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Hollywood Has A New Champion Boss-From-Hell: Sharon Waxman Of TheWrap
Move over, Scott Rudin. As one former staffer put it, "I don't say this lightly. Sharon Waxman is one of the most awful people...
Is Releasing A Movie Only In Theaters Elitist And Unfair?
"How is it that a quintessentially democratic cultural activity — buying a ticket and some popcorn and finding a seat in the dark —...
More Than Half Of British Theatres Have Gone Back To In-Person-Only Performances
"Research has found that 56% of publicly subsidised theatres that had at least one online performance during the first 18 months of the pandemic...
Progress: Italy’s Arts Venues Allowed To Open At Full Capacity
"After months of struggling with an income from 50% houses the Council of Ministers has decided that theatres, cinemas, and cultural venues in the...
Oscar Wilde — Martyr? Wit? Predator? Artist? “Posing Somdomite”? All Of The Above, Which...
"The refracted versions of self that appear in his writing allowed him to test out real-life modes of being; in turn, the acts of...
Explaining The Unexplainable Career Of Laurie Anderson
Sam Anderson: "The anti-careerism of her career is part of what has made her illegible to mainstream audiences. Although a legend in some circles,...
How A Little Book-Of-The-Month Mail-Order Club Laid Ground For The Gay Rights Movement
"In early-1950s America, Donald Webster Cory had probably the largest L.G.B.T. mailing list in the country, and maybe in the world." (Mr. Cory was...
So How Did the Elgin Marbles End Up At The British Museum In The...
The short answer is that Lord Elgin simply took them from the Parthenon and shipped them home to London. True as such, but, as...
Verbatim Drama, Straight From Real Life, Comes To Broadway
Tina Satter, whose Is This A Room is a transcript of the FBI interrogation of intelligence leaker Reality Winner, and Lucas Hnath, whose Dana...
What Runaway Hit “Squid Game” Shows About South Korea’s Problems (It Isn’t Pretty)
"(The Netflix series's success) might be somewhat ironic given that Squid Game is all about socioeconomic divides, the exploitation of the poor by the...
“A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority”: Tenured Princeton Professor Gets Fired And Goes Nuts...
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, having been pushed out as dean of Princeton's architecture school in 2014, was dismissed from the faculty by unanimous vote of the...
“Friends, We Are In For The Adventure Of A Lifetime”: Salonen’s Inaugural Concert At...
Joshua Kosman: "To say that a new era ... has begun at Davies Symphony Hall is true as far as it goes. But that...
Dance Alumni Sue UNC School Of The Arts, Alleging Pattern Of Sexual Abuse
Seven plaintiffs who attended UNCSA as undergraduates during the 1980s give detailed descriptions of predatory behavior, including long-term affairs, by instructors in the school's...
Kennedy Center’s Backstage Workers Vote To Authorize Strike
The unanimous vote by members of the IATSE local comes more than a year after the expiration of their previous contract. Still at issue,...
The 50 Largest Contemporary Dance Companies In The U.S.: A Look At The Numbers
Among the key finds in this new study are that, in the aggregate, contemporary dance in the U.S. operates with less than a quarter...
The Novels That Really Want To Change The World? Satires
"'Satire ... does not come with some kind of manifesto for a better world. It tells you what's wrong; it doesn't tell you what...
Holocaust Museum LA Plans To Transform Itself With Major Expansion
When it moved into its current location in 2010, the museum expected 15,000 visitors a year; by 2020, it was getting 65,000. Now, with...
Hip-Hop Does Not Owe Anyone Political Consciousness Or Moral Virtue
"To generations of listeners, Public Enemy were the ideal of a hip-hop group: fiery and politically engaged, marching through the streets to demand change....
How Three New York City Ballet Dancers Prepared Themselves For An Uncertain Return To...
Gia Kourlas: "To get a better understanding of what this strange time has been like, I checked in with … a member of the...
60-Hour Workweeks Are Regular In Film And TV All Over The World: Survey
"A global survey of working conditions has found long working hours are now the norm across the film and television industries worldwide, with 50-...
A Wave Of Unionizing At US Museums, With Baltimore The Most Recent
"Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art have announced plans to form a union, making the employees the latest in a nationwide push for...
Protesters Picket Opening Night At Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre
"The protest is a revival of efforts this summer …(against) what they describe as a toxic culture. … Former employees passed out fliers decrying...
Houston Symphony And Musicians Sign Longest Contract In Their History
"The contract went into effect Oct. 1 and runs through Oct. 3, 2026. The deal includes matters of health care, restoration of the musicians'...
Plagued By Internal Turmoil, American Shakespeare Center Cancels Fall Season
"(With) the Staunton, Va.-based troupe, known for its Elizabethan-style, no-frills approach to the classics, … convulsed by defections and division, it has abruptly canceled...
Nobel Prize For Literature 2021 Goes To Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
The author of ten novels, born and raised on Zanzibar and resettled in England as a refugee in the 1960s, was cited for "his...
