“The common knock against rom-coms—besides their being too often glibly hetero-normative and horrendously lacking in diversity and ironically ambivalent about the women who generally watch them—is that they are fantasies, in the worst way as well as the best.”
Category: AUDIENCE
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Unless It’s In A Commercial
Lewis Lapham: “For the last several years the word ‘revolution’ has been hanging around backstage on the national television talk-show circuit waiting for somebody, anybody – visionary poet, unemployed automobile worker, late-night comedian – to cue its appearance on camera. … Why then does nobody have any use for it except in the form of the adjective, revolutionary, unveiling a new cell phone app or a new shade of lipstick?”
Why Movie Comedies Are A Dying Genre
Ten years ago, the blockbuster comedy was a key to any studio’s profit margin, given their relative cheapness to produce and propensity to linger in theaters on good word of mouth. Now, as worldwide box office becomes more crucial to the studio’s bottom line, comedies are vanishing from the schedule—because, in the words of one distributor, they don’t “travel well.”
Protests Over Gallery Openings In Los Angeles Escalate – The Anti-Gentrification Side Gets Noisy
“The protests come at a time when the city has gained a reputation as a contemporary art capital that some critics say eclipses New York. Over the past decade, the Los Angeles art scene has grown tremendously, with the opening of the popular Broad museum, large flagship spaces created by local galleries, and outposts set up by a string of prominent New York and European dealers, including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s 100,000-square-foot complex, all of which have helped transform downtown.”
Lin Manuel Miranda: How Arts Education Changed (And Defined) My Life
“The impact of arts education on my career is complete, total, and it saved my life. I no longer thought of school in semesters; I thought of it as: we do a play in the fall, we do a musical in the winter, and we had a student run theater group called Brick Prison which we would do in the spring. I was a writer with a deadline because I really wanted to get a play into Brick. That was the focus of my creative efforts for as long as I can remember.”
Benefits Of The Arts? A Review Of All The Studies Suggests Something Compelling
“Our review of the literature addressing these questions yielded a surprising result: the most compelling evidence of the value of the arts revolves around improving the lives of older adults. Better understanding the relationship between the arts and aging may help to identify areas for improvement in future research into wellbeing, as well as opportunities for investing in the quality of life of older individuals.”
The Sad, Surreal Experience Of Hearing Other Audience Members Laughing During ‘Moonlight’
Sometimes the audience and the movie don’t match up, to put it mildly, but that can be extra painful when the not-so-funny scene concerns a revelation of identity.
Hamburg Has A Thrilling New Concert Hall, But Will It Win Over The Citizens Who Funded It?
It’s a weird, stunning space, but no one yet knows how its acoustics will (or won’t) deliver.
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence
This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into being more diverse?… More orchestras are getting out of their concert halls… Can artificial intelligence connect us more closely to art?
How Can Theatre Be More Like Basketball?
In a video, Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theatre’s artistic director, explains. “The old vaudeville houses were interactive; in gilded opera theatres, the lights used to stay up, the crowd as much of a spectacle and dramatic social circus as the one that was happening on stage.”