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Austin, which has been struck by a series of handmade bombs in the last few weeks, is on edge, so when the promotion company Live Nation said it had gotten an emailed bomb threat, the police…
Oh: "'Southern folk music's overwhelming dominance " for all its championing by non-Southern liberals " also subtly reinforces the 'heritage not hate' defenses of the Confederate flag and ot…
Ask David Foster Wallace - or Leslie Jamison: "I'd been afraid that meetings were basically lobotomies served alongside coffee-flavored water and Chips Ahoy!; afraid that even if sobriety co…
Since the new play opened last weekend, the Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine, has been getting hate calls. "I had one woman tell me, 'I don't want to see a play about those (expletive) …
It's been 50 years since the massacre, and since Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew stopped it from being far worse. Now, as the opera plays around the country, traditional Vietnamese ins…
Nasrallah was a journalist, teacher, lecturer and novelist who advocated for women's rights and wrote about refugees and war in Lebanon. Her books "recount the emptiness left by immigration,…
Why? And how? "We might deny that morality needs to be taught, putting our faith in the natural goodness of children or their propensity to discover and sign up to moral standards of their o…
One problem is simply the numbers in the U.S. - single digits for women directors, compared to women being 1/4 of directors in France, for instance. And then, of course, "sci-fi is still fie…
This is part of what it's like: "By day, a steady stream of tourists came, posing for pictures (and peeking in the windows) dressed in the free costumes provided by the visitor center " cali…
Rasquache is the art of making do with very little - something that might lead to, well, black velvet paintings. "For generations, these pieces have been placed on the mantles of Chicano hou…
A man who worked on the technology of Hawking's voice synthesizer in 1986 got a call in 2014 about saving the tech. "In nearly 30 years, he had never switched to newer technology. Hawking li…
The theatre took down its website and all of its social media at the same time the announcement went out on a Friday morning. "The unsigned statement from ATC's board (which declined intervi…
Sharmaine Lovegrove, the woman who opened the first English-language bookstore in Berlin when she couldn't get any hold in London, returned to Britain 20 years later - only to be met with a …
Earlier this month we welcomed SpongeBob SquarePants stars Wesley Taylor and Stephanie Hsu for a live, 20-minute chat on the TDF Facebook page. They answered fans' questions and goofed on ea…
The New Collectives offers a feminist slant on those women of Troy---Before Giverny Petitmermet became the artistic director of The New Collectives -- a NYC-based arts company that both crea…
They tried to have a panel about it during SXSW. But even the panel showed the problem: "Issues surrounding sexual harassment and misconduct are one of the greatest challenges facing not onl…
A group called Factum Arte is using high-quality 3D scanners to bring works of art that have been damaged or partially lost back to life. And it has some intense results: "It's absolutely br…
Propwatch: the axe in Buggy Baby It was Chekhov who defined the essential rule of theatre props. 'If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall,' he told a friend in 1889, 'then in …
Not in the way you might expect, though. "Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on t…
Amid the emergence of a far-right, anti-refugee coalition government in the country, "the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz is using the eerie sound of fingers rubbed on water-filled glasses to…
And this is from the students themselves, who ranked arts degrees above language, history, and philosophy. This may be more a reflection of the schools than the subject, however. One student…
Kander: "Because corruption in society never seems to go out of style. Every once in a while, it becomes more obvious than not." Reinking: "Every step is basically a word. Especially with mu…
"'PBT: New Works' marks the first time the company has mounted a full showcase of dancers' choreography for a mainstage performance. However, nurturing emerging choreographers on PBT's roste…
Corps member William Moore on his Weighted Affair: "I wanted to create a simple narrative - a dinner party with friends - to try to show the sometimes conflicting nature between what someone…
For all the attention that's now being paid to correcting the longstanding obstacles that women and minorities face in the field, a number of British theater workers (both onstage and backst…
