"I wish I could have told him that his outburst about our outbursts (if gasps and laughs are outbursts) betrayed the DNA of theater itself. Unless he plans on buying out venues to watch play…
More than 9,000 full-time school librarian positions were eliminated from 2009-2016, a 15% reduction, with teachers and their assistants having to add librarians' former duties to their work…
A special package on the great African-American playwright as she approaches her 88th birthday (Sept. 13), including a Q&A with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a feature on the undergraduate pla…
"These kinds of investigations historically have raised more questions than they have answered, leaving victims and the public in the dark about what behavior was documented in the inquiry, …
Additionally, "several … backstage employees described for the AP how they strove to shield young women from the star as administrators looked the other way." (These include staffers at Lo…
The flames aren't raging only in Brazil: there have been major wildfires in lowland Bolivia for weeks, and they have damaged and destroyed ancient paintings that date back as for as 1500 BC …
"The successful candidate will be tasked with overseeing the museum's vast collection of indigenous American artifacts, including the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of more than 116 ob…
According to the government's spending review for 2020-21, "the budget of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will increase by 4.1% in real terms to £1.6bn, after …
As editor at Universal Press Syndicate, beginning in 1974, "he signed up Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac and For Better or For Worse. He discovered The Boondocks and Cathy. He guided Doones…
"Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, as an experienced feature scribe who broke out with 2009's The Proposal, was to be paid a significantly higher fee than [Adele] Lim, a veteran TV writer who never…
Tristram Hunt: "I think that the pre-history of fossil fuel companies in muddying the science about climate change, in lobbying, in their political acts, have been pretty criminal and they w…
Higher education is in the middle of multiple, massive disruptions"and it isn't clear that the leaders of the sector grasp the magnitude of the waves of change breaking on their ivy-covered …
In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I call for shorter, better biographies. The immediate occasion is the publication of Con Chapman's Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music o…
"For moviegoers to get the idea of real combat, you'd have to shoot at them every so often from either side of the screen." Samuel Fuller, A Third Face
"A recent study of priorities among young people found that achieving one's career passion ranks highest of all " more than making money or getting married. Finding a fulfilling job is almos…
Chris Jones recounts what happened at a recent Broadway performance of Harold Pinter's Betrayal when a cell phone went off, repeatedly, and seemed to make Tom Hiddleston cry without breaking…
The award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel as well as historians and town planners wrote an open letter to Le Monde saying the €600m (£540m) renovation plan to create a glass st…
The book cover design world, it turns out, has something of an all-star squad of stock and archival image that show up on book covers time and time again. James Morrison, an editor, designer…
Alicia Rodis was struck by how much more care went into staging physical interactions that were violent or dangerous than into staging those that were sexual. For a fight scene, choreographe…
"The unknown becomes known, the outcasts come inside, the strange becomes ordinary. You can see changes to the ideas about whose rights matter and what is reasonable and who should decide, i…
"Given the thematic unity of this year's prize " from long- to shortlist, there has been an emphasis on experimentation and engagement with the present day " it's not immediately obvious whe…
"I have a form of Parkinsonism that doesn't respond to standard Parkinson's meds, so there's no treatment for what I have. It's called P.S.P."Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. I just have to s…
His weekly satire program, The Night Night Show, has been on television for not quite 18 months, and already Brian Tseng has become a big star. Why? Likely because he'll talk and joke openly…
Last year Dr. Monica Gagliano published a heady and meandering memoir about the conversations with plants that inspired her peer-reviewed work, titled "Thus Spoke the Plant." She believes, l…
Women who speak publicly and challenge authority have long been dismissed as "shrill" or "grating." What's less widely understood is how the design of the technology that transmits human voi…