"The result is a worldwide swarm of approaches that have profoundly opened up the possibilities of the form, most likely for good. The word 'theatre' stands at the starting post, all but out…
Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the test of centuries, led also to results that were rap…
In the last seven months, there has been a groundswell of support for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits that are focused on specifically and directly helping the Black community. People …
"The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet"they'd foster communities of people, just like on social networks," Steven Lomazow, a seventy-three-year-old New Jersey neuro…
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late March 2020. Her moving 'letter from your future' coincided with…
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply to each member country for a separate short-term work permit, with all the emb…
From 2006: When I was young, everybody I knew watched The Andy Griffith Show. Today there are no TV shows that "everybody" watches, and no movies that everyone has seen. Indeed, the Ameri…
February makes a bridge, and March breaks it. George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum" Continue reading Almanac: George Herbert on February and March at About Last Night.
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. " Aaron Dworkin
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 " and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the equivalent of membership in the company's Hall of Fame, with a window on…
Not for nothing " for a new museum of contemporary art. But … really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a member of a campaign to save the mural called Keep…
"I almost feel like you should know the notable recordings of a work like this," Benjamin Grosvenor said of the sonata in a recent interview. "More than anything, it helps you understand wha…
"Think of it like traffic. There's the language road, there's the music road, there's the seeing road, there's the images road. Language is like a superhighway; it makes the other things wai…
"When different narrators take on chapters devoted to different characters' points of view, the listener's engagement with the book can be heightened. On the other hand, when narrators join …
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come " but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially when we can always rewatch Nadiya Hussain's GBBO flavors making…
Artists need studios, and usually studios with light … and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners. The steepled Protestant churches …
Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It's obvious whom to blame: politicians are guilty to varying degre…
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to sit at home by yourself and deal with yourself and just yo…
Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for the excitement of discovering an …
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after in the ind…
Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans were supposed to be especially …
There's one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but the pay-as-you-wish donation mo…
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington, Virginia. The passion of …
"The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling of their work and as producers." " Los Angeles …
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn't get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there's no indication of it in his correspondence aro…