Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire said, "As a nation, our two art-forms are theatre, in a middle-class sense, and pop music, because we...
When Book Props Flash Warnings Of What’s To Come
On the second season of the hit White Lotus, the secret's in the books, if you've only read them. - Slate
Putin Sets The Stage For Cultural Looting Of Ukraine
Martial law declaration "grants the country the power to 'evacuate' items of economic, social, and cultural significance. Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk are the...
Rebecca Godfrey, 54, Who Wrote With Generosity Toward Teenage Murderers
Mary Gaitskill called Godfrey's Under the Bridge "'a remarkable piece of investigative journalism,' adding that Ms. Godfrey 'allows us to almost see what is...
The LAPD Officer Who Covered For Les Moonves Highlights Issues For Victims
Hours after the victim went to the station "to report that Moonves had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s ... LAPD Capt. Cory Palka...
Northern Ireland Aims To Remain A Hot Filming Destination
It's not just Game of Thrones, but Line of Duty, The Fall, and more to come. Why? Says one production manager, "Thirty minutes from...
In Texas, The Most Competitive Season May Be Mariachi Competition Time
A first-place trophy at the Mariachi Vegas Extravaganza gives the bands rights to call themselves "national champions." But post-pandemic, whew. It's been a lot...
Rising Star Xochitl Gomez On Dealing With The Trolls
When she was on The Babysitter's Club, the Latina teen got a ton of online hate from people who expected a blonde, blue-eyed character....
Yes, You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover
After all, publishers spend a fair amount of time on it. "Whether the genre is romance, thriller or fantasy, artists, designers and authors who collaborate...
Douglas McGrath, Actor And Director Whose One-Person Show Just Opened Off Broadway, 64
His director, the actor John Lithgow, said, "He was a dream to direct. ... None of us had ever worked with someone who was...
Disney Drops Vaccination Requirements On Its TV Shows
The "Return to Work" protocol has been extended through January of 2023 with the unions on board, and "other protocols including masking and testing...
