Playwright Dominque Morisseau Pulls Her Play From The Geffen
The entire run of Paradise Blue has been canceled. The playwright wrote on Facebook "that her decision came after she discovered that Black women...
One Way To Enjoy The Harry Potter Universe Again
A Harry Potter universe free of J.K. Rowling's anti-trans commentary! A universe where the fanfiction pairing "Wolfstar" is real. It's 500,000 words long, even...
As Coronavirus Surges Again In Europe, Restrictions On Performance Return
"After months of relative normalcy, Europe’s opera houses, concert halls and theaters are reintroducing measures all too familiar from earlier phases of the pandemic,...
Stephen Sondheim Solved Puzzles Of Theatre, And Much More
"His achievement is Shakespearean. Like Shakespeare, he inherited an art form and theater scene from a previous generation, then pushed the boundaries of what...
Sondheim Fans Gather To Mourn, Together, At Piano Bars Across Manhattan
"It seemed important to hold a space for folks to feel whatever they needed to, to sing and cry and laugh and be with...
Composer And Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Master Of Musical Theatre, 91
Impossible to sum the central figure of American musical theatre up, but: "Sondheim not only bound music, lyrics and book inextricably together, but he...
The Man Trying To Fix DC’s Broken Arts Commission
It is one of the country’s leaders in funding — its $38 million is one of the nation’s largest per capita — but it...
An Artificial Reality Of Self-Improvement?
If computers gave each and every one of us a better way to gauge where to put our resources and energy and everyone of...
“Superstar” Actor Arrested In Connection With Jan. 6 Riot
James Beeks, who performs in Superstar under the stage name James T. Justis, is charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia with obstruction...
US Libraries See Surge In Demands To Ban Books
“Social media is amplifying local challenges and they’re going viral, but we’ve also been observing a number of organisations activating local members to go...
Filter Me This, Batman: Yassify Takes On Famous Images
To “yassify” something is to apply several beauty filters to a picture using FaceApp, an A.I. photo-editing application, until its subject — be that...
A Surge In Ballroom Dance In South America. But…
Latin America’s ballroom scene is relatively new. It started in 2013 when a group of dancers began hosting vogue battles in Brazil, and has...
Rethink: Why Shouldn’t Shelter For Homeless People Be Beautiful?
“Design was often not seen as an important aspect of homeless housing. They were faceless vanilla blocks that looked cheap and made people, by...
Is The Working Class Shut Out Of Today’s Art?
It’s not possible to live authentically as a member of the working class without self-annihilating or folding oneself into the straitjacket of the middle...
Diversifying Your Emotional States
The more finely you can identify different body states—distinguishing, say, among aggravation, irritation, frustration, hostility, anxiety, and disgruntlement—the more you will understand yourself, and...
These Days You Can Bet On Almost Anything. But Why?
The most straightforward reason for the surge in gambling is a change to the law: In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the Professional...
How Music For The Movies Is Evolving
Film music may be a genre, but all that means is music used in a film. Other than that, anything the director will let...
With Big Ceremony, Egypt Reopens Ancient Avenue Of The Sphinxes
The road, also known as Road of the Rams, dates back 3,400 years, Reuters reports. However, it was first discovered in the late 1940s,...
Magnus Carlsen Has Been World Chess Champion Since His Teens. The World Of Chess...
Computer-assisted preparation makes it ‘harder and harder’ to demonstrate the superiority of his intuition and strategic thinking in classical games. Players with good memories,...
Shortened Comic-Con Returns, But Many Dealers Won’t Attend
No matter the time of year, the energy of Comic-Con thrives in Southern California’s comic book stores — spaces deeply entwined within its culture....
Labor Unrest Grows: Near-IATSE Strike Is Sign Of Things To Come
Union members have grown impatient with worsening working conditions and IATSE’s long tradition of avoiding nationwide walkouts. IATSE members in October overwhelmingly supported a strike...
End Of Times – Identifying The Anthropocene
In the face of such debilitating immensity, we cannot merely shrug and take a selfie. We cannot allow the scale of the crises we...
The Spanglification Of Languages
It is becoming clear that the mixed nature of Spanglish represents a general phenomenon. Among people born in and growing up in neighborhoods like...
Our Ancient Attraction To Glass
In a world filled with the buff, brown and sand hues of more utilitarian Late Bronze Age materials, glass — saturated with blue, purple,...
Nope: Tolkien Estate Blocks Crypto Coin “JRR Token”
The developer said in response that JRR Token was intended to reference “a unique form of digital currency”, rather than the late fantasy author,...
