Art and Culture

A scene from SF Opera’s Innocence | Credit: Cory WeaverSeveral years ago, Ryan Marchand, director of diversity, equity, and community at San Francisco Opera, saw American Son, a Broadway play set in a Florida police station where a…
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Kelli O’Hara, Renee Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato in “The Hours” In response to my two-day-old blog about the Met’s “worst ever” Carmen, a prominent European artists’ manager wrote (in an email): “If you would have been forced – as…
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ABOUT THE GRAND THEATRE The Grand Theatre is known for world-class theatre created and built in London, Ontario. As southwest Ontario’s premiere producing theatre and one of the most beautiful theatre spaces in Canada, the company…
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“Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer,” writes Charles McNulty, “though there’s a bit more to it than that.” Friedman and star Jonathan Groff explain. – Los Angeles Times (MSN) Source link
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“When was the last time you passed a worksite and heard their radio playing music that had something to do with their work, or with the rhythm and tempo of their work? Music has become detached—or, to use a Marxist term,…
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About a month ago, Michael Paulson wrote an article for The Times about an unexpected “bright spot” in the American theatre landscape. “Broadway is struggling through a postpandemic funk, squeezed between higher production costs and…
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The purchase, which has already been completed, adds more than 40,000 academic titles published under the Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints, which cover the subjects of academic arts, humanities, and social sciences,…
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Explore After a recent theater performance, I remained in the audience as the…
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WHILE DRIVING THROUGH a neighborhood that endlessly replicates clone homes or traveling a city where once bustling factories have shuttered their industry, one might wonder who designed these domestic dystopias and apocalyptic sites. In…
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Author Jonathan Haidt on TodayEvery generation of adults thinks the next is growing up in a broken world. “It is the story of humanity,” says Jonathan Haidt, author of a new book on a youth mental illness epidemic called The Anxious…
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