Yes, that Disney spectacle was indeed The Lion King, and A Strange Loop's Michael R. Jackson spent years working as an usher for the runaway hit. He says, "Being an usher was pretty brutal, …
Yes, writing can be lonely " but producing a published book is a community affair. " The Guardian (UK)
The "lunchtime battle of wits" at the Algonquin Hotel prepared a generation of socially conscious writers (especially the most famous of them all, Dorothy Parker) to take on the forces of is…
San Diego Comic Con, like the moon walk, turns 50 this year. And, wow, things have changed. "More than 130,000 people are expected to attend this year; they're here for comics, yes, but also…
Golub was concertmaster at the group's founding in 1972, and he shaped the sound and direction of the group through choosing the musicians, until he retired from Music of the Baroque in 2006…
One of the artists wrote to Hyperallergic, "As a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, it terrifies me that my work is currently part of a platform that is now strongly associated with Kanders' t…
The deal, which includes harassment protection and a ban on private, in-room auditions, also "recognizes performance capture as covered work and includes coverage of dubbing, which applies t…
"All I managed to say was: 'It's over.' … There will never again be a Fidelio like this." " Joe Horowitz
Wyman wandered New York & Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s "to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers." Her work for Life,…
"Morris plays delicious games with Satie's variegated material." " Deborah Jowitt
Sure, there are a lot of mothers (or, as The Guardian has it, mums) in opera, but Rosa Mamai in L'arlesiana has a command and power that's all too rare. " The Guardian (UK)
A lone loan of Jerome for Leonardo's 500th anniversary. " Lee Rosenbaum
Pelli, born in Argentina, was the former dean of Yale's architecture school. He designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger called him "an architect…
Yes, that's pretty damned alarming for anyone who knows history. "Many cultural leaders in the state Baden-Württemberg, of which Stuttgart is the capital, saw the inquiry about artists' nat…
It's the same one that makes Kendrick Lamar's soundtrack for Black Panther less than ideal, but it's even more glaring for a film inspired by the geography and culture of Kenya and other Eas…
The Spanishisms, or Spanish words, or words that are a mix, are making Catalan purists and separatists angry. Ironically, "there are also a few English words thrown into the song but, amid t…
Last year, an economics professor suggested killing off the public library and replacing it with Amazon. The backlash was swift " and it's ongoing. Why? Libraries are free, providing a refug…
Lulu Wang's family didn't want to tell its matriarch that she was dying of cancer " and the resulting efforts to get everyone to say their goodbyes, without letting her in on the reason, tur…
Kathryn Morgan had to leave City Ballet in the fall of 2012 after an autoimmune disease screwed up everything from her hair to her balance, starting a couple of years earlier. "What Morgan i…
The African American and Black musicians who make up the Re-Collective Orchestra recorded a chamber-music version of Black Panther's "All the Stars Are Open." Hans Zimmer heard it, and then …
Shafak wants the world to pay attention to what Erdogan has been doing since the failed 2016 coup: "Much has been said about the anti-liberal nature of authoritarian populism, but relatively…
Into Harry Potter houses, that is. Way to go, Philadelphia. " Philly Voice
Did the voters love the final season of Game of Thrones more than mere mortals did? And how many nominations can the second season of Fleabag get when the first season got exactly zero? " Lo…
In short, Sarah Moss says, "I think it's called the Great American Novel." Zing! " The Guardian (UK)
When a team decided to adapt Sue Monk Kidd's 2002 book The Secret Life of Bees into a 2019 musical, and the only African American person on the production team was playwright Lynn Nottage, w…