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With misinformation and disinformation (here's the difference) flourishing unchecked online, being able to discern fact from fiction is especially crucial. We witnessed the fatal violence an…
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher " and hailed by many readers " as a translation of the Therigatha…
As per fresh stats from the British Film Institute, film and TV spend on Brit shores was £2.84B for the year, down a surprisingly slim 21% on the year before. Film bore the brunt of that …
"Bronze age graves, Neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the finds unearthed by archaeologists w…
Whether or not onscreen theater feels like theater may depend on whether it offers a feeling of liveness, with all the potential for error and surprise and invention and anything-could-go-wr…
"In [writers'] rooms all over the internet, hospital dramas, first-responder shows, situation comedies and courtroom procedurals were having similar debates. To ignore the events of the spri…
The vast majority, 96%, were discovered by metal detecting. Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and Hampshire were identified as hotspots for treasure with more than 80 pieces found in each county …
A look at how small groups of (properly tested and quarantined) dancers and choreographers got together (at long last!) to make work this past summer at two centers of dance in the Hudson Ri…
"History is full of civilizations that have collapsed, followed by people who have had other ways of living," Kirkpatrick Sale said. "My optimism is based on the certainty that civilization …
Are we really just pleasure-seeking audiences looking for that instant hit of media indulgence? As the effects of lockdown and zoom fatigue have exposed, society seems to be increasingly exp…
"I think we're witnessing, in real time, society grappling with the emergence of social media as a very powerful force. Experts who have been studying this stuff have been warning for months…
"Was there a connection between the sudden relevance of medieval anecdotes and an apparent increase in blackletter fonts on leftist social media? If plague humor was in, so too were ornate, …
Looking for a Director of Finance excited to work with a Nonprofit Organization
It was with no small amount of happiness that Center Theatre Group this week said it had generated more than $700,000 through a single fundraising event: a boisterous Zoom party featuring an…
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Sales, and Patron Services, the Advertising and Sales Manager is responsible for managing media placement, budget, content, and production...
The reality is that many questions surround composer pay. Some people wonder why they're not being paid more. Some people are surprised by the amounts they have been paid. Some people worry …
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Sales, and Patron Services, the Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Manager works collaboratively within the Advancement team...
In today's Wall Street Journal I pay tribute to Hal Holbrook. Here's an excerpt.
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Hal Holbrook, who died on Jan. 23 at age 95"his death was announced this week"spent mo…
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain, notebook entry, January or February 1894,Â
Continue reading Almanac: Mark Twain on honesty at About Last Night.
"Are we going to come out of this moment with a new model or new models? No. But what if we were in a constant state of evolving our model? What if we didn't do what we just did … and get …
"The pandemic closed the city on March 13, the eve of the opening of Miami New Drama's first musical. To keep the 5-year-old company going, [artistic director Michel] Hausmann … commission…
A scene from the film version of Somerset Maugham's "The Alien Corn," directed by Harold French, adapted for the screen by R.C. Sherriff, introduced by Maugham. The film is one of four secti…
"'If I thought you had in you the makings of an artist I shouldn't hesitate to beseech you to give up everything for art's sake. Art is the only thing that matters. In comparison with art, w…
"In my research, it became clear how the techniques used in theatre are used in politics, which further cemented my opinion that theatre artists have the capacity to deeply understand the po…
Actress Seyi Omooba had been engaged to play Celie in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel in Leicester, England in 2019 " but she was let go when a 2014 Facebook post of hers cont…
