These niche-famous people are the types who are living out the latest chapter in what it means to be in this particular corner of Manhattan at this particular moment and feeling certain, as most people want to feel when they are young and ambitious and freshly arrived, that it is the absolute center of the world. - The New...
That word “historic” is interesting. You may find that you heard these performances, as they happened. Or reviewed them. Or played them. Which may make you gulp a little. - New Criterion
As one of the UK’s most commercially successful theatre-makers, Ayckbourn might seem an odd figure to focus on. He is not cutting-edge; he is never going to convert an alienated inner-city youth to the joys of theatregoing. But he is also a local hero, who has earned the loyalty of his public by staying loyal to them. - The...
David Zaslav’s plan is to focus on making as much money as cheaply as possible. When he joined Discovery in 2006, it was a small collection of education-oriented cable channels. Zaslav turned it into the reality TV monster we know today. - The Verge
Does its very immensity undermine its utility as a source of information? How often is it burying valuable data under lots of junk? Say you search for some famous or semifamous person. Are you getting an accurate picture of that person’s life or a false, manipulated one? - The New York Times
Even as the company limits the number of visitors and keeps attendance at its U.S. theme parks below prepandemic levels, they are generating record sales and profits. - The Wall Street Journal
BookTok is real. A co-owner of The Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles says, "'We'll get a rush of customers asking for something random and we're like, 'Why does everyone want this specific book?'' ... The answer is always TikTok." - NPR
A course correction, or even a tax write-off, but "the streaming industry and the entertainment industry in general trained consumers to think they could watch what they wanted when they wanted, and it would never go away, even if it went to another streaming service." - Slate
Rising Tide Theatre co-founder George Dzundza (The Deer Hunter, Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy) says "Theater is a blood event." While movies are set in stone, he says, "If you go to a play, you are a director of sorts. You have a direct, visceral response." - Oregon ArtsWatch
Scottish actor Kate Dickie says, "I’ve had people tell me, ‘Oh, I saw a film you were in and I didn’t even realise it was you.’ That’s great because it means that you’re doing your job properly – although it’s maybe not so great for networking." - The Observer (UK)
"I went to an Erewhon supermarket in a hazmat suit. I chopped vegetables and did nothing with them. I put on makeup and rolled FaceTime calls. A director told me there was no longer a place for people like me in the movies." - The New York Times
Alice Eaton, who's 30, has helped restore Haddon Hall - set of parts of Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version), and three versions of Jane Eyre. "Each stone is its own size," she says, "and has to go back exactly in its own place." - BBC
Pianist Igor Levit "described Bolcom as one of 'the very essential composers of our time,' and also recounted with delight the way in which this composer, now 84, participated in the rehearsal process: by video conference, from his home in Ann Arbor, Mich." - The New York Times
It's especially, but not only, an issue for men. "People want to look like an action star, but may not be aware that every frame of those films has some sort of special effect involved, which might include changing the way they look on screen, too." - The Guardian (UK)
