These awards happened this weekend, and yes: "If the Grammys are out of touch, the iHeartRadio awards are almost too in touch, celebrating the most popular of popular music and rejecting stu…
Well, the Los Angeles Times has you covered, with what they're calling "the Pantherpedia."
Instead, of, say, No Country for Old Men, this genre pulls from a different strand of thought. "Solarpunk prioritizes hope and resilience in the face of the climate crisis. The stories in ea…
Armando Iannucci: "This act of censorship gave me no joy; the overwhelming emotion has been one of sad disappointment that in the world of instant communication, and the anarchic disseminati…
Liv Wyntner was one of four teaching artists-in-residence at the Tate for 2017-2018, but when Tate director Maria Banshaw made what seemed to many dismissive statements about harassment and …
Mantel, who works during and through quite a lot of pain, her sudden but last popularity has been unexpected. "The books are not for all readers, and some complain that they're too complex, …
Matthew Ball "was asked to rush back to the Royal Opera House and dance a key role in Giselle, a part he had performed only once before, after the American star David Hallberg injured himsel…
The comic book publishing company Lion Forge is based in St. Louis, but is finding success with digital comics, including one about eating disorders that just won an award as one of the best…
The first season of his new company is all white men, and last week, the former director of the National Theatre got mad at those who suggested it should be more diverse - and of course the …
The space was used for storage until, well, recently, when they took up the floorboards, only to find literally centuries worth of detritus - including many different centuries of stained gl…
Sickeningly, the Nazi-looted art led to a boom in the global art market from 1941 onward. They stole so very, very much art to fund the war effort: "In the decade leading up to 1945, it's es…
There was, as we all know, a famous glitch in the delivery of Moonlight's Best Picture Oscar, and Jenkins was so overwhelmed at the time that he didn't get to read his speech. So at this wee…
Led by photographer Nan Goldin, who was addicted to OxyContin for three years, "protesters brandished black banners with the phrases 'Shame on Sackler' and 'Fund Rehab' and hurled yellow pil…
Daniel Aukin on staging Joshua Harmon's Admissions---In Joshua Harmon's Admissions, set at a tony New England prep school, über-competitive senior Charlie (played by Ben Edelman) goes o…
"What's always challenging is there's so much scrutiny, and I do think the language the press and other people use is different. I got called steely, I got called formidable, I got called to…
Succeeding company co-founder Howard Shalwitz is Maria Manuela Goyanes, 38, who is currently director of producing and artistic planning at the Public Theater in New York City. (Public artis…
Sultanof On His Big Band Book A few weeks ago the Rifftides Monday Recommendation was Jeff Sultanof's new book Experiencing Big Band Jazz. ... Sultanof was recently the guest on Michael Fitz…
How to support female artists this month -- and beyond---Theatre has long loved its divas. But when it comes to women performing other artistic roles -- playwright, director, designer -- the…
According to numbers released Tuesday by the U.S. Commerce Department, economic activity generated by Missouri's arts and cultural industries grew 12.6 percent in 2015, which was faster t…
30 Rock star Maulik Pancholy plays a deluded patient in Good for Otto---For the first half of David Rabe's new drama Good for Otto, set in a rural mental health clinic, Maulik Pancholy sits …
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts on Tuesday unveiled their most recent analysis of the economic impact of arts and culture in the U.S. In…
"Lift: Slobodan Show premiered at a packed theatre in GraÄanica, a Serb-populated town outside Kosovo's capital of Pristina. It was performed by a local theatre group and artists from Ser…
Folk Wandering investigates the myth of the American Dream---Walking into Pipeline Theatre Company's new musical Folk Wandering is akin to stepping into a stranger's attic. Unruly piles of r…
That takes the crown from Harry Potter And The Cursed Child which last year scored 11 (tying with 2008's Hairspray).
As the national dialogue around gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, disability and other factors is continually evolving, the theatrical canon is being rewritten daily. Will audiences …