Inside the 25-year journey of Patrick Dunning's The Signature Project---The Signature Project, currently running at the Sheen Center, was never meant to be onstage. The brainchild of Dublin-…
Lisa Howard finds romance and self-love in the new Jimmy Buffett musical---At first, much of Escape to Margaritaville at Broadway's Marquis Theatre is what you would anticipate from a musica…
That number isn't a shock " Netflix has been clear about the importance of TVs for a long time, and it's why the company has spent a lot of energy working out integration deals with pay T…
"It's not [Nicholas Hytner's] fault that during his 12-year tenure at the National Theatre he wildly discombobulated expectations of what artistic directors could do. But that is what happen…
There's much to be learned from the South African protest docudrama The Fall---"Nothing about us without us!" That slogan served as a rallying cry for the University of Cape Town (UCT) stude…
"[He was] a force of nature, a whirlwind, an ambulant torrent of surreal invention, physical and verbal, whose Liverpudlian cheek masked the melancholy of an authentic clown. 'This isn't tel…
"[He] started building his career in the 1950s Soviet Union, gradually becoming one of the best known and beloved actors of his generation. He received multiple awards for his film and stage…
The entries are composed with a knowing wit. Some are twisty and loquacious, others witheringly economic. They're structured like jokes, and there's a light, nerdy thrill in following these …
The Executive Director of the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture will partner with the Office of the Mayor, the local arts and culture community, and national arts and culture…
The Wholehearted attacks tough questions at Abrons Arts Center---Ironically, there's something comforting about procedural crime dramas because we know how they will go. Female victim endure…
HBO created an entire theme park set in the American frontier, where "Westworld" fans can experience what it's like to be a guest of the sci-fi show's park. Actors playing the town's residen…
The Met did not release the specific findings of its investigation, which it said had included interviews with 70 people. The statement also said that the investigation had "uncovered credib…
The NRA's visual logic suggests a new twist in the culture wars. Cities, today, are thriving, and the old rhetoric of the city as a kind of cancer spreading into the heartland no longer work…
"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has asked me to fill a new post called chief design officer for the city. In that role, beginning next month, I'll be working in the mayor's office to raise …
No longer "just" for buying souvenirs, the modern museum gift shop seeks to extend the experience of the museum. Games out of art, art as products of any sort. Visitor engagement begins when…
They're styling it as audience engagement, but if you're actually in the museum space itself, does a virtual experience really deliver more than the real experience around you?
Balich also has to convince Italy's traditionally skeptical art conservators that he's not out to circumvent visits to the real chapel with a glitzy concoction that includes theater, ballet …
The Teatro Massimo is not nearly as well-known internationally as those other theaters, but it is an opera house with a back story that few artistic venues can match. That in turn has contri…
"The Celebrate Freedom Rally completely sold out the Kennedy Center with thousands in attendance, and a television audience of millions who watched live on July 1 via Daystar -- an evangelic…
A lot of what makes physical art valuable is its scarcity " there are only so many paintings by Mark Rothko, after all. But digital art has always been different because it can be perfectly …
Christian Merlin: "What to make of the Internet? We tried to determine criteria, but it was difficult because, broadly speaking, none of the approaches worked. A press card? Even I've never …
Though his music may often sound as if it were written by a man locked in the basement of the Paris opera"hearing late-nineteenth-century music, muffled, from a couple of floors down"he turn…
The woman who wrote the "Overlooked" New York Times obit for Plath says, "The obituary I was going to write would be very different from the obituary we would have written when Plath died. I…
"Minds are not made by nervous systems alone but rather by nervous systems in cooperation with many other and far older living systems of our body, including metabolic, endocrine, immune and…
The internet has made the pace of language change much, much faster. "Now that every English speaker in the world can talk to every other English speaker in the world, the virus is mutating …