Bernadine Evaristo, author of 2019's Booker prizewinning Girl, Woman, Other, is launching, or relaunching, a series of Black British novels that didn't quite make it into the British canon. …
Wesley Morris: "Alas, she would not be playing the most daring, out-there characters. And let's face it: the great parts were always headed to someone whiter anyway. The more audacious move …
That's merely one thing that's missing right now, of course, but it is missing, and Dublin isn't going to let people forget the joys of moving their bodies alongside so many others at dance …
Writer, studio musician at Sugar Hill Records, and singer, Bootee couldn't take the upbeat party aims of early hip-hop. So he wrote "The Message" about the serious, gritty life of his hometo…
And now there's a tug of war about the future of the internet " and the future of any kind of privacy. " Wired
Mark Swed thinks so: Bernstein "devoted four years to the musical. He wrote more music for it than for any other theater work. The show had a $900,000 sponsorship from Coca-Cola. It was bill…
A $2 million donation means that musicians and staff have salaries and health care through June, despite the fact that there's no revenue coming in from concerts. " Nine News (Denver)
Penman's best-selling, lengthy books about medieval England and Wales were stuffed with research " and drama. But "such was her commitment to the factual record that she kept a running listÃ…
The word for pandemic is absolutely Greek, but nearly everything else the Greeks discuss about COVID-19 is English " and a leading linguist is worried. "Far too many [English terms] are ente…
She died in what her team said was a "terrible accident" in Athens while celebrating the full moon. "SOPHIE was a trailblazer in almost every respect. The Scottish-born, L.A.-based producer …
Brian Lin: "At the start of the pandemic, I emailed friends, colleagues, and mentors, all POC, to ask two questions about their literary lives. What is a recurring situation that's destabili…
When Nawapan Kriangsak inherited the priceless art collection of her father, scholar and collector Douglas Latchford, she already had a plan in motion to return his art to Cambodia, from whe…
Mary-Kay Wilmers was one of LRB's co-founders in 1979, and after co-editing it since 1988 became sole editor in 1992. Two women will take over: "Wilmers will continue at the paper as consult…
Why did Jujamcyn switch from Ticketmaster to SeatGeek (more commonly a sports ticket app in the U.S.)? For one thing, SeatGeek is very commonly a contactless system, which now seems possible…
Cohan founded an outpost of Martha Graham's school in London in 1966, and, a couple of years later, The Place. That venture (including the London Contemporary Dance Group) "initially perform…
A survey of frequent theatregoers says that widespread vaccines are the only way most people will feel comfortable in the theatre " and, even with that, 94 percent of those surveyed said the…
Yes, it's partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it's so much more: "Averno [is] the setting of a…
The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don't have anything to fall back on. "In telephone interviews this week, four theater free…
Swinging the Dream, a 1939 musical that flopped after 13 performances despite (or because of?) having a cast of 150 and three bands. It's being revived, rewritten, and live-streamed during t…
He said that "the timeline hinged on the country reaching an effective level of herd immunity, which he defined as vaccinating from 70 percent to 85 percent of the population." In addition, …
The teen actors couldn't perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn't film because their school went virtual partway through the term. So voice recording and mixing, original m…
Hurray for the Save Our Stages money, but theatres need a lot more: "a new Federal Theatre Project (FTP), like the Depression-era government agency that directly employed artists to produce …
As with every other kind of theatre, Jewish theaters and playwrights, actors and tech people, had a lot to figure out. The Jewish Playwriting Contest completely reimagined what it was asking…
"Needless to say, 2020 didn't exactly go as planned." But actors, directors, playwrights, sound producers, lighting designers, and stage directors came through just as much as they possibly …
This isn't exactly a normal year for any playwright, and indeed, Jeremy O. Harris of the multiple-Tony-nominated Slave Play has earned little from his plays. But fashion collaborations and H…