Mohammed Rasoulof won the Berlin Film Festival's highest honor for his film There Is No Evil, which is about the death penalty in Iran " and for which he was imprisoned and banned for life f…
Why Leicester Square for the statues commemorating various decades of film (including Mary Poppins, Gene Kelly, and Paddington Bear)? "Leicester Square was first home to a cinema in 1930, wi…
The primary responsibilities of the faculty are to teach and to develop the curriculum.
"You can have a bad experience whether flying with it in your hand or freighting. I've seen a forklift go right through a guitar case before. Airlines should be as explicit as possible on th…
According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, 25 percent of part-time faculty nationally rely on public assistance programs. In 1969, 78 percent of instructional staff at US institutions of hig…
Trump hasn't seen the play, according to playwright Phelim McAleer, but praised its concept: a script based entirely on congressional testimony and the text messages between former FBI agent…
Many of these videos fall into what Carlson calls "infotainment," where the goal isn't to teach, but to pass on information, even if it doesn't lead to understanding. "They're not saying, 'H…
Theaters in China, the world's second largest box office market behind the U.S. and Canada, have almost entirely shut down. So have theme parks and film shoots. Travel bans meant to curb the…
"The shifts across the network era, magnified in the early 1980s, help us to see how variable the category of soap opera, and perhaps the ordering concept of genre itself, may be." What's mo…
Bedoya describes the culture of the city as "the embodiment of forms of knowledge and wisdom people have gained through their different lived experiences." Another way he expresses this idea…
The African nation is getting prosperous enough to begin (slowly) offering state funding to the performing arts. One beneficiary of this development is Mophato Dance Theatre, which combines …
Classical music is a rare remaining area where citizens of countries that are at loggerheads (or worse) with one another can interact in a productive manner. "The most important aspect we're…
"There is no western counterpart to Umm Kulthum, no artist as respected and beloved as she is in the Arab world." She sang everything from the most complex classical Arabic music to national…
"I finally realized it felt more creative to be doing what I was doing in early music because there was so much that we hadn't figured out; there was so much that was not in the scores. And …
It allows students to design and test ideas in ways not possible in traditional classes. The school decided to dip its toe into the VR world, then discovered its classes quickly filled up. "…
"One of the most mysterious aspects of Poe's legacy is his untimely death at the age of 40 after being found 'delirious' and in 'great distress' on the streets of Baltimore. The author was i…
Under the plan, which was approved this week by the boards of both organizations, the library " the nation's fifth largest " will become the parent institute of the historical society. The s…
"When Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's Voices dropped earlier this month, it was poised to become an instant hit. The anthology, a mix of recipes and essays …
"What does make a theatre feel like home? Negotiating mobile phones, sweet wrappers and chatty Kathys is a well-documented headache for theatre staff and spectators alike. The academic Kirst…
"By 1515, after Pope Julius II famously commissioned Michelangelo to repaint the chapel's ceiling (1508"1515), the chapel had become decidedly top-heavy in its decoration. Then-Pope Leo X (b…
By now the documentary theatre piece about the murder of Matthew Shepard has been performed thousands of times by professionals, amateurs, and students; an estimated 10 million people have s…
Leigh Fondakowski: "When we arrived in Denver, the play was not yet finished. It had only two acts then. … Moments were shifting, and the order of scenes kept changing all through previews…
Charlotte Vanweersch alleges that the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds hadn't taught her how to properly lift a partner as heavy as the one she was assigned for a "throwing and…
Three weeks ago, due to the coronavirus epidemic, the orchestra cancelled three concert dates in China that were part of a planned eight-concert tour of East Asia March 3-12. Now the orchest…
Woman with Eyes Closed, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia for its O20 festival this September, has a plot inspired by the 2012 theft, from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, of seven paintings now …