Elsewhere, we carp, battle and grind one another down for bragging rights and total triumph. Sports culture and champion-making has seeped into nearly every aspect of life. It's all just a l…
Junior publicists work directly under Center Theatre Group's Head of Publicity and closely with playwrights, directors, actors as well as other theatre artists, producers and arts administra…
The more popular the book, the more pervasive the SlideShare piracy. Searches for the top five fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times bestseller list (which includes authors rang…
In Germany, the home of modern board-gaming, the industry has grown by over 40% in the past five years; the four-day SPIEL trade fair this year saw 1,500 new board and card game releases, wi…
Over the past two or three decades, the historical study of emotions has developed a rich set of tools with which to chart the ways that emotions have changed over time. Emotions such as ang…
On stages and film/video sets alike, the practitioners of this new profession help actors feel secure physically and emotionally " which, naturally, help the actors do their jobs better. Wha…
The decline was not unexpected, as sales in 2018 were driven by strong performances of a plethora of political books and the blockbuster success of Michelle Obama's Becoming, which was the t…
"Decades before becoming New York's Pied Piper for nonobjective art, he had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image." " Hyperallergic
At age 28, Dudamel started his appointment as the L.A. Phil's music director in 2009, his original five-year term quickly extended through the 2018-19 season and later through mid-2022. With…
"The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Tuesday that it has been promised pivotal gifts totaling $7.25 million that officials say will allow the beleaguered organization to pay its outst…
When the choreographer and her company debuted Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", audiences who'd never seen anything like it did …
"Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, would have made the Top 10 list and might have topped it, the library notes, but for the fact that 'influential New York Public Library children's li…
"One after another, Star Wars movies have flopped in China, defying efforts to bring one of the most successful franchises in history into a market that has printed money for the heroes, mon…
"Unlike Hollywood, where actors and filmmakers have [frequently] spoken out against governments, A-listers in Bollywood " the world's second-best paying film industry " have largely remained…
After having worked as a publicist for some of rock's all-time greats, she discovered two of the English comedy troupe's LPs and began encouraging her contacts at FM radio stations to play t…
Dan Lewis: "My vision is to ensure opportunities to learn, perform and create music are available to all young people. Ideally, this would be happening in every school, but that isn't the ca…
"As he lay bleeding on his kitchen floor in Bedford, the snow blower that lopped off the tips of three of his fingers still sputtering outside, the same question kept rattling around in Murr…
There's always been a divide between what the critical culture celebrates and what audience members actually want to see. "This three-and-a-half-hour Turkish film about the struggle between …
"In fact, while his novels and stories may have won him global renown, journalism was his first calling. Not only was it foundational to his development as a writer, but it also remained int…
Pop-star holograms are exploding out of a chemical reaction between three elements that have been influencing human decision-making for thousands of years: supply, demand, and survival insti…
"Some community leaders … wonder why a city with such a fierce appetite for new parks, public spaces, museums and theaters has not invested in a major facility that acknowledges their sign…
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening …
Imogene Coca and James Starbuck perform their comedy version of the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty on TV in 1951. This performance was originally telecast live as part…
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." Sholem Asch, The Nazarene
The New Year seems to be a good time to try to set down some of my basic thoughts about the need for and the path to effective community engagement. As often happens on this blog, this is a …