Art and Culture

“Founded in 1973 as an avant-garde theater project committed to local actors, the Wilma has been renowned for its experimental, boundary-pushing work. … It is the first theater in Pennsylvania to win the award, which ……
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The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under…
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If you are a theatre lover, you’ll no doubt be accustomed to putting a portion of your income aside to make sure you have enough for your special nights at a show. But with cost of living pressures biting hard, you may be adopting…
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“Dr. Rachael Gunn, … the 36-year-old B-girl known as ‘Raygun’, a portmanteau of her name, completed a thesis in 2017 on the intersection of gender in Sydney’s breaking scene while training to become one of…
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Are big orchestras officially back? The recent starry Broadway revivals of Sweeney Todd, Camelot, and Parade have eschewed what has become the Broadway norm. Orchestras are growing again, harkening back to the golden age…
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Images courtesy of Brad Phillips. This morning, before breakfast, I played nineteen games of Scrabble on my phone. I won thirteen. It took less than an hour. Over the past twenty-five years, I’ve played Scrabble every day,…
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At the core of these deflections is an implication: The hypothetical superintelligence they are building is too big, too world-changing, too important for prosaic concerns such as copyright and attribution. – The Atlantic (MSN)…
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The reason for the return to larger-cast shows gets at the heart of what makes the 89-year-old company unique. OSF is one of the biggest nonprofit theaters in the U.S., but it’s based in Ashland, Ore., which has a population of just…
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Agnes Arnold-Forster was once a very nostalgic child. An avid reader of Enid Blyton novels, she tells us, she unsuccessfully begged her parents to “divert me from my 1990s London primary to a boarding school in 1950s Cornwall”. Although…
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