Tag: 04.13.21
Study: The Psychological Benefits Of Attending Live Theatre
We found that attending these plays increased empathy for people depicted in them and changed people’s political attitudes about a variety of issues related...
The Weird Pilots That Didn’t Make It To TV
TV networks spend about $100 million a year in developing pilots for series. Only a small number get to the schedule. Even fewer become...
How Cellphones Power Popular Music In Africa
“While I was doing the recording, it became really apparent that the cellphone was such a prominent actor in that transaction,” says Christopher Kirkley....
Through Assassination, Official Harassment, And Right-Wing-Media Smears, A Theatre In A West Bank Refugee...
The Freedom Theatre, founded in the Jenin camp in 2006, has as dual missions "to build back Palestinian identity destroyed by years of brutal...
The College That’s Brought Popping, Breaking, Hip Hop, And Other Urban Dance Styles Into...
The University of East London has offered a BA in "Dance: Urban Practice" (as the program is called) since 2007. Carla Trim-Vamben, the program's...
Make It Stop! Top French Publisher Pleads With Writers To Stop Sending Manuscripts
Successive Covid-19 lockdowns in France have given budding writers the time to finally work on that idea for a novel or to polish up...
Spotify Turns 15 — It Revolutionized The Music Business
How completely has streaming transformed the music world? The platform rose from 7% of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83% by...
Most People Think In Images. I Think In Sound
One of the distinctive features of my cognition is that not only do I think with sound and music; I also don’t think in...
How Beethoven (And The Philadelphia Orchestra) Brought The US And China Together
The idea that the world’s two most powerful countries can simply “decouple” as their strategic competition grows fiercer — a concept promoted by China...
Why Would Any Self-Respecting Woman Sing Schumann’s ‘Frauenliebe Und -Leben?’ In 2021? Let This...
Soprano Carolyn Sampson summarizes the texts of the eight songs in the cycle thus: "1. I can't think of anything but him; 2. He's...
‘The First Great Balanchine Dancer’, Mary Ellen Moylan, Dead At 95
"Still in her teens, Ms. Moylan began to perform principal roles with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where Balanchine, ever more enthusiastic about...
Univision And Televisa Sign Merger To Create Spanish-Language Media Giant
Univision, the largest producer of Spanish-language in the United States, and Televisa, Mexico's largest media conglomerate (and one of the world's biggest single producers...
Edinburgh International Festival Will Go On This Summer — Outdoors (Yes, In Scotland)
Last summer, COVID forced the cancellation of the flagship of the Festival City's summer events; this year, with new cases falling in Scotland and...
How Big Tech Has “Weaponized” Design Patents
Introduced in 1842, the US design patent law saw just 14 designs registered in its first year, including a typeface, a bathtub and a...
What The Closing Of The Arclight Theatres Means For Movie Theatres
The truth is, the cinema experience as we know it, is likely doomed. While it isn’t going to disappear entirely, it will become a...
Awards Shows Used To Be Ratings Gold. Now They Struggle
The Emmy Awards — already in a ratings tailspin in recent years as it no longer celebrates mass-appeal hits — showed how far audience...
‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry...
"Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of...