American Shakespeare Center Names A New Director
Brandon Carter, a resident actor with ASC since 2018, assumes the directorship in a new management structure that the company describes as “a coequal...
It’s Hollywood Awards Season. But It’s Awfully Quiet…
The AFI Awards were postponed. The Critics’ Choice Awards — scheduled to be televised Sunday night in hopes of filling the void left by...
Fascinating: Have We Got So Much Data That We’re Entering Into A Post-Hypothesis Era...
The complexity that this wealth of data has revealed to us cannot be captured by theory as traditionally understood. “We have leapfrogged over our...
This Year’s Golden Globes Event Was an Embarrassing Mess
Given the award show’s banishment from longtime home NBC and its failure to secure a new broadcaster, this year’s Globes were tweeted out from...
How AI Is Replacing Millions Of Jobs
While AI job automation has already replaced around 400,000 factory jobs in the U.S. from 1990 to 2007, with another 2 million on the way, AI...
Thriller: How A Famous Music School Was Airlifted Out Of Afghanistan
“It became clear, just in a matter of days, that the only way to salvage the school was to actually do a mass evacuation...
How Traditional Architecture Has Become A Right-Wing Culture Wars Battleground
This time around, the traditionalist lunatics have succeeded in taking over the asylum. Reactionary ideas hostile to the cosmopolitan, to Modernism, to modernity itself,...
The Game’s Afoot: Why Did Conan-Doyle Sign A Pirate Version Of His Holmes Novel
Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sign a pirate edition of “The Sign of the Four,” the second of the four Sherlock Holmes novels?...
We Hardly Knew Ya: Dausgaard Abruptly Quits Seattle Symphony
Seattle Symphony music director Thomas Dausgaard has abruptly stepped down from his post, midway through his third season at the top of Seattle’s flagship...
How Do You Change Dance’s Culture Of Injury?
From a very early age, dancers are taught that pain comes with the territory. “Dance is not natural. We’re stretching our bodies to extremes.”...
Why A New Version Of Citizen Kane Proves That Technology Is Making Movies Better
And that tech isn't just for action films. Citizen Kane's 4K changes are "clear even before the first shot. In the 4K transfer, the...
Artists In Canada Say They’ve Lost Half Of Their Incomes, Or More, In The...
One arts council president says bluntly that the artists need more funding, or "this situation is definitely going to have long-term consequences." - CBC
The Irish Government Is Planning To Pay A Basic Income To Two Thousand Artists
The artists - visual and performing - will earn a basic payment each week to pursue their arts, for up to three years. -...
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...
