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In today's Wall Street Journal I write about the best theater of 2019: On Broadway and across America, it's the same old story: Large-scale musicals are in a long-term slump. I saw onl…
From 2010: Apropos of the front cover of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, James Breig, a reader of this blog, writes with a query: "Impertinent question: Is the cover photo reversed (Arms…
"I saw all of my mother's people, her sisters and brothers and their children that are left, that live here, crowding into the living room around Aunt Inez and her boys…and I thought of al…
Giuseppe Verdi's last two operas, the Shakespearean diptych of Otello and Falstaff, together constitute my favorite case study in what happens when a play is made to stand up and sing. Both …
About 15,000 new archaeological sites have been discovered over the past two decades. But where are they? The truth is that most have been physically removed. Are we to believe, therefore, t…
"I am deeply grateful for the work in Potter and indeed Downton, but it wasn't what you'd call satisfying. I didn't really feel I was acting in those things." " The Guardian
Ailey formed his company, in part, to give people of color a place to dance, Jamar Roberts said. It was also a place for him to to tell their stories. Mr. Roberts wants to continue that, but…
Her ascent, and the rediscovery of some of the last century's great Italian female writers, has encouraged a new wave of women and shaken the country's literary establishment. Women writers …
"This can't just be about me sounding cool or looking awesome. It has to be in service of something larger. You want to actually open a conversation and activate people's imaginations, and a…
Would Prince have agreed to the release of this material in this form? Does the potential public good, and the contribution to the historical record, outweigh whatever uncertainties Prince m…
"One hundred and fifty years is a long time. But I've always said it's never too late. So it's good that they finally have thought about it. And at least if you're the first, there has to be…
Unlike mainstream talk therapies, Dance Movement Therapy uses the entire body to approach the client primarily on a non-verbal and creative level. The body in motion is both the medium and t…
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Killing Eve received nominations this chilly L.A. morning, as did the apparent final season of Amazon's Emmy-winning Fleabag and the first se…
It was a crowning moment for Netflix, and not just for the jeweled one on Queen Elizabeth's head. The streaming service, which dominated the Globe nominations overall, edged out HBO to win t…
For the second year, the performance opened with long applause for Italy's president, Sergio Mattarella, sitting in the royal box with four government ministers. As last year, the Italian go…
And Greta Gerwig's new movie version of it makes an attempt to reflect that. "We may these days … be surrounded by books containing extraordinary girls " Lyra, Hermione, Katniss " but it i…
It's a candy Venice. A Venice of candy and gingerbread, royal icing ("basically like glue") and buttercream for decoration. And when roofs collapse? The teams soldier, or solder (with butter…
Lisa Taddeo thinks her success is partially luck, and partially that she really digs into the nuances of women's desire, and their relationships with men, at least before the Weinstein scand…
Let's go deep: "You are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only per…
Architecture critic Rowan Moore is not thrilled with the thoughtless, crass commercialism filling Trafalgar Square. "It is not the presence of the market, precisely, that's the problem, so m…
Pen Parentis has lasted for more than a decade in a literary world that is decidedly unfriendly to working parents. "'The way you hear it is in the people who don't have kids and when you sa…
And not just any blog is closing, but Feministing, one of the only remaining feminist blogs from the heyday of the 2000s. One of the site's former editors says, "It was unclear how we could …
That's not about radical parents or radical kids " it's about changing theatre at its roots to reflect the reality of working parents in the industry. Not surprisingly, parents have some ide…
Destouches defended the French writer, and their anti-Semitic and intensely pro-Nazi stance, for decades. "'She followed him into the depths of hell with a love, an admiration and an affecti…
Justin Chang is prepared for the inevitable backlash over some of the choices the LAFCA made. Prepared, but not pleased: "I've always been struck by the recurring phenomenon of LAFCA and oth…
