“Sound designers working on Broadway and at theaters nationwide erupted in outrage after a committee that oversees the Tony Awards decided Wednesday to eliminate future awards for best sound design of a play and of a musical.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Audra McDonald Replies To Criticism Of Her Tony Speech
“Every parent, when faced with a decision like that, makes it on the basis of real, personal and specific circumstances relating to their child. For some, the right decision is to medicate, for some it is not. … I’m positive that your son will someday recognize that he has a mother who is fiercely devoted to him and that every decision she ever made was out of love for the child he is and the adult he will become.”
Now Everyone Can Sample, And Other Grammy Category And Rule Tweaks
The primary change is that “samples and interpolations of previously written songs [will] be allowed in all Grammy Award songwriting categories, including song of the year. … Previously, samples or interpolations were allowed in only the Best Rap Song category.”
An App That Makes You Dance, With Real Choreography
“Bounden works like this: two players hold the phone from opposite ends and guide a cursor through a sort of maze on the screen while music plays; the shape of the maze forces the players to twist, spin, and loop around and under each other, as in a dance. The underlying choreography was developed by Ernst Meisner of the Dutch National Ballet, and the app contains videos of company members performing the finished dances.”
Why People Sleep Together (We Mean Actually Sleeping)
Though most people in couples won’t admit it, especially to other people, sleep is by nature a solitary activity, and most of us do it better alone. But there are good reasons that humans do, and always have, slept in pairs or even groups.
The Indonesian Performance Artist Who Got Famous For Dancing On Butter
“Two years ago, the Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo gained YouTube notoriety when a version of her Exergie — butter dance was posted to the website. Originally accompanied by Indonesian drum percussion, the reworked clip set [her] performance of a traditional Indonesian-inspired dance on 20 blocks of melting butter to Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’.”
It’s Time To Stop Training So Many Actors For Work They Won’t Be Able To Find
Susan Elkin, The Stage‘s Education and Training editor: “Nobody embarks on medical training, an accountancy degree or business management training in the knowledge that she or he is highly unlikely ever to be able to make a living from it. It simply isn’t how training and work operates in a sensible world.”
That Rembrandt Portrait In England Is Definitely By Rembrandt
“A remarkable 17th-century self-portrait has finally been verified as an authentic Rembrandt following decades of doubt, after scientific analysis [by Great Britain’s National Trust] proved it had been painted by the artist’s own hand.”
If You’re Going To Forge An Artist’s Work, Spell His Name Right In The Signature
One of the paintings that Knoedler & Company sold as a Jackson Pollock was signed “Pollok”. “The gallery’s former president, Ann Freedman, insisted that she and her colleagues had had no reason to think that any of the paintings were counterfeit.”
The Sniffy, Scandalized Letter That Sealed the UK Government’s Ban of ‘Ulysses’
“In this 1922 letter, the British Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Archibald Bodkin, issued an official opinion on James Joyce’s book Ulysses: ‘In my opinion, there is more, and a great deal more than mere vulgarity or coarseness, there is a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity.'”