"Pop culture is one of the things that unites us as Americans and a lot of our pop culture is bad. But the fact that a whole bunch of people watch The Masked Singer every week or that everyb…
"It could be a dream or a nightmare. You're 84. What would it be like to have an artistic conversation with your 30-year-old self? [Rainer] is finding that out as she reconstructs, in collab…
When I was growing up, every major American metro area had both a polite press"the local dailies"and a rude one: the alt-weeklies. The alt-weeklies were funded by advertisers the family-frie…
"We bad-movie watchers have our own anticriteria, the sorts of badness we prefer. Some of us use the term "bad movies" to mean, simply, films that emerge from a supposedly lowbrow genre, or …
"Classical materials have been present in the identity construction and psychological experience of substantial groups of working-class Britons. Dissenting academies, Nonconformist Sunday sc…
Anne Midgette: "The music isn't the problem, it's the way we're offering it." Big, inflexible institutions take away the "oxygen and funds" from the smaller organizations, she argues, which …
Netflix can deliver filmmakers a prospective audience of 300 million people (and growing) with each release. This film distribution strategy is enabling rich, diverse stories to reach a mass…
"The United States has never been totally segregated, but this new world exposes everyone to everyone else in unprecedented intensity. Just like we sound like our friends, just like someone …
Yes, scofflaw diplomats have been a problem for ages (ask any New Yorker who's been clipped, or worse, by a UN delegate's car), but over the past few years, artworks have been disappearing f…
"[He] helped sculpt the rich and quietly splendorous sound of ECM Records, an influential label that has produced timeless jazz and contemporary classical recordings." " The New York Times
"I find this is a difficult institution to get air time in because we don't talk about the art first. Nobody ever talks to me. Barely. There's no place to actually say these things safely, s…
"As one editor who has been doing this type of work for 30 years and worked for nearly every major studio in Hollywood tells InsideHook, 'The studios, outside of the creative groups, are ful…
"I've suspected there is something life-affirming in Cookie Monster's unabashed love and joy for cultural stimuli " so pure and brash that if he could eat it all, he would. Cookie Monster wa…
"At a table reading of Live Bodies for Sale, a new docudrama about human trafficking in Northeast Ohio, playwright Christopher Johnston addresses the assembled cast and crew. 'Everybody in t…
"It was both a destination for tourists and it was also our hub, and so we wanted to keep it close to the theater district. And, too, we're in the business of creating community, and that's …
"To Oz, writing in Hebrew was like sculpting in solid rock and crusted sand at the same time. With one foot in the Hebrew of the Bible and the other in the mélange of linguistic influences …
"In a collaboration influenced by [music director Gianandrea] Noseda's role as principal guest conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra, the British symphony's record label " LSO Live " w…
"As one of the first initiatives under the leadership of new CEO James Daunt, Barnes & Noble has announced the shortlist for a new Book of the Year award. Books are nominated by B&N …
Best known in the U.S. for his years as assistant and associate conductor and conductor-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemp…
BBC arts editor Will Gompertz: "It has never been an easy task, but … what has become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it come…
The Wife of Willesden will be a monologue giving Smith's modern spin on The Wife of Bath's Tale from Canterbury Tales. The piece will premiere next year in her home neighborhood, the northwe…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
The forty-first episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for l…
"A Welcome to Britain" (later retitled "How to Behave in Britain"), a World War II training film "presented by the War Office to U.S. Troops arriving in the United Kingdom" and shown to U.S.…
"On another continent, 4,000 miles away, I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it…