Yes. Theatre is, to put it bluntly, special (and science backs that up). “There is something about theatre in particular that transforms the way we consider humanity. After surviving millennia, it remains one of the most popular and desirable modes of storytelling. Beyond entertainment, there is something we gain at the neural level by engaging with theatre.”
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Here’s How Museums Use Their Architecture To Court Bigger Crowds
New ideas say it’s time for museums to embrace their exteriors, even out into the sidewalks or streets near them, and certainly their plazas. In one case, in London, “the idea behind the project was to see the museum not just as a cultural project, but as an urban one. It needs to be of the street.”
Hollywood Has Its Worst Weekend Since The One After September 11, 2001
Actually, after adjusting for inflation, last weekend was even worse than that one. How is that possible? Blame a hurricane – and boxing.
A New Latinx Artist Sci Fi Show Posits That ‘In Space, We Are All Aliens’
After University of California Riverside curators decided on the sci-fi theme, “they traveled to six countries and 11 American cities where they discovered a wide range of artworks, made mainly over the last 20 years, dealing with concerns including the politics of immigration and the dangers of military surveillance.”
Poet Benjamin Zephaniah May Be Almost 60, But He Remains Angry And In It For The Revolution
Zephaniah is furious about – for instance – police surveillance of Black communities and the neglect of Grenfell Tower that led to the conflagration there. But he keeps a sense of humor: “When I talk to kids, I tell them about me growing up in gangs in Birmingham and how one day I got up and I went to London and I got involved in another gang and these were a real hard lot. All these kids are listening to me, and they go ‘Oh, you poor thing.’ And I go, ‘It was a gang of poets and painters,’ and they all laugh.”
So Seattle Has A Lenin Statue, And It’s Become Quite Controversial
Oh, Seattle. “The shaft of the flesh-colored dildo atop Vladimir Lenin’s head pointed upward at a slight angle, giving the Russian revolutionary the appearance of a grumpy, hyper-sexualized unicorn.”
The Oregon Bach Festival Suddenly Fires Its Popular Artistic Director After A Season Lackluster In Earnings
Matthew Halls, halfway through a four-year contract that saw him take the Oregon Bach Festival in the direction of historically informed performance, says he doesn’t know why he was fired, and the University of Oregon’s press release is not useful (“We look forward to a wider range of programmatic choices, community events, and cross-departmental relationships with UO faculty, staff, and students,” for instance). “Halls said he was not well versed in the specifics of his contract, which was to have expired in 2020. ‘I can’t begin to communicate the personal sadness I’m feeling,’ he said.”
Ten Days In The Overwhelming Disneyland Of Classical Music
The Salzburg Festival is so jammed with usually superb performances – six or eight every day of the six weeks it runs – that it’s hard to tell if anything has changed since a new artistic director took the helm. It’s still star-focused, and “The Vienna Philharmonic, a luxurious, willful house band, remains formidable.”
The Secret, And Rather Bloodthirsty, History Of Libraries
That’s right, it’s not just a metaphor. “Library fauna such as bookworms, bedbugs and microbats have long been the subject of study. But a little-known subfield concentrates on the human biology of libraries.”
At Long Last, It’s Their Turn At The Emmys
They met at Sundance Theater Lab 10 years ago, and though they’ve been in high-profile projects since, it wasn’t until 2016 that both Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry broke out (which is why you might know them as Randall from “This Is Us” or Paper Boi from “Atlanta”). It’s been quite a ride.