And here's why: "Pulling Facebook ads in July, as they slash their ad budgets anyway, was for many a win-win of saved money and boosted image. But now? Given the response from civil rights l…
"Co-owners Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo acknowledged that Black customers and employees have felt unwelcome and disrespected, that poor training had led to racial profiling i…
Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Love & Basketball (don't @ us) and the also incredible, totally different Beyond the Lights, casually became the first Black woman to direct a superher…
Since the Covid-19 numbers are looking worse, not better (not by a long shot) in the US, Peter Gelb says that the Met has to push the envelope with new content, even if it mostly employs tho…
Thomas Kail, Hamilton director (both on stage and screen): "I remember it was important for me to have a moment at the end of the show where the music and lyrics are resolving that extended …
Protesters pulled down the status and dragged it to Inner Harbor, where they dumped it. "The Columbus statue was dragged down as people marched across the city Saturday demanding reallocatio…
So you caught the Hamilton addiction, but that's only one streaming performance … where are the Schuyler sisters, where are the soldier boys, where are the generals now? " The New York Tim…
Why? Money. Also, Tom Cruise had a chat with the minister. "We want the industry to bounce back and exempting small numbers of essential cast and crew from quarantine is part of our continue…
The "immersive" show had to be adjusted from a walk-in experience in Paris for Covid-19 safety in Toronto. " BBC
The actor's leg was amputated, and he was placed in a medically induced coma for weeks, in an effort to stop the virus. One review of Cordero's performance in A Bronx Tale: "The terrific Mr.…
There were LMM handwritten lyrics, a Daveed Diggs improv that added a lot to TJ's character, and oh so much more. " Vulture
That is, Netflix, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, and a series of small grants. "The fund will provide short-term relief to hundreds of theater workers and freelancers across the U.K., and par…
As Isaac Asimov's Foundation series gets shot around the virus in five different countries ("Our main stages are in Europe, in countries that are super safe at the moment," the executive pro…
Theatre continues, in some ways weird or alarming and in other ways perfectly creative, during the lockdowns, shutdowns, quarantines, and pandemic numbers spikes. " The New York Times
After months of waffling " and infuriating the arts sectors in the UK " the Tory government finally came through. One playwright: "If this package is as ambitious as it looks, then conversat…
Khan spent more than 60 years in the film industry. She "was a pioneer, one of the few women working behind the camera at a time when nearly all the technicians were men. She joined the indu…
Atlanta-based actor Stephanie Peyton: "We're all stuck with this whole COVID thing. And so we have nothing better to do than to be on our social media and see these new videos every day of B…
Well, it's an idea, anyway, and far " far " from the worst idea Boris Johnson has proposed. "The devil, though, is in the detail, a territory that Boris Johnson finds notoriously hard to nav…
Well, we can. Some of it. Sometimes, for different price points, from different streamers. Why not all? "Video recording a show is up to individual producers. And they have tended to pass on…
Reading Ibraham X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning or How to Be an Anti-Racist, or maybe cuddling up to Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors' When They Call You a Terrorist, may be great for…
No, not like the National Theatre Live performances " more like the 1950s style playhouses. "What I'd like to see is both more modest and more ambitious: a TV series that brings together lea…
The band names are a symbol " just a symbol, perhaps, but a strong one. However: "The question is not, "'hould bands whose names have ties to slavery change them?' The question is: Are we co…
It started as math, transitioned to both epidemiology and morality, and now holds sway among the public as well. But the idea of a "wave" wasn't inevitable. " Boston Review
TV execs hold a roundtable to discuss (tiny) ways some things might change, including centering stories written by and about African Americans. "You have to be very front and center about th…
The world of Law & Order was so attractive, the righteousness of its heroes so, well, right. Then college happened, and a lot of getting pulled over. "Too often, cop-centered stories por…