McBride is also a realist, which is why he loves novels. "In the real world, villains too often succeed and heroes, too often die. … In novels you can move matters around … you get to sh…
The Oakland-based painter, who has a current solo show after a curator saw one of her paintings in Baltimore last year, says that she fought for recognition in New York when she was young. B…
Artemnesia Gentileschi was raped by a co-worker of her father's " what a surprise, right? They took the rapist to court, where she, an artist, was tortured to see if she was telling the trut…
Can the musical be redeemed? "Grafting sociological precision onto a musical that, from its start, traded facts for rhyme is tough. … The problem with treating the musical's stylized repre…
Its company director said that although the direct reason was a redevelopment scheme by the landlord, the store couldn't find another place in the West End. She said, "At present, an indepen…
Well, probably not, but that's about how much footage the Russian director shot of the DAU project, "a multiyear experiment in which hundreds of nonprofessional actors lived and worked in a …
"If you are not sure what you think about something, the most useful questions are these,' she says. 'Are you being kind? Are they being kind? That usually gives you the answer.'" " The Guar…
The director, calmly: "It's certainly been strange. … This synergy between what we're working on and what's been happening in the world, with the quarantine line getting closer." " The New…
At some point, academics and scholars but also fiction lovers have to face the facts: Kids or other descendants aren't going to want all of those lovely books. What happens to them? (And, uh…
King is generally regarded as a white nationalist; he has a decades-long history of xenophobic and racist comments which earned him censure from other Republicans. One of the comedians said …
Stressed by prestige TV on streaming networks? Hey, here's the solution: Just go with the networks. "It's a soft parade of uniformly telegenic people in clothes that always fit perfectly, ba…
Krone was a theatre producer and manager who joined with Douglas Turner Ward, an actor and playwright, and Robert Hooks, an actor and producer, to found the company in 1967. The company won …
While most of the César ceremony was predictable (and perhaps this was too), "the ceremony's most notable moment was only indirectly related to what was happening on its stage, as Portra…
When Iger, who suddenly stepped down as CEO of Disney last week, took over at the top 15 years ago, no one expected much from him " and they said so in the press. He was called "a loyal dron…
Perhaps you haven't yet watched the Gillian Anderson-fueled comedy (it's streaming in the US on Netflix), but you should know that there's a high school girl who is a love interest for Ander…
The San Francisco Ballet School is facing an unpleasant reality for its dancers " and (finally, say some) changing up the way it operates. "For the San Francisco Ballet to operate both a sch…
Sure, yes, we all love (reading about) Thomas Cromwell, but there's a lot more history out there. "A novel set centuries ago has a freedom denied to fiction that goes back only decades, to t…
MacArthur winner Yuval Sharon says it's time for opera to reckon with the past. "Sweet Land has been described by its creators as 'an opera that erases itself.' It achieves an effect not unl…
Though it might seem like common sense that, like "Happy Birthday," the iconic Woody Guthrie song "This Land Is Your Land" should come out of copyright anytime now, that's not what a recent …
Well, Tom Steyer did drop out after the South Carolina primaries, but it will be hard to forget what happened onstage the night before: "At a Friday night rally at historically black Allen U…
The whistleblower account Scene and Herd took down its 2018 posts accusing artist Subodh Gupta of sexual harassment, and the courts in Delhi allowed the creators to remain anonymous. " Hyper…
Obviously. If you had to pick a country for this, Ireland would be high up on the list."Though the centenarian tree's stubborn, and frankly rude, refusal to stop growing has caused some of t…
Mohammed Rasoulof won the Berlin Film Festival's highest honor for his film There Is No Evil, which is about the death penalty in Iran " and for which he was imprisoned and banned for life f…
Hall and her husband created two mainstays of daytime TV " the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Yes, many people laugh at them, "the dramas have attract…
Why Leicester Square for the statues commemorating various decades of film (including Mary Poppins, Gene Kelly, and Paddington Bear)? "Leicester Square was first home to a cinema in 1930, wi…