Sure, WarnerMedia claims that FilmStruck, DramaFever (a Korean drama service), and Super Deluxe is just a way to shutter anything that doesn’t get enough data for the new behemoth that is the combined AT&T and Warner. But that was, honestly, not very smart. “If WarnerMedia had eventually rolled FilmStruck into its bigger service, it would have been an enticing add-on for movie lovers, who are largely underserved by the big streaming services.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Proponents Of Virtual Reality Need To Stop Pretending It’s An Empathy Machine
It’s not – no tech is, and it’s dangerous to think that VR can cause more empathy. “Imagine if I came to the conclusion that homelessness wasn’t that big a deal because I enjoyed the challenging puzzle elements in the VR experience Becoming Homeless. Even worse, imagine if I believed I now had better insight into homelessness, and that my enjoyment left me with the impression that it wasn’t as bad as I feared.”
Classic American Musicals Have Problems, But They’re Good Place To Reexamine What America Could Be
Or at least, this year, the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, has had three different – and all radically new and different from each other, all offering new interpretations of where the United States is now (and where it was when the musical was written).
Ntozake Shange, Author Of ‘For Colored Girls’ And Many More Plays And Poems, Has Died At 70
The play, a choreopoem whos full name was For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Was Enuf, has been an identity-affirming find for young women for decades. “‘Zake was a woman of extravagance and flourish, and she left quickly without suffering,’ said Ifa Bayeza, her sister who also is a playwright and theater artist. ‘It’s a huge loss for the world. I don’t think there’s a day on the planet when there’s not a young woman who discovers herself through the words of my sister.'”
Inside Disney’s Super-Secret Vault
OK, it’s not actually super-secret, and it’s not a vault – it’s the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, “a silent, temperature-controlled labyrinth that underlines Disney’s zealous protection of its past and huge ambitions for its future.”
British Theatre ‘At Risk’ After Years Of Neglect Is Damaged More By Arson
The Burnley Empire Theatre is on the list of Theatres At Risk in the UK, and might be moving up from its spot at 14th after the fire. But it’s not alone, says an adviser at the Theatres Trust: “Heritage crime is a blight on the historic buildings in the UK and unfortunately it is all too common for empty theatres to be attacked in this way.”
How Is Country Music Dealing With Its Own Me Too Movement?
Hm. Not that well. “While there have been conversations behind closed doors about certain gatekeepers … there hasn’t been a tipping point like what’s happened in Hollywood with Weinstein. As one singer told Rolling Stone during an investigation that looked at harassment in country radio, ‘Nashville is a town of subtleties. Everything is covered by a friendly gauze.'”
Turns Out Television Is A Hotbed Of Immigrant Stereotypes
A new study from USC Annenberg says that “immigrant characters on television are still underrepresented and largely one-dimensional.”
The Moment When Poetry And Punk Collided
The day that Patti Smith and Sam Shepard met, she didn’t even know his real name (nor did she for a very long time afterward), but their meeting changed theatre, poetry, and punk.
Are Movie Theatres Back?
Maybe! “The U.S. box office has made roughly $9.3 billion in 2018 so far, nearly a 9% increase from last year.” (And it’s not all from Black Panther.)