12.19.13 – ArtsJournal Wayback

August: Osage County Becomes Community Theater Hit

Surprisingly (or not?), amateur troupes all over the U.S. have taken to the dysfunctional-family extravaganza.

What It Takes To Study Kathakali

Students of the dance-drama from the Indian state of Kerala face a regimen that even ballet dancers might find daunting.

Why Is John Goodman One of Hollywood’s Favorite Character Actors?

“I guess I’m able to tap into some undealt-with anger a lot. My innate rage.”

Another Show Cancelled Because Network Execs Think Girls Don’t Count

“‘We need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’ — this is the network talking — ‘one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as the boys.'”

Taking Los Angeles to Manhattan

“The perception of L.A. theater as merely an actor’s showcase (as opposed to a cultural venture) has faded.”

What Online Dating Sites Tell Us About Race In America

“Social psychologists know that what people say and what they do have little empirical connection. Dating sites capture what we do, and play it back for us. They expose who we are, who we want, and, of course, who we don’t want.”

Museum Boom – China Now Has 4000 Of Them (We Think)

That is a lot of museums. Then again, how do you define one? In China the word seems to refer to all types of spaces, from state-sponsored institutions to private collector-fueled projects … to the “many new museums … built as part of new property projects to help get them planning permission. Some may never have been intended for their stated purpose.”

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