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Like Many Others, This Small Theatre Company Would Just Like The Old Normal Back,...
At the Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, Oregon, the founder and managing director is so very done with the pandemic. "We’re a live theater...
Nach Waxman, Who Founded Manhattan’s Bookstore Of Culinary Knowledge, 84
Waxman founded Kitchen Arts & Letters in a former butcher shop in 1983, and for decades, he provided what he called "professional tools" for...
What’s Up With The Not-Quite-There Dream Ballet In The Musical Spoof Schmigadoon?
Though they become a joke in the fifth episode of the show, dream ballets used to signal deeper emotions in musicals - but now...
Medieval Literature Scholars, Movie Critics, And Fans Of King Arthur Walk Into A Bar
And they all disagree about the most recent adaptation of the anonymously written poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the movie starring...
We Need To Talk About The Ethics Of Digital Resurrection
The latest in questionable use of an artist's likeness or image, and/or voice, after death: "A hologram of Whitney Houston will perform a six-month...
Jacob Desvarieux, Musician Who Created Zouk Style, Dies Of Covid At 65
"Desvarieux and the founder of Kassav’, the bassist Pierre-Edouard Décimus, created a style called zouk by fusing Afro-Caribbean traditions of the French Antilles with sleek...
There’s No Joy For An Actor In Playing A Perfect Character
That is, the character might be perfect for the actor - perfectly broken. - The Observer (UK)
A Brief History Of Art At The Olympics
Leni Riefenstahl, Andy Warhol, the Black Power salute, and this year's floating heads - there's a long history of, and often a large budget...
Jane Withers, Child Star Of Depression-Era Hollywood, 95
Withers was "an antidote to the cloying sweetness of Shirley Temple," and later became moderately famous as Josephine the Plumber in Comet ads. -...
How The Met Became Cooler Than MoMA This Summer
Live music, of course: "By activating these spaces in ways that shed the Met’s stuffiness, the museum is broadening what performance can be." -...
As Golden Gate Park Enacts A Car Ban, Its Museums Stress Out
The road through the park has been closed since the start of the pandemic - and so have the museums. But now, as museums...
The Day A Guerrilla Artist Changed Los Angeles Freeway Signage Forever
"Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety...
New Rules Would Eliminate Red Tape In Return Of Remains To Native Tribes
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but "tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums...
Live Music Venues Try To Adapt To Delta Variant, New Rules
While the music promoter Live Nation said that artists or bands themselves could set masking and vaccination requirements, some venues in places like L.A....
A Tate Donor Wants His Art Displayed, Or Wants It Back
And that's because the museum made promises about the donation of a Francis Bacon collection - promises the donor says it hasn't kept. -...
Spotify Knows More About Us Than Even Facebook
And if you don't want the company to track literally everything you do, there are a few ways around it. - Wired
Ilona Royce Smithkin, Artist And Muse In Fashion And Art, 101
Smithkin was "an orange-haired nonagenarian with matching two-inch eyelashes caught fire in the world of fashion, starring in a documentary film and joining...
Discriminating Against A Pregnant Actor? Pay Up
The producers claim they were concerned it might cost them money in post-production to digitally remove a baby bump. The British court was like,...
A Return To Broadway, But Not To Normal
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu changed the ending of her play Pass Over before its debut as the first show to open since Broadway closed in...
The Slightly Horrifying New Art Of The Double Emoji
Just because you can doesn't mean you should, Google. - Slate
When A Producer Knows What She’s Worth, But Hollywood Doesn’t
Marcia Nasatir's "perseverance, loyalty, impressive track record and eagerness to help younger proteges ('Why not be nice?,' she said of her altruism. 'It doesn’t...
Banksy-Like Pieces Appear All Over England’s East Coast
Rather hilariously, "Banksy expert Prof Paul Gough, principal and vice chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, said he was 'pretty sure' the works were by...
Sculptor James Earl Reid, 78
Reid created Baltimore's iconic statue of Billie Holiday, and took a case with important impacts on intellectual and creative property all the way to...
Stuck On Stupid
When a writers' organization makes the same, or similar, racist mistakes year after year, can it reform? The RWA's recent choices aren't looking good....
Marlee Matlin Says Deaf Is Not A Costume
That is, it's not something non-Deaf actors can simply take on and off to perform various roles. - The Guardian (UK)
