Her last lawsuit against Hollywood made case law, establishing protection for workers in personal services contracts - and helped break the studio system. Now, if this lawsuit against FX and…
The numbers are, to put it mildly, shite. "That gives us 85 percent male at our most conservative estimate and around 91 percent looking at our two more probabilistic estimates. That would m…
The studio, which funded last year's Best Picture winner Moonlight and this year's Florida Project ... and Lady Bird as well. But "how has the company so quickly created such a strong consum…
He is so very finished with this nonsense (this nonsense that has utterly permeated popular culture). "'We know J.J. Abrams is preparing one now that I will hopefully do next year for him,' …
Lekberg found her medium when she learned to weld. "'The old struggle with plaster and coat hangers ended when I began to weld steel,' she said, referring to her early efforts to make sculpt…
How does it hold up? Hm; the Gen-Xers who discuss it here are mostly bemused. "I don't quite understand how young audiences would have seen Benjamin's stupefaction in the face of a future be…
There's a new museum of contemporary art, and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which now has fairs in London, New York, and Marrakesh. "Tunji Akintokun, an I.T. executive based in Lon…
Or, in other words, can it be a force in music that disrupts labels the way Netflix disrupted ... well, what exactly did Netflix disrupt? Movie rental stores. Meanwhile, Apple Music might ha…
Jordan Peele also won best director at the Indie Spirit Awards, but Lady Bird won best screenplay, and all of the actors who have been winning everything, well, won everything. Still ... cou…
Critic and scholar Hailey Bachrach on having, for instance, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing played by a woman: "We must think about these things beyond just the blanket assumption that an…
Generations of Broadway legends have played the role of Dolly, and Peters is (more than) up for it now: "When I took on the role, though, I just " I started from scratch. I read the script, …
One actor set up a forum to discuss West End job sharing ideas, and it had hundreds of members within days. Actor Caroline Sheen is for it. '"Eight shows a week for a year - it's a lot for a…
As Ensler was helping build a sanctuary for rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she discovered that she had stage 3/4 uterine cancer. After she turned that experience int…
Audible, the massive audiobook company that's owned by Amazon, just announced a "first round" of commissions for playwrights including Lauren Gunderson and Leah Winkler. But the plays won't …
Jordan Roth, whose Jujamcyn Theatres owns five of Broadway's 41 theatres, and "who has had a longtime interest in performing and has dabbled in video production previously, conceived of this…
Artists Repertory Theatre had plans to sell half of its building, including one of its theatres, to a development group that was going to turn the pricey Portland real estate into a 20-story…
How did a few interviews about the play turn into a book? The authors: "We kept getting so much amazing stuff. Every single person we talked to would tell us the kind of story you tell about…
Well, that's one way to be more Elizabethan: "Drunk Shakespeare is akin to watching a live version of Comedy Central's Drunk History, only the audience is drinking along with the cast in rea…
Play readings are, frankly, disappointing. "They're like walking by a food truck and hearing your stomach rumble, but just when you get your wallet out the truck drives off. ... It's just pe…
The fairies in the latest production of Midsummer Night's Dream speak Te Reo, one of New Zealand's official languages, for about 20 percent of the production. "Online reviews left about the …
Community theatre, of course. Studi: "It was kind of a combination of the aftereffect of Vietnam in a way, in that " I won't say I was addicted or a junkie of adrenaline " but, you know, I t…
The actor, who played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton with the original cast, is now one of the stars of Spike Lee's revamped She's Gotta Have It, now a series on Netflix. Ramos - who's doi…
Oops, the restaurant critic sent to review the on-stage edibles got distracted by the show, Network (an adaptation of the '70s movie): The food "barely registers. It's something dark on a pl…
For years, Artists Repertory Theatre shepherded its building in what was historically a gritty location, through remodels and hosting a number of other cultural offices and eventually to a n…
Playwright Ayad Akhtar: "I am not hopeful about where we are as a nation " as a species (if I can be so presumptuous). I'm not hopeful, because I am increasingly of the mind that even my hop…