Roberts-Joseph was an icon in the Louisiana capital city, and she devoted her life and work to historical memory " and making Juneteenth a national holiday. Then there was "the Odell S. Will…
Hmmm: "Every era in Hollywood has a symbolic epicenter, a place that sums up everything, especially power and sometimes absurdity." Apparently, that's now Netflix. "An 80-foot by 12-foot vid…
Yeah, doing work "for the exposure" and vague promises of pay isn't really great. "Some dancers were going for that because it was a good opportunity and gives you more of a profile and help…
And are they OK for the brain? Some studies show that people retain information from a printed page much more than from an audiobook. "it might be that the particular cadences and timbre of …
Theatre criticism, like every other kind of critique in the age of the internet, appears to be booming, but that's not really true. "How is the average theatregoer to sort quality from digit…
A contingent of science fiction writers " that is, novelists, to be clear " are being hired by companies to predict the future. Yes, really. "Mega consulting firm Price Waterhouse Cooper pub…
That's the idea of the search, truly. Historian Geoff Marsh "concluded from cross-referencing various tax and leasehold documents of the time … that the playwright " then in his early 30s …
Sure, Twitter has issues. And then it has this: "At 58, [Karita] Mattila, who is currently onstage here at the Aix Festival in Weill and Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,"…
In her new bookstore in Chicago " the only one owned by a Black woman " owner and curator DL Mullen has more than books. "What might be most visually striking about the space is the art itse…
Alfaro met a 13-year-old promising playwright in 1999, but she was in a program for felons: She had killed her mother, who had put a hit out on her father. Then he started re-reading Electra…
It COULD get fixed, but it probably won't. Why? Engagement. "As the AI improves, it will be able to more precisely predict who is interested in this content; thus, it's also less likely to r…
Ouch, why did you have to zing all of us who have ever been on vacation, NYT? " The New York Times
Cressida Cowell, laureate for children's literature and a writer whose fame has greatly benefitted from film and TV, says, "Books are a kind of transformative magic that offer magical things…
The kid who solved the mystery was simply obsessed " and lucky, thanks to a tweet, to find the right timeline. "'The entire time I was trying to figure out who painted it, I thought it was f…
The mystery lasted a long time, and criss-crossed the internet " partly because everyone wanted to buy a Bob Ross original. Good luck with that. (Also, come for the mystery, but stay for the…
Showrunner David E. Kelley had a plan, but he didn't share it with British filmmaker Andrea Arnold before shooting began … or finished. "There was a dramatic shift in late 2018 as the show…
The critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The way I look at it, there are people who just wanna see a show, and there are theatre people. There's some overlap between those two groups, bu…
Actually, he's an opera singer by training and design and only an Uber driver " in Durban, South Africa " by economic necessity. Still, though, the viral videos taken by a passenger were a w…
Between Madrid and Barcelona, there's now little but empty space where towns used to be " except for the 700-person town of Medinaceli, where "in August, [the town] becomes a stage for high …
Her work, much of which is being reissued, is still incredibly relevant. "A crucial idea in Murdoch's fiction is the reality of others, a material fact that we are confronted with daily but,…
Oh boy. This is going to end well. "'As an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job,' Johansson explaine…
Um … indeed. "The big question is whether Los Angeles can pull it together to approach its public urban spaces in ways that are more cohesive and more mindful of human scale " and perhaps …
Mastodon was meant to be a kinder, gentler, no-fascist Twitter. Then a right-wing social network moved to Mastodon. "It's a hard problem, playing off the deepest limitations of decentralized…
Howard Sherman says the time has come to figure this out: "So long as there are categories for best actor and actress (or best male and female actor), those who identify outside of the binar…
Storm King is big. Really, really big: "The art here is nestled amid 500 acres of verdant hills, exposed to the ever-shifting and unrelenting climate of New York's Hudson Valley." " The New …