Art and Culture

It’s rare for a children’s movie to leave the viewer with more questions than answers. Brevity is their whole point. In a relatively small window of time, kids get a two-for-one special: entertainment and wisdom. Given their limited…
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One advocate for the lawsuit: “The consequences would be felt nationwide, from destroying CNN the way that Ellisons have devastated CBS to entertainment industry job losses and consumers losing access to independent voices and a…
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Image by Juan Manuel Bassi from Pixabay This week the US Department of Education proposed judging eligibility for college student loan programs by what college graduates of those programs typically earn. The arts programs that would…
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Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in runs of hundreds of copies.” One was anonymous – but perhaps not anymore.…
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“The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times…
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“One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as a teenager. He told The Guardian that it ‘ignited something in my core.’” – The New York Times…
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(Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, 1949). In a guest essay in the New York Times, former Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar writes that…
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Ask Michael Arden what it’s like to mount a new Broadway musical and the “Lost Boys” director will take a beat, then methodically deliver a wry response.“You might as well say, like, ‘Start a new civilization.’”There’s a big reason it…
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Good Morning, The Tony awards last night said a lot about where Broadway’s head is at: more reassurance than risk. Vulture handicapped the field (Vulture) — while the argument that the season has gone soft, “serving up…
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