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"It was not immediately clear how many shows would be eligible for consideration. Twenty plays and musicals opened during the abbreviated 2019-20 season, but a few might be deemed ineligible…
On the day in March when the Bay Area got lockdown orders, Berkeley Repertory Theatre called the cast of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which was still in rehe…
Directors UK (the Brit equivalent of the Directors Guild) has published Intimacy in the Time of COVID-19, a new set of guidelines for the planning, staging and recording of sex scenes, start…
As one of the authors of UCLA's annual Hollywood Diversity Report put it, "There are almost no people of color in the film industry who have the power to say, 'This movie is getting made and…
Researchers at the University of Bristol used 25 professional singers of various genres as subjects, having them speak and sing at various levels, and found that singing at a conversational …
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the PBS Great Performances telecast of Bartlett Sher's 2015 Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, which airs tonight and will subseq…
"Ernest Thesiger: Expert Embroiderer," a 1944 British Pathé newsreel featurette. A noted English stage and screen actor, Thesiger is best remembered for his appearances in Bride of Frank…
"Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Continue reading Almanac: Henry Adams on friendship a…
As New York City's major museums prepare to reopen, the experience of the the first major U.S. art museum out of the re-starting gate " the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which intrepidly inv…
Now that work is underway for the second season of "All Rise," which stars Simone Missick as an idealistic Los Angeles judge, five writers from the original staff of seven are gone. Among th…
So far, donors have been generous. Nearly 87 percent of those who bought tables for the canceled gala donated the sums to the company. Before scrapping their plans, the company had budgeted …
A series of collected strips, in a new English translation, about the funny little Gaul and his fellows resisting the Romans is now being released in the U.S. That's bringing new attention t…
The design of Dreamstage simulates a traditional live event with virtual ticket offices, an entrance for the audience, artistic entrance, and a post-performance lounge. Ticket proceeds will …
It's not news that the Khomeinite doctrines that drive the Islamic Republic's authorities are dead set against dance, music, and any other way that women might display themselves to the publ…
These controversies hollowed out Newsweek's staff and its brand. Its clickbait-heavy approach, aimed at gaming search engines, has declined since it was spun off from parent company IBT Medi…
One partial solution to the decline of media that often gets ignored"yet has the potential to both alleviate the deepening crisis and also help restore public trust in the media as a whole"i…
That setup also has a brutal punch line"one that left Joseph Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He's still not sure if he'll be able to renew his auto…
How does framing stories for this audience shape how public radio stations tell stories? At every stage of story production"from the reporter's "pitch" to their editor, through the process o…
"Admittedly, preschoolers, Zoom and opera don't immediately sound like the makings of a successful project, but each installment I watched of Opera Starts With Oh! " helmed by director, chor…
People don't gather 'surplus'. Instead, they collect cars, harvest grain or store canned foods. In reality, accumulation is practised and thought about in relation to the specificity of the …
Mycologist? That's mushroom maven to you and me. The late composer was fascinated by the fungi throughout his life, often foraging for them and at one point making money selling his finds to…
Recent studies from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have confirmed that computer facial recognition is less accurate at match…
"Earlier this week, leading German epidemiologists from the prestigious Clinic Charité published a revised study suggesting that the opera houses and concert halls should allow every seat i…
"The theaters are mostly small, and it remains unclear how calls for change in the industry will (or won't) affect life at larger institutions, many of which have been programmatically and f…
"In such an expansive catalog, encompassing films from more than 40 countries, the relative absence of African-American filmmakers stands out. There are, for example, more directors in the C…
