The issue of delayed wages has been a thorn in the side of arts workers for months – or years. While unionized workers have shut down several museums over it, this protest was organized by non-unionized workers. “Among the texts written on the placards held up by Villalba and his colleagues were ‘Exhibitions are always on time, why aren’t our payments?’ ‘NO to work without rights;’ and ‘The love of art should not mean unpaid work.'” – Hyperallergic
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How Can Theatre Professors Resist Doing So Much Unpaid Emotional Labor?
In all of academia, not only theatre, women who teach become support for students rather than only academic help – and it’s burning the women out. One recent Ph.D. discovered that she could solve some of that burnout with the help of … a giant stuffed Pokémon character. – HowlRound
Johanna Lindsey, Bestselling Romance Novelist, Has Died At 67
Lindsey started writing romance on a whim, and she wrote more than 60 novels – and sold more than 60 million books. – The New York Times
Don’t Blame Young Adults For Teen Musicals On Broadway
Just like Young Adult literature, YA theatre – or Teen theatre, perhaps – had an initially rapturous welcome, and a rapid cooling-off. “Critical consensus about Young Adult Theatre took a sharp turn when the subgenre became solidified, popularized, and canonized with the viral teen hit Be More Chill. Joe Iconis’s musical, which made it to Broadway thanks to a huge, enthusiastic teenage fanbase online, received vitriol from many critics who called it loud, hollow, and vapid.” – American Theatre
Dancing On Ice Is About To Make History By Finally Having A Same-Sex Couple In The Show [VIDEO]
Uh, congratulations? That’s very advanced of Dancing on Ice, if we lived in, say, 1994? But of course, someone has to be first. – BBC
At A Quasi-Secret Film Festival In Belarus, Trying To Stay Ahead Of The KGB
The organizers of the festival, almost all women, had to come up with Plans C and D after the Belarus KGB said no to showing films in the theatres or bank buildings. “The confidence to cover the screen in black, to ask such serious questions about liberty and cinema. Compared with this, most film festivals look meagre and transient.” – The Guardian (UK)
A Trove Of Family Recipes Reveals A Centuries-Long Secret
If you know the recipes date back to Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition, does that tell you what the secret is? “One of the most unusual recipes … uncovered [was] a sugary dessert called ‘chuletas,’ the Spanish word for pork chops. ‘It’s designed to look like a pork chop,’ Milgrom explains, ‘but it’s really made from bread and milk.’ Basically, it’s French toast that’s fried in the shape of a pork chop and dressed up with tomato jam and pimentos.” – NPR
Not Even ‘Star Wars’ (Not Even ‘Avengers,’ Not Even Anything) Can Save This Year’s Box Office
But let’s put it into context. “Just four percent down? At a time when the Star Wars franchise expanded into live-action television for the first time with The Mandalorian on Disney Plus? ‘Hallelujah,’ you can almost hear film executives saying.” – The New York Times
Sure, The New Cats’ ‘Memory’ Is A Popera Furball, But Whose Fault Is That?
Let’s talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what’s been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT‘s pop music critic isn’t a fan: “To hear the song’s dreary opening arpeggios now is to reflexively brush off the possibility of encountering something that might move you; the tune, a happily trashy bit of ersatz Puccini, has become a kind of showbiz parody of the emotion it once sought genuinely to embody.” – Los Angeles Times
The Banksy Of Las Vegas?
Wait, if you let yourself be photographed for a feature story, aren’t you already out of the running for being the “Banksy of” anything? Well, it’s Vegas, y’all. Frankie Aguilar says that on his canvas, he creates “Neon, colorful, dinosaurs, giant robots and fun stuff. It’s a big playground for your eyes.” – Las Vegas Weekly