Yearly Archives: 2021
What’s Going To Happen To Democracy?
No one really knows. "I have many ideas for how we might improve democracy in the United States, but it is genuinely difficult for...
Pour One Out For The Smallest Target In The World
It was performance art, a performance piece that stood for years, crumbling in the Texas desert and sun. - Glasstire
Yay, Winning A Pulitzer Price For Drama, But Yikes, Winning It In April 2020
The absolute worst time to win, perhaps, but Michael R. Jackson's Strange Loop somehow persisted through every theatre in the world being dark and...
Chente Has Left The Rancho
Vincente Fernández was a "debonair Mexican crooner with the buttery baritone whose romantic rancheras and timeless folk anthems defined the grit and romance of...
A Virus Outbreak Has Delayed The La Scala Ballet Opening
The venue "has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks, just days after the famed Milan theater staged its...
Live Music Is Collapsing Again In The UK
At least, live pop music is seeing its attendance take another dive; some artists estimate that as many as 40 percent of those who...
The Issues With West Side Story Can’t Be Solved By Untranslated Spanish
Indeed, the Spanish "obscures the fact that the entire film and its depiction of Puerto Rican communities are still inherently mediated through the story’s...
Weren’t The Golden Globes Supposed To Just Go Away?
Why are they still here? "Hollywood as a whole called on the HFPA to exit stage left, take a beat and come back stronger...
Mary, Queen Of Scots, Had Serious Paper-Folding Game, As Did Elizabeth I
Mary's final letter was to her cousin Henry III of France. "An international team of researchers have found that Mary used a delicate folding...
Disney Tried To Contain The Allegations Of Assault Against Its Tony
As the studio pushed West Side Story back last year, allegations of assault against one of the movie's main characters burst into public consciousness....
How Art, Music, And Drama Teachers Are Helping Kids Re-Adapt To School
Teachers in the arts "have a unique ability to affect students' agency, the sense of being able to take what is a mess or...
Some Of The Props From Apple’s ‘Dickenson’ Are Going To An Unusual Spot
The series is ending, but its costumes and other props will live on at the Emily Dickenson Museum, while the made-for-TV carefully recreated manuscripts...
In The Early Days Of Lockdown, We Were All Going To Read Proust Or...
That's not exactly what happened (perhaps not a surprise, what with global trauma and death?). - The Guardian (UK)
West Side Story, Reviewed Rapturously, Isn’t Performing Well In Theatres
And no, that's not because "Gen Z doesn't like musicals" or something like that. Instead, it's a Spielberg problem. "Over the last 20 years,...
The Engineer Who Became A Dance-Battle Musician
Jlin: "Math is my first love, not music, though they're both one and the same." - NPR
Remember When Warner Bros Decided To Put 2021’s New Movies On Streaming?
Turns out that much complained about and, to Hollywood, highly disruptive move was a winner for its streamer, HBO Max. Through day-and-date movie releases...
The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith Said He Wasn’t The Made-For-TV Group’s Only Real Musician
Nesmith was called "the quiet Monkee" by the marketers behind the TV show, but "he was musician enough to have a modest solo career...
Expelled Member Of Golden Globes Sues Organization
The lawsuit claims that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association expelled Magnus Sundholm to get back at his partner, who had been a whistleblower against...
The Best Literary Descriptions Of Snow
Sometimes it's better to read than to experience. "I think I like winter weather best when it’s on the page and not the thing...
We’ve Fallen Out Of Love With Method Acting
Or at least some of us have, according to the reaction to a New Yorker profile of actor Jeremy Strong. There's "a sense that...
Two Seattle Artists Have Been Charged With Faking Native American Ancestry And Art
"By flooding the market with counterfeit Native American art and craftwork, these crimes cheat the consumer, undermine the economic livelihood of Native American artists,...
Author Anne Rice Has Died At 80
Rice, whose Interview with the Vampire was a huge hit, died from complications of a stroke, her son reported. Rice's Gothic novels and massive...
The Secret History Of Sesame Street
Photos shot as part of Cold War propaganda in 1970 show the utopian ideals - including Jim Henson's love of creativity and everyone's experimentation...
Barry Harris Was A Jazz Pianist Who Embodied The Spirit Of Bebop
The 91-year-old musician and teacher may have contracted COVID-19 at one final performance where he received the Jazz Master award from the NEA. -...
What Is West Side Story – A Musical? A Film? Why Not An Opera?
Even as the new movie is playing in theatres, "everything about how West Side Story has unfolded suggests opera might be an ideal form...