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How Pete Docter Is Healing Pixar After #MeToo And #TimesUp
Things might have seemed iffy for the multibillion-dollar animation powerhouse after its founding creative director, John Lasseter, abruptly left in 2017 amid allegations of...
‘Obscenities, Inanities And Treason’: A Critic On The Riot At The U.S. Capitol
Philip Kennicott: "The whole drama, the body language, the flags and the onslaught, was borrowed from other dramas — genuine displays of revolutionary fervor...
MD High Court Rules Rap Lyrics Can Be Used As Evidence Against Defendant
"Three weeks before trial, Montague used a jailhouse telephone to record a rap verse, which was then uploaded to Instagram. , the State...
The Stage 100 For 2021 Honors British Theatre’s Response To COVID
"Arts workers in the NHS, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actor Michael Balogun and theatre company 20 Stories High are among those recognised in this...
Parisian Billionaire’s Museum Is, At Last, Ready To Open
"At 84, the billionaire François Pinault will finally realise a 20-year plan to build a private museum for his contemporary art collection in Paris....
Orbán Gov’t In Hungary Fans Rightist Backlash Against Black Lives Matter Artwork
"Commentators on pro-government television chatshows threatened to pull the statue down if it was erected, and compared it to putting up a monument to...
Why Doesn’t The Entertainment Biz Give Proper Credit To Its Choreographers?
The Emmys and Tonys give their Best Choreography trophies without the TV cameras running; the Oscars don't even have a category for dancemakers, and...
Getting the Question(s) Right
As a blogger, I think I’m supposed to begin the New Year with reflections and projections. But the traumas of 2020 are still too...
Analyzing The Fallout From The New York Times’s ‘Caliphate’ Podcast
The Peabody- and Pulitzer-winning audio series lost much of its luster (and gave up its awards) when its primary subject was revealed to be...
Who Exactly Invented The Alphabet, And When?
The Sumerians had cuneiform and the Egyptians hieroglyphics, both complex and difficult to master, but who developed the system where each character represents a...
A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here
"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to...
How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A...
Despite the disastrous rollout of a book that had been advance-hyped by some as a Grapes of Wrath-level work of literature, Jeanine Cummins's thriller...
Squatters Invade Site Of Oldest City In Americas And Threaten To Kill Archaeologists
The place is Caral, estimated to be 5,000 years old and now a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Peruvian coastal desert about 125...
Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59
" was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose...
Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not...
Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters —...
To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To...
The long-financially-strapped school — which shut itself down last March, only to reverse that decision a month later after raising $3 million — has...
The Current State Of Lockdowns Around Europe
Rules vary quite a bit between the eight countries covered here. The Netherlands, which has seen a huge surge in cases, is quite strict;...
Britain’s Gone Into Another Lockdown. How Are The Arts Affected?
It's not as bad as it was last spring, and, in London, not too different from the last couple of weeks. "As per Gov.uk...
Grammy Awards Postponed For Six Weeks Due To Pandemic
The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah, had been scheduled for January 31. It will now take place on March 14, due to, as a...
He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
At the height of the disco craze in the late 1970s, Empire Rollerdrome, a rink in Brooklyn across the street from where the Brooklyn...
Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working...
Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
Her horrible 2020 began in January when movers dropped her four-pedal Fazioli, the instrument on which she made every recording she'd done since 2003....
Figures Are In: North American Movie Box Office Income Was Down 80% In 2020
"As predicted, domestic movie tickets sold between Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 came generated an estimated $2.3 billion (or $2.28 billion) compared to $11.4...
In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
"Imported films accounted for only about a sixth of China's total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan...
Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
" described '21st-century sensibilities' as having prevented the inclusion of the play in Tales from Shakespeare, his retelling of 10 Shakespeare plays for...