“From All in the Family to Modern Family, a lot has changed over the past few decades about the way gay people and their relationships are portrayed in the media. The Post‘s Krissah Thompson stops by to explain.”
Tag: 03.25.13
Mayhem Notwithstanding, Bolshoi Manages To Celebrate Rite Of Spring
“Despite the turmoil following the attack in mid-January on Bolshoi ballet artistic director Sergei Filin, the theater has continued without hesitation to follow the age-old precept ‘the show must go on.’ And this week it … opens a four-week-long festival, ‘Century of The Rite Of Spring – Century of Modernism’, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the ballet.”
Kabuki’s Flagship Theater Reopens With High-Tech Fittings
The Kabuki-za in Tokyo’s Ginza district was torn down in 2010 because it was too vulnerable to earthquakes. Now rebuilt and temblor-proofed, the theater has kept its traditional layout but added such items as a 54-foot-deep pit and portable screens displaying subtitles.
Science Fiction’s Latest Movement: A Non-Movement
“Science fiction and fantasy have always been genres prone to movements and manifestos … Cyberpunk, New Wave, Steampunk, New Weird … Now, however, a new generation of writers seems to be coming to the fore – a generation without a manifesto or a unifying purpose.”
Reading Mark Twain’s Fan Mail
“In fact I’m living beyond my time, – because [the doctor] said Oct 15 was my last day ‘on live’ – The only reason I didn’t die on that date was that I wanted to read your latest story in Harpers.”
Colorful 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Depict the Fight Against Contagion
The artworks “represent battles with the diseases of cholera and smallpox. As Japan remained largely closed to Western trade until Commodore Matthew Perry forced ports to open in 1854, the woodblocks show how Japanese people’s conception of sickness, health, and medicine changed through early contact with Westerners.”
What If Buying Theatre Was Just Buying Theatre (And Not A Specific Company)?
Maybe it would be a kind of theatre-by-the-pound, in which you put your money in and go to whatever plays you wanted, wherever…
What Do You Do If The Artist Is A Racist?
We have precedents for heinous personal beliefs coinciding with creative brilliance (Ezra Pound, Richard Wagner), and bigotry embodied in works of great formal achievement (“The Birth of a Nation,” “Triumph of the Will”), but this is an unusual case of an artist’s ideological extremism so suddenly exposed, and so plainly relevant to his art.
Is An E-Book Revolution Coming To France?
“A little over a year ago, when we approached one of France’s main publishing houses to discuss e-books, they quite candidly said they didn’t even have an e-book strategy. It was as though e-books were not even within their scope. It was disconcerting. And yet, a few months later, it took no convincing at all to get other French publishers on board for direct-to-digital English translations.”
Danny Boyle: 3-D Films ‘May Be A Phase’
Says the director of Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and the London Olympics opening ceremony, “It’s a tool, you know. There are sound innovations coming actually, particularly Dolby Atmos, which are going to do something very equivalent to what 3D does. So, I don’t know if 3D will survive to be honest. I think it may be a phase.”