"(An) investigation was launched after the 84-year-old actor had been accused of sexual harassment, including making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set during work." - Deadline
Rafson becomes Producing Artistic Director of the influential Off-Broadway troupe as of June 21, succeeding John Doyle, known for his stripped-down productions of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Company, and Assassins in which the actors play instruments as well as speaking and singing. - Playbill
So's the entire publishing industry. "(The chain's) unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested in physical stores, makes it an essential anchor in a world upended by online sales and a much larger player: Amazon." - The New York Times
Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton N. Minow called it in 1961) began earning regular comparisons to great cinema and literature. - The Atlantic
Weeks, days, hours, minutes—especially minutes—are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology’s lesser sibling. In the globalized information environment we currently enjoy, we should and must construct better timescales. - Wired
We should hesitate to call someone a liar because we are not privy to other people’s motives or states of mind. That a statement is untrue can usually be established beyond reasonable doubt; that the person who said it knew it was untrue is harder to establish. - Prospect
This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even sharing tips on how to do so. Amazon allows readers to return ebooks up to 14 days after purchase, even if the whole book has been read. - Melville House
He wrote last year on the website UnHerd that he had been “elected a non-person by the Left many years ago,” and added: “It’s uncomfortable, and it’s costly and sad to see the happy fields in which I played all those decades — Broadway, book publishing, TV and film — fold up and Hail Caesar, but there it is.” - The...
In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook of Hitler, not the Cold War. He has now made it impossible for the Met to work with his artistic cronies or those cultural entities he subsidizes. - Playbill
"Born in the late 1960s in the minds of two Canadian filmmakers looking to improve the documentary film-watching experience on the festival circuit, IMAX has now become synonymous with blockbusters that regularly achieve multi-billion-dollar box office results." - Quartz
For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in history. - London Review of Books
Hand-painted benjarong was a super-luxury product in the 18th and 19th centuries, and early 20th-century Buddhist temples were clad in benjarong shards. Yet the craft had died out by 1930 and would now be gone altogether, but for a group of artisans who revived it in the 1980s. - National Geographic
“You truly know exactly the kind of organization you’re funding through this model, as well as how big of an impact you actually make.” - Seattle Times
"While hardly a new genre, confessional theatre is unique in its focus on the true stories of its creators and its intimate insights into their personal lives. But why have we seen a wave of these theatre stories in recent years?" Writer Jo Pickup offers some explanations. - ArtsHub (Australia)
