The 17-year-old who appears to have thrown the child " who was airlifted from the London museum in critical condition after landing on the fifth-floor roof " was arrested on suspicion of att…
This is not a pleasant story. "In theory, NYCharities was a small dance company's dream. Free to use, the nonprofit acted as a clearinghouse for companies to accept credit and debit ca…
Trying to sell Renoir as a progressive, or even a feminist … just no. " Hyperallergic
It's a mess. "In political violence, as in so many other parts of modern life, inspiration comes from an ever more bizarre range of origins. Portions of the [alleged El Paso shooter's] manif…
Well, not Cate, actually, but her character in Where'd You Go, Bernadette? That character hasn't been able to create anything for years. The movie's director, Richard Linklater: "Creativity …
It seemed like a good time to republish this, LitHub decided. "In their buildings, paintings, and stories, humanity is preparing to survive culture, if it comes to that. And the main thing i…
He doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to the women in his movies. And then there's his exchange with a reporter at Cannes this year. "His curtness in dismissing the conce…
A man who gained work in the movie business as an undocumented immigrant says that "it's the element of migration and the severed intergenerational connections it creates that modify the fam…
Everyone loved the first season of Fleabag just fine, but then the second season went and added a hot priest to the mixture. The TCA Awards responded. (The entire list of other winners " yes…
Fleming and conductor Patrick Summers of the Houston Grand Opera will be co-artistic directors of the Aspen Music Festival and School's opera program, redesigning it. "Fleming, who will cont…
Dick pic? Groping? Racist rant? It'll be fine. There are now "plans to sell 'disgrace insurance' to entertainment companies and commercial brands, making the risk of celebrity downfall as qu…
On stage, musicians " the most famous of the era, the ones who would become even more famous from Woodstock " were flown in; extensive set changes occurred around frantic, angry, urgent hous…
No figure in Broadway history had a bigger influence on how shows looked and behaved in the second half of the 20th century. " Los Angeles Times
In a statement upon confirmation of her appointment, Mary Anne Carter said: "I look forward to continuing to lead a talented and dedicated staff of professionals in our important work of ens…
Tim Mangan: "To put it briefly, these were cathedral acoustics: echoey, murky, swimmy, with a decay time of several seconds. Aurally, it was like playing in a high school gymnasium or Carlsb…
As more and more coursework winds up online, the Balkanization of teaching resources cuts ever deeper. " Wired
With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person's speech directly from their brain. The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how a person's intention to say spe…
The authors find little proof of increasing busyness among the population. Yes, as expected, people were spending far more time on digital devices in 2015 than they were in 2000. But the dat…
Games have shifted from a broad cultural enemy"a gory medium that all types of people might hold responsible for social disgrace"to a political tool. Video-game violence was once a bipartisa…
You sit in a Âplaza and it occurs to you that other people have been in your situation, whatever it is, and this knowledge is at the heart of civility. There are no answers, only stories"…
Though no one gets married in The Prom, the musical celebrates same-sex prom-going even as it lampoons celebrity culture, with a glitzy finale set (obviously) at the prom. "But all that glit…
A new play about the play, and the man, and his affair with the woman playing Desdemona (who happened to be Ute Hagen), and also her husband (who happened to be José Ferrer) … well, there…
The musical Six is about " what else " the wives of Henry VIII, a musical inspired by Beyoncé and Ariana Grande. That makes it an obvious candidate for Broadway, right? Yep: "The show start…
Kyle V. Hiller: "I've long felt that my relationship with pop culture, media, and art have lacked something. It took me years to realize that I just wasn't finding voices like my own represe…
"[GlaucÃa] da Silva plays in a quartet called Orquestra de Rua (Orchestra of the Street), alongside other classical musicians from Rio's favelas. They met through a local youth music init…