A near-weekly ritual has embedded itself in the news cycle since the beginning of social distancing measures. Following each weekend, photos of beachgoers crowded together on the shore will …
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread COVID-19 across the globe, large scale gatherings across the world face postponement or outright cancellation. But this is hardly the first time,…
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has had a whirlwind last few years since her play Pipeline premiered in 2017. In that span of time, she's managed to begin her tenure as a Residency 5 playwrig…
Irish author James Joyce unfairly gets a bad rap for being "too difficult" to read. His first draft of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was rejected with a note from the editor saying…
Over the course of its 20-year run, Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants has been blamed for everything from causing ADD to promoting violence. Despite these criticisms, the show has su…
Despite being one of the last books Roald Dahl ever wrote, Matilda has remained one of the British author's highest-selling works. Even so, The Guardian notes a significant jump in Matilda's…
In 2013, NBC made a splash in event television by airing The Sound of Music Live!, attracting over 18 million viewers to a live telecast of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical. Ever si…
Theatre and religion have been intertwined since the beginning " the very, very beginning. One of the earliest forms of theatre developed in Ancient Athens with public festivals of music, po…
In 2017, the American Psychological Association acknowledged the existence of a new psychological disorder: eco-anxiety. The disease can cause a spectrum of despair in response to the effect…
With the holiday season quickly approaching, so do the stresses that accompany the tricky social etiquette around visiting and hosting loved ones. You might do your best planning and prepara…