3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Or rather, she took her mother’s story and melded it into a new play. Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus on why her new play includes pirates: “It's a pirate attitude that got my mom to …
What it’s like to go to the theatre and see a play about the Constitution right now: “The play's concerns could hardly have felt more viscerally urgent. In the row behind me, a w…
Cynthia Rider, who has been with the festival since 2013, says the board just offered to renew her contract, and she declined, “adding that the near-simultaneous departure with Rauch w…
The book is designed to avoid stereotypes – and give actors a better chance at roles outside of the terrorist, gang member, or other confining (or lazily cast) roles. “This proje…
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre cleaned up at the awards, which – though they’re held in London – celebrate achievement in regional theatre.
Has anything changed for Asians and other people of color in the theatre and movie world? Aasif Mandvi: “When you tell a story in Hollywood about brown people or black people or any pe…
Playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes: “Even positive reviews yank my art from my hands and serve up my heart like a well-dressed ham. Even rave reviews have deposited me, post-celebratio…
Stage directors with chest pains, 26 outdoor performances canceled or moved inside, and at least $2 million in lost revenue hit the festival this year, with four wildfires burning for months…
The Notch Theatre Company’s model of talking about public lands includes plays that are generated from a lot – a lot – of community meetings and input. “The plays als…
It's a fine line, and it's very easy to get it all wrong: "Too many ads can motivate users to pay for an ad-free version, but push many more to listen less or abandon the service. The study …
A blockbuster strategy has two basic, and massive, problems, one being that people who come for blockbusters simply don't return for anything else. (The other is, basically, marketing costs.…
Parliament had to intervene so the show could be produced in London - yes, it took an act of government to allow the actors to be naked onstage. Back on Broadway, during previews in 1968, sh…
Why? It's obvious: "More than 50% of U.S. consumers aged 18-49 in U.S. are 'light' TV viewers (in the bottom one-third of the total TV audience based on minutes viewed), according to Nielsen…
Writer Celeste Ng explains the Gen X bookstore experience, including those joys of the mall: "I grew up haunting the B. Dalton and Waldenbooks in the mall. So my first indies"the long-gone B…
Hank Azaria, the white actor who has voiced Apu for 29 seasons, says he's ready to step down, and that a South Asian actor could step in - but, while that would be welcome, the problems with…
In Boyle Heights, there's a delicate balance to maintain - the city knows Boyle Heights residents are not interested in a threatening wave of gentrification. So a one-day "play street" plan …
Abilene Christian University spent many years quashing college students who wanted to dance on campus; the first on-campus dance was held a mere six years ago. But now a donor has stepped up…
Oh: "The dramatic photograph of an anteater approaching a glowing termite mound in the dead of night was originally considered a worthy winner of a Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. T…
That's what one artist believes. "Fuller said he was inspired after a cycling tour of the Great Wall of China in 2014 and 'felt compelled" to move to the 'Chinese mega city' last year. He sa…
Ohhhhkaaaay, Silicon Valley PR machine: "AR board games promise a host of advantages over their real world counterparts. They eliminate the need to set up complicated boards and remove the f…
The game - for instance, getting more money back on CVS cards, or figuring out which credit card to use in which specific situation - is infinite, and rigged. "It's not a zero-sum, winners-a…
Whoa: "The orchestra, founded in 1978 by Bruce Morton Wright and supported by Gannon University, announced it would officially disband at the end of its current season after 40 years of offe…
Andrea Bruce took a photography class for fun in the last semester of her undergrad degree in 1995, and since then, she's photographed some of the most challenging and conflict-ridden places…
The city has gone through various creative processes to fund its other attractions, including Union Station, the National World War I Museum, and the Kansas City Museum. "Why didn't city off…
On Thursday, the Nan Goldin-led group PAIN traveled to the capital to protest the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Art. Goldin said, "We are here to call out all of the Sacklers. ... The Sac…
