90 stories from Studio 360
In Jon Robin Baitz's new play, Other Desert Cities, a novelist returns home to her prominent California Republican parents with the manuscript of a new book " a memoir filled with very dir…
We all complain about the 24-7 news cycle, but nobody actually does anything about it. Except maybe Studio 360's resident folksinger, Scott Blaszak.
Belarus, Europe's last totalitarian regime, has been in the news since December's controversial presidential election. In the protests that followed, members of the Belarus Free Theatre were…
The frontman for Antony and the Johnsons says everything changed for him when he discovered the Japanese modern dance, butoh. Hegarty talks about the butoh master, Kazuo Ohno, and describes …
"Green" is still the buzzword for new industry in America, and Studio 360's Scott Blaszak wants in. He's a green entrepreneur in an unusual field " contract killing " and as the world's fi…
Belarus is called the last dictatorship in Europe. The government censors the arts, so performance troupe Free Theatre Belarus performs secretly, in converted houses, to avoid arrest.Â�…
Can the arts actually improve health care? Kurt gets some answers from Jill Sonke, director of the Center for the Arts in Healthcare at the University of Florida. She explains how the arts h…
John Guare's new play A Free Man of Color is set in New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. In the play, a wealthy freed slave is the toast of the town, enjoying life to the fulles…
The reeducation of a New Orleans libertine: in this scene from the play, Dr. Toubib (Joseph Marcell) and Murmur (Mos) explain the societal repercussions of excessive foppery to Jacque Cornet…
The biggest release of this holiday movie season is in trouble: nobody remembered to shoot it. A satire by Scott Blaszak, performed by James Babson and Jake Newton.
This was the spectacle that colonized our dreams. He was the most famous American in the world " a showman and spin artist who parlayed a buffalo-hunting gig into an entertainment empire. Wi…
"Pee-wee's Playhouse" was a surreal, campy Saturday morning kids TV show starring an enthusiastically nerdy man-boy with an infectious chuckle. Twenty years later, Pee-wee Herman is back wit…
The music industry is ailing, but an ambitious guitarist has hatched a genius new revenue model for struggling musicians. It's not enough to give your songs away for free on the internet: yo…
According to crime statistics from 2009, Camden, New Jersey ranks as America's most dangerous city. Some residents are looking to the arts to try to turn the city around. With a new theater …
This month marks the 60th anniversary of "Sunset Boulevard," the definitive movie about the intoxicating, deadly allure of fame. That got us thinking " what would this story look like if it …
