“New audiences, however, have sparked new security needs, particularly around the stage door that cast members use to enter and exit the theater. Fans, sometimes ones who didn’t attend the production, flock to them, so that most Broadway stage doors are now flanked by steel barricades.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Mind-Hacks Of Stoicism Beat Out Anything in Christianity Or Zen Buddhism
“Only by envisioning the bad can we truly appreciate the good; gratitude does not arrive when we take things for granted. It’s precisely this gratitude that leaves us content to cede control of what the world has already removed from our control anyway.”
Working Close To The Art, As A Museum Jill Of All Trades
“Everyone wears a lot of hats. I also sweep the floor, take the garbage out and lay bug traps. I always thought when I reached this point that I’d wear pencil skirts and kitten heels and look fancy, but the reality is I spend a lot of time on the floor.”
Are Cinema’s New Shared Universe Sagas A Good Thing?
“There’s a chunk of every Marvel movie that doesn’t belong there, either because it’s effectively a trailer for a subsequent film, or because it’s an arch allusion to an earlier one. The danger is that as the MCU gets more byzantine, and the intertextual nods and winks become more common, its films won’t make any sense unless you’ve seen all the others.”
Will The San Fernando Valley Finally, Like, Get Its Own Museum?
“‘We’re on the verge of a cultural renaissance in the Valley,’ Sterling says. ‘It’s happening really fast, and people are getting behind it. If we were a city, we’d be the fifth-largest population base in the U.S. The Valley needs a world-class museum.'”
Gender And Writing, Blah Blah Blah – But Yes, It’s Still Important
“Everyone is shaped by their experience of gender, whatever that experience is; there is no view from nowhere. Men’s experience is no less specific than women’s; it’s just that we fail to see it as such.”
About To Go To Sleep? Put Your E-Reader In A Different Room
“The use of such devices ‘has unintended biological consequences that may adversely impact performance, health and safety,’ according to a research team led by neuroscientist Anne-Marie Chang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.”
The Ideals Of ‘Rent’ – And What It Got Completely Wrong, Too
“It depicted what to me was a fantasy as attractive as any I’d ever seen: that you could be in your twenties, living in New York City, surrounded not by the family you’d left behind but by the ones you’d made. That you could pursue above all else art and love. At its end, I leapt to my feet in applause.”
Streaming Liberates Obsessive Collectors From Endless Record Shows (And More)
“I had arrived in the promised land — or at least Spotifyland — no more bulky records and CDs strewn about my home requiring alphabetization, no more ripping, no more glitchy files downloaded nefariously from KaZaa needing to be retitled and volume equalized, no more agonizing how I would parse my eMusic allowance, no more checking and unchecking tracks in iTunes so I could get just the right 19,873 songs on my iPod classic.”
Ballet Is Ruthlessly Darwinian, Not To Mention Dangerous
“Ballet is a high-risk activity, and a slippery patch of stage or a split-second’s inattention in a leap can spell serious injury and months of rehabilitation.”