Coachella’s Tickets Are So Expensive People Buy Them On Installment Plans. Good Idea? Or...
Coachella’s payment plan is just this: For a $599 GA ticket (including fees), fans had the option to put $49.99 down when tickets went...
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross” Isn’t A Critique Of Cutthroat Capitalism
“What if … Glengarry is instead celebrating the deceit, in fact presenting it as the epitome of manliness? What if Glengarry Glen Ross, quite possibly in ways...
How Architecture Shapes Everything About Video Games
These virtual spaces do more than serve as mere backdrops for gameplay. The design of buildings, streets and entire cities guides player emotions, behaviours...
A History Of Spelling Reform (Please Make It Simpler!)
In the early 20th century, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided the seed money for the Simplified Spelling Board, which, unlike the Spelling Reform Association,...
Study: Number Of Theatre Productions In UK Has Declined By A Third In The...
In 2024, the 40 best-funded theatre companies that make their own productions - ranging from the National Theatre to the Colchester Mercury - opened...
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Smelled As Good As They Looked
“An archaeologist and curator … in Copenhagen finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like rose, olive oil and beeswax. These...
Why “Close Reading” Can Miss The Plot
When you studied literature in school or university, I expect that you were taught, implicitly or explicitly, that this plot-focused way of reading was...
A Conservative Argument For Culture Funding Betrays The Problems With Such Arguments
Its curious incoherence is emblematic of a movement of cultural conservatives that’s lost the plot. - Artnet
SoulPepper Theatre Launches A Community “Public Domain” Project
With a full slate of free programming that ranges from workshops and classes to performance, the company is hoping to become a neighbourhood hub....
It’s Not Easy Finding Jurors For Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial
“Several dismissed jurors were open about why they couldn’t serve fairly. (One) told a pool reporter, ‘I don’t like the guy; he is a...
France Agrees To Collaborate With India On Major Controversial Museum Project
The controversy around France’s deal with India may appear more ambiguous to a Western audience. Is it France’s concern if the YYBNM decides to...
Why The “Odyssey” Is All Over The Place Right Now
“The Iliad is the poem of death. Death stalks its lines, blood soaks it. Countless young men appear in the poem only to be cut down. … But...
On The “Odyssey” And Its Ubiquity And Oddity
“We can read the Odyssey today with a sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these...
Preemptive Compliance: Orlando Suspends DEI Arts Grants “Out Of An Abundance Of Caution”
“Organizations impacted include Opera Orlando, the Orlando Ballet, and the Orlando Science Center, to name a few. The canceled grants total $200,000 dollars and were earmarked for arts...
Number Of Productions Staged By British Theatres Has Plummeted Over Last Decade
“The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres last year was down by almost a third compared with 10...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Accuses Russians Of Selling Off Art And Artifacts They’ve Looted
“Russia has stolen more than 1.7 million pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage since its full-scale invasion began, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and...
Bigger-Bodied Ballet Dancers Are The Future, Says Head Of Royal Ballet School
“Iain Mackay, artistic director of the school, said studios were focusing on strength-based training for both sexes as ballet moved away from the ‘slim’...
After Harvard Rejects His Demands, Trump Threatens Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
“’Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting...
It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist
“The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was...
The Man Behind Philadelphia Pianos
For the past several decades, Greg Sikora has tuned and voiced pianos for the biggest musical artists to play this region, from Frank Sinatra...
Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”
“In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from...
Why The Human Brain Needs Ideologies
Our brains are these amazingly predictive organs trying to constantly explain the world, because that’s our way to survive. We have to have a...
Tech Titans Propose An End To Intellectual Property
One can only imagine what the value of music would look like if copyright protections were to disappear altogether. It would not be a...
How “Six” Challenges Conventional Broadway Musical Conventions
“Six,” which runs a sleek 85 minutes as an unruly concert where performers are explicitly competing for the audience’s sympathy, might ultimately be less...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
