The Ashti Peace Choir, at the Yazidi refugee camp in northern Iraq, is trying to keep music alive despite the desperate history and circumstances of the women in the choir. The group, founded by a 22-year-old who has lived in the refugee camp since 2014, "has become part of an effort to preserve a vital part of Yazidi culture,...
Rembert's art "told the story of the Jim Crow South. It was exhibited in galleries and museums and helped support his family, though they lived in poverty." - The New York Times
OK, we'll be honest, not a musical. A play. Or two? Seven? Hm. However, why Game of Thrones? "It was an epic, at times beautiful, show and all these attempts to reanimate its corpse can feel like a cheapening of the original experience. But there’s something else: Why not host a stage production from literally any other author or...
To paraphrase Shakespeare, "Work, work your thoughts, and therein see" ... anything from Paris to London, Lyme Regis to George Orwell's final destination. - The Guardian (UK)
There's truly, in the American literary canon, only one - Merry Levov, of Philip Roth's American Pastoral. What gives? And what do literary writers believe stuttering represents in the first place? - LitHub
Kopit "thrust Off Broadway into a new era with the absurdist satirical farce Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad and earned Tony Award nominations for two wildly different plays, Indians and Wings, and the musical Nine." - The New York Times
Like most Gilded Age institutions, the Huntington has a lot to figure out. "Certainly, getting to a more equitable version of the future is going to take some work — and some unsentimental self-examination. 'We need to look with a detached historical eye and not do hagiography,' Nielsen says." - Los Angeles Times
Just ask these stand-up comedians, who have been doing sets on trains for months. There are tickets, but then there are also random subway riders. And is it official? Hm. "The show had the chaotic air of something that could get shut down at any moment by a strict police officer who was not in the mood for a...
Listen up, Bridgerton fans, blame streaming (and the focus switch of each Bridgerton book, from which the series draws). At Netflix and other streamers, "the goal is to draw paying subscribers and there’s little incentive to extend even the most popular shows for more than a few years. In that case, Soltman said, it wouldn’t be surprising to have...
Mya Johnson is 15 and Chris Cotter is 13 - and they're Black. A white TikTok influencer took their dance, and other viral dances from the site, to Jimmy Fallon ... without any credit for the choreographers. A comparison of the influencer's "challenge" and the kids' dance moves went just as viral. Cotter, at 13, is gracious about it...
Teresa Deevy wrote plays about young women coming to terms with - and pushing back on - the restrictions of life in Catholic Ireland. After Meuniere's disease caused her to become deaf, "She moved to London to study lip reading and while there became deeply immersed in theatre, deciding to become a playwright so that she 'would put the...
The pop-up event, where Nathan Lane and Savion Glover performed (one at a time) "before a masked audience of 150 scattered across an auditorium with 1,700 seats, was the first such experiment since the coronavirus pandemic caused all 41 Broadway houses to close on March 12, 2020, and industry leaders are hoping it will be a promising step on...
His character is a heavy-metal drummer who becomes deaf - very quickly. "You've got a character who is very focused on his daily grind. ... Just like we are as a culture and a society, on the treadmill - a workaholic culture. Then we have a health crisis that suddenly throws him into a kind of purgatory, and in...
