The “Mimi” Award “is presented biennially to an American playwright whose body of work has made significant contributions to the American theatre.” Parks, who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Topdog/Underdog, joins a list of laureates that includes Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Sarah Ruhl.
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London’s National Theatre Offers Augmented Reality Glasses For Audience
Jacob Weisberg Recalls The Founding Of Slate Magazine
“Remember, when we started, you didn’t just have to tell people what an internet magazine was. You usually had to tell them what the internet was. We thought Slate would be like a weekly magazine and people would print it out, and we mainly thought of the web as kind of an instant distribution mechanism.”
We’re Attracted To “Interesting” Experiences. But How To Define Them?
What does it mean for an experience to be interesting? First, to say that something is interesting is to describe what the experience feels like to the person undergoing it. This is the phenomenological quality of the experience. When we study the phenomenology of something, we examine what it feels like, from the inside, to experience that thing.
Bay Area Artistic Organizations’ Leadership Suddenly Facing Massive Change
As the Philharmonia Baroque announces retirement plans for Nicholas McGegan, who provided leadership there over the past third of a century, other Bay Area performing-arts organizations are experiencing a tsunami of changes after many years of apparent permanence.
What Is Western Civilization? It Isn’t About The Monuments
Mutual aid, social cooperation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others: these are the kind of things that actually go to make civilisations. In which case, the true history of civilisation is only just starting to be written. It might begin with what archaeologists call ‘culture areas’ or ‘interaction spheres’, vast zones of cultural exchange and innovation that deserve a more prominent place in our account of civilisation.
PBS Tops Emmy Documentary Winners List
The public broadcaster won seven trophies, with HBO and CBS following with six each.
How To Make (And Not To Make) Choreography Funny
“Humor is subjective, and it can be tough to get right. Though there are many moments of brilliant comedy in dance, there are also so many failed attempts that, well, it’s not even funny. There’s no exact formula for grabbing a laugh. But experimenting with these ingredients can help you tap into your funny.”
Termination or Continuation? Parsing the Uncertain Status of Federal Arts & Humanities Appropriations
While Congress and President Trump continue to kick the budgetary can down the road, federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities remains temporarily intact, with its future in doubt.
The Belated Emergence of Billy Strayhorn
He was one of the great hidden figures in musical history, and he seems to be a bit less invisible every year.