Especially during fringe festivals, playwrights are often performers, and because of the pressure of budget and time, they're exploring their own experiences and pain. "Rawness can make for …
Tropes actually help us all make sense of the world (so writers, calm down; even trying to go against tropes is a trope of its own). Take a famous narrative of the late 1990s and early 2000s…
Who profits when a 14-year-old Black teenager creates a dance and shares it " and it goes viral? Not she."TikTok, one of the biggest video apps in the world, has become synonymous with dance…
Cullinan was hired as a typist at The New Yorker when she was 22, but soon the magazine started publishing her stories as well. "Ms. Cullinan helped redefine Irish-American literature, veeri…
Dear United States, this isn't new " but it is alarming. "For centuries, autocrats, authoritarians, and dictators have held a fascination with using architecture as a political tool to glori…
Jordan Casteel paints portraits " huge portraits. And that means something to her subjects. "'I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,' said…
Woodard invites Academy Award nominees from past and present " and, she says, "those who, in a perfect world, should have been." She also says the Oscars don't have an impact on good acting.…
Yikes: "A picture shared on social media showed 'BCC wankers' scrawled across the artwork, which shows a young girl firing a slingshot filled with flowers." " The Guardian (UK)
Will Parasite's best picture win goose more international fare from the big studios " as opposed simply to Netflix " or will it only help both Bong Joon-ho and then other films that seem, in…
Cohen was a veteran stage and screen actor who found extra fame late in life as Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon)'s housekeeper and nanny on Sex and the City (and both movies). "On Broadway, sh…
Massey claims the separation of ways was a mutual decision and adds that "the job was not what he expected when he came to Louisville a year ago from Florida, where he had been the presid…
And the Writers Guild is ready to crack down on their wayward members. The WGA president wrote, "'For any writers breaking the rules there must and will be accountability.' He added: 'We kno…
"The list is full of classics, of course, but it's also got a few refreshing surprises in there." " LitHub
Nope. Take a look at this Gulliver's Travels (yes, Gulliver's Travels) fanfic. "In the 18th century, as now, fan fiction was usually more explicitly sexual than its source material." Oh. " T…
Hotchner was "a novelist, playwright, biographer, literary bon vivant and philanthropist whose life was shaped and colored by close friendships with two extraordinarily gifted and well-known…
A billion dollar industry dependent on one factory in California? That's physical manufacturing, so perhaps not. The factory, where 75 percent of the world's blank lacquers were made, burned…
After massive fallout from accusations of racism and pandering to a small (possibly racist) publisher, Nora Roberts weighing in on the homophobia of the organization, Twitter-led discoveries…
Casei "in the 1960s and '70s could be reliably heard as Suzuki, Maddalena, Lola and other bread-and-butter mezzo-soprano characters at the Metropolitan Opera before transforming hersel…
They found no cash, but there was alcohol. "Front and back windows at Gay's the Word, which became the UK's first gay bookshop when it was opened in 1979 and which featured in the filmÂ�…
It's not clear who sprayed the irritant, or what it was, exactly. "Two people were treated at the scene for breathing difficulties following the 4:15 p.m. incident at the Broadhurst Theater …
Remington famously hadn't read the books when she created the covers, leading to missteps including lions on the original cover. "While working as a freelance illustrator, she also did whate…
When journalists tried to pigeonhole her as a "new hot blonde" on the scene, well, Margot Robbie took control. "Robbie has refigured the terms of her agreement with the media. She's done it …
The thing about Parasite is that even before it became the first non-English language film to win a Best Picture statue, it "had already earned all the accomplishments that really matter; it…
Brandon Taylor always felt that he had to choose between science and writing. "Throughout his undergraduate years at Auburn University at Montgomery and graduate school in Wisconsin … scie…
It's not just politicians, of course, in our age of surveillance and social media. "Here is someone who " by concealing their identity " can reveal the complete and shocking truth. Many anon…