After paying $15 billion for a "sustained ramp in its original content slate in '19," Netflix's cash content spend growth will "moderate" in the years ahead, BMO Capital Markets analyst Dani…
Which beliefs exactly should be judged as "out of bounds""and who gets to be the referee? How wide is the circle of ideas that are not even worthy of discussion? Such questions are themselve…
“Off the top of my head, too-hot-to-handle topics now include anything to do with gender, sex, race, immigration, disability, social class, obesity and Islam (surely that list is too s…
Sometimes philosophers argue for conclusions far outside the domain of 'respectable' positions; conclusions that could be hijacked by those with intolerant, racist, sexist or fundamentalist …
'We really see that we have a role in creating pathways for creative people who are local and who are in the community to create work, have their ideas and get their work onto a stage " path…
It's a global phenomenon, and people ask me, "Why take on a global phenomenon?" You know what else is a global phenomenon? Gone With the Wind. I think Hamilton is probably the bi…
Mann didn't just lead Princeton's $23 million theatre from a respected regional outpost to a Tony-winning incubator of new work and new talent. While there she also built on an already groun…
“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see, or hear, or touch. That deep part of you, that allows y…
White, black, young and old: this is what an inclusive theatre looks like. That is absolutely what theatre should aspire to, but it does not mean that works of art should not tell stories th…
The conflict that ensued over how the theater could accommodate Mason Wicks-Lim's allergy eventually grew into a legal battle that created a rift in the community, highlighting the social st…
“I saw ‘A New Hope’ with both the NSO and the BSO in September and found that the experience confirmed something I had started to suspect: As a classical music critic, I wa…
But – these stories have been rewritten before in earlier scientific study. And before we declare a definitive new theory, there are questions… – The New York Times
Francis Fukuyama had a great idea. His “end of history” suggested a way of thinking about what was now happening to the world and synthesized the work of a number of philosophers…
Low value? The right-leaning group says that some arts degrees offer poor income prospects for graduates and little economic return for the government that supports such degrees. This thinki…
For centuries, the Catholic Church was one of the world's most important collectors and patrons of art, but in recent decades, the Vatican's holiday nativity scene has often been one of its …
“It’s enough that a 12-year-old knows that a rape has taken place. They do not need to see it, no matter how discreetly it’s filmed.” – BBC
Ann O’Loughlin: “All women writers face an uphill struggle to have their work recognised in the same way as their male counterparts, but for those of us writing bestselling comme…
These historic gardens, originally built for Agra's nobility, are two of the city's few riverfront gardens that survive today. The project of bringing them back to their original glory has i…
Make-Believe is a new podcast company in Chicago, and is, as Jeremy McCarter likes to put it, is a podcast that's "one part live theater, one part TV production, one part social science̷…
Amazon is frequently blamed for not just disrupting the way people buy books, but for making it difficult for writers to make a living. Now the company is fighting back, taking aim at an Aut…
"I'm especially proud of pumping up the volume on all things indigenous. We're playing a leadership role in the world here in Canada [recognising indigenous work]. We talked about that since…
“Taken together, these two rules will subject huge swaths of online expression to interception and arbitrary censorship, and give the largest news companies in Europe the power to deci…
Milwaukee’s Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has a need to attract new audiences (and don’t we all). So there’s a plan to refresh the complex’s campus, including…
Philip Kennicott: “When we remember our lives authentically, we ask a fundamental question: Why did I remember this thing, at this moment? The "Why now?" question gives memory its mean…
The dropout rate at American universities has been high. What to do? Use mountains of data to find better ways of predicting who will do well when they get in. And no, it’s not just lo…