So it turns out that forcing theatres across the country to cancel or take down their productions of To Kill a Mockingbird just because a new one is on Broadway isn't the most popular move e…
As Santa Ana's Grand Central Arts Center turns 20, it's got a lot of history to celebrate, and that's because of the way the directors treats the artists they invite to residencies. It's bec…
Ferrera, star of the How to Train Your Dragon series (movie and TV) and " relevant to this conversation " of Superstore, says, "The issues that we talk about on the show are timeless and com…
The singer, perhaps most famous for being married to (and now famous for his alleged abuse of) Mandy Moore, or for re-creating a Taylor Swift album, faced requests for refunds from so many f…
Sure, Netflix's Roma won three Oscars " or maybe because the film won three Oscars " Spielberg is not OK with streaming films competing with theatrical releases. "Steven feels strongly about…
He plans for months but sometimes has to do things as prosaic as waiting for a train with the correct color poles, or taking a coastal bus to a random Welsh beach. "In the last 18 months, Th…
Great that Whalen and Stafford are leading New York City Ballet. Super. Getting closer to equality, clearing up some of the past months' terrible news, and so forth. But … problem: "Elevat…
The co-artistic director says that "the cast members' travel documents were scrutinised for three hours, with the group returning the next day to be told that one of the actors, Syed Haleem …
The theatre now has a three-year grace period. "With the announcement of Amazon's move into Arlington, the mostly vacant building became a centerpiece for the first phase of the company's ta…
Two actors who played opposite each other in two different plays end up on Broadway at the same time " each in one of those plays. How did they not end up together in at least one of them? W…
And every indie music journalist knows it. “Publicists for male indie stars ask for guarantees that allegations and evidence of an artist's bad behaviour aren't referred to in intervie…
To get an Oscar, or two, or more, you need a campaign, and a budget. Netflix is on it. “Now the costly Oscar push that Ms. Taback has orchestrated for Roma is starting to look historic…
The style – “five over one – five stories of apartments over a ground-floor ‘podium’ of parking and/or retail” – is dependent on what’s called…
In Cremona, where the mayor doubles as the president of the Antonio Stradivarius Violin Museum Foundation, sound engineers were trying to record every note a Strad could make, and every tran…
James, who is originally Jamaican and who lives in Minnesota, says of his African fantasy epic, “I was reading a lot of the original myths and legends. That's one of the reasons I want…
The alternative? The artist yanks her “prestigious new exhibition of work.” Goldin said, “What is the museum for? Art is transcendent and that makes it very, very dirty if …
The actors are OK with all of this: “The nudity has struck some theatergoers as so extreme and the sex so prolonged that the actors can hear members of the audience gasp when it begins…
The producer: “There are so many things to balance. Some viewers want to see glamour. You have to pay attention to where there is humor and where there is music. When do we guess that …
Koyama covered jazz in Japan throughout the 1960s and 1970s, was an avid interviewer of New York jazz musicians in their homes and wherever they played, and then he became a producer of jazz…
Everyone’s looking, in a city like London. Also, “it takes a special kind of confidence to blow millions on a flat with a swanky glass exterior " one that is positioned a stone's…
Winter made the city’s architecture come alive for the people he taught (at Occidental) and those he took on quirky, packed bus tours of the city he adopted. “Winter's gift to th…
“Given the amount of time a modern human being spends watching film and television, a little familiarity with the form doesn't seem like a bad thing.” So, here are all of the lin…
The chairman of the board also happens to be New York City Opera’s biggest benefactor. And: “Its board is down to a mere three members. It has largely spent the more than $5 mill…
The Garden Bridge, somewhat, one might say, like Brexit, has so far not appeared (and the bridge, at least, never will). “An itemised bill for its failure has just arrived: …
Yes, minstrel shows started in the 19th century – and were one of the U.S.’s first popular forms of entertainment. But they were never seen as harmless, at least not by African A…