Jeopardy! champion Arthur Chu “leveraged his 15 minutes of game-show fame into, of all things, a national platform for his opinions about nerds: What America gets wrong about nerds; what nerds – especially male nerds – get wrong about themselves; and why it matters. … Chu wants to make nerd culture better – and to stop more of his fellow nerds from getting drawn into the worst of it.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
To Beam Or Not To Beam? How Live Broadcasts Are Changing Regional And Touring Theatre
Do screenings of stage productions from London steal audiences from local theatre or expand them? Nobody can agree on the answer. (Yet.)
How Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mother Back To Life
Christopher Frizzelle looks at the miracle(s) the author worked in To the Lighthouse.
25 Years Of Playing Mayor LaGuardia Onstage
When Tony LoBianco starred in a one-man show about New York City’s 99th mayor on Broadway in 1989, the production closed after 12 performances. Then the actor started rewriting the script, kept at it, and now has spent a quarter-century taking the piece, now titled The Little Flower, everywhere from Manhattan to Moscow to Milan.
‘Cryptomnesia’ – How We Come Up With Ideas Or Songs Or Paragraphs That Other People Already Had
The term, which means “hidden memory,” describes the cause of what’s often described as “unconscious plagiarism” – and it’s a phenomenon that can be replicated in the lab.
How The Hell Do You Install A 40-Ton Richard Serra Sculpture?
“The artist’s latest work, Equal, a series of paired 40-ton stacked steel cubes now on display at David Zwirner’s West 20th Street gallery, required master riggers, hydraulic gantries, and a custom runway just to be installed in a building itself expressly designed to accommodate artists’ big ideas. Now, if you were to buy one, just imagine trying to get installing it [past] your co-op board.”
Dancers, Know What You’re Getting Into When You Join This Guy’s Company
Says one member of Diavolo, Architecture in Motion about founder/artistic director Jacques Heim, “He often puts on a show. He lives to get a rise out of you. And by really nit-picking at what we don’t do so well, he knows he’s going to get something great out of us.” Says another, “On an artistic level, it’s an upstanding trait. But for the younger dancers, it’s a relationship that can potentially be tumultuous.” (video)
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The Conductorless Orchestra That Plays In Soup Kitchens And Crumbling Churches
Violinist Vena Johnson of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra: “There’s this disconnect between what the art means to us and how that translates into the community. Many people just aren’t reached. It’s not necessarily economic – if the art isn’t speaking to a society for what we’re going through, then it won’t translate.” (Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 5 went over particularly well in the soup kitchen.)
More Former Students Allege Ballet Instructor Took Nude Photos Of Them
“It is strange how we all sorta knew what was happening – and knew it was not right – but did not understand how wrong it was.”