Sunday, March 4, 2018
Her last lawsuit against Hollywood made case law, establishing protection for workers in personal services contracts - and helped break the studio system. Now, if this lawsuit against FX and…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AM[SHARE]The numbers are, to put it mildly, shite. "That gives us 85 percent male at our most conservative estimate and around 91 percent looking at our two more probabilistic estimates. That would m…
SOURCE: fivethirtyeight.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]The studio, which funded last year's Best Picture winner Moonlight and this year's Florida Project ... and Lady Bird as well. But "how has the company so quickly created such a strong consum…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AM[SHARE]He is so very finished with this nonsense (this nonsense that has utterly permeated popular culture). "'We know J.J. Abrams is preparing one now that I will hopefully do next year for him,' …
SOURCE: www.avclub.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Lekberg found her medium when she learned to weld. "'The old struggle with plaster and coat hangers ended when I began to weld steel,' she said, referring to her early efforts to make sculpt…
SOURCE: https:0 at 09:30AM[SHARE]How does it hold up? Hm; the Gen-Xers who discuss it here are mostly bemused. "I don't quite understand how young audiences would have seen Benjamin's stupefaction in the face of a future be…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]There's a new museum of contemporary art, and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which now has fairs in London, New York, and Marrakesh. "Tunji Akintokun, an I.T. executive based in Lon…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AM[SHARE]Or, in other words, can it be a force in music that disrupts labels the way Netflix disrupted ... well, what exactly did Netflix disrupt? Movie rental stores. Meanwhile, Apple Music might ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Jordan Peele also won best director at the Indie Spirit Awards, but Lady Bird won best screenplay, and all of the actors who have been winning everything, well, won everything. Still ... cou…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2018
Critic and scholar Hailey Bachrach on having, for instance, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing played by a woman: "We must think about these things beyond just the blanket assumption that an…
SOURCE: haileybachrach.com at 07:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2018
Generations of Broadway legends have played the role of Dolly, and Peters is (more than) up for it now: "When I took on the role, though, I just " I started from scratch. I read the script, …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2018
One actor set up a forum to discuss West End job sharing ideas, and it had hundreds of members within days. Actor Caroline Sheen is for it. '"Eight shows a week for a year - it's a lot for a…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]As Ensler was helping build a sanctuary for rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she discovered that she had stage 3/4 uterine cancer. After she turned that experience int…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:00AM[SHARE]Audible, the massive audiobook company that's owned by Amazon, just announced a "first round" of commissions for playwrights including Lauren Gunderson and Leah Winkler. But the plays won't …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2018
Jordan Roth, whose Jujamcyn Theatres owns five of Broadway's 41 theatres, and "who has had a longtime interest in performing and has dabbled in video production previously, conceived of this…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2018
Artists Repertory Theatre had plans to sell half of its building, including one of its theatres, to a development group that was going to turn the pricey Portland real estate into a 20-story…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:00AM[SHARE]How did a few interviews about the play turn into a book? The authors: "We kept getting so much amazing stuff. Every single person we talked to would tell us the kind of story you tell about…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
Well, that's one way to be more Elizabethan: "Drunk Shakespeare is akin to watching a live version of Comedy Central's Drunk History, only the audience is drinking along with the cast in rea…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2018
Play readings are, frankly, disappointing. "They're like walking by a food truck and hearing your stomach rumble, but just when you get your wallet out the truck drives off. ... It's just pe…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
The fairies in the latest production of Midsummer Night's Dream speak Te Reo, one of New Zealand's official languages, for about 20 percent of the production. "Online reviews left about the …
SOURCE: www.nzherald.co.nz at 09:15AM[SHARE]Community theatre, of course. Studi: "It was kind of a combination of the aftereffect of Vietnam in a way, in that " I won't say I was addicted or a junkie of adrenaline " but, you know, I t…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:15AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
The actor, who played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton with the original cast, is now one of the stars of Spike Lee's revamped She's Gotta Have It, now a series on Netflix. Ramos - who's doi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00AM[SHARE]Oops, the restaurant critic sent to review the on-stage edibles got distracted by the show, Network (an adaptation of the '70s movie): The food "barely registers. It's something dark on a pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]For years, Artists Repertory Theatre shepherded its building in what was historically a gritty location, through remodels and hosting a number of other cultural offices and eventually to a n…
SOURCE: www.opb.org at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 31, 2017
Playwright Ayad Akhtar: "I am not hopeful about where we are as a nation " as a species (if I can be so presumptuous). I'm not hopeful, because I am increasingly of the mind that even my hop…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 24, 2017
Lucy Kirkwood, playwright of The Children (now playing on Broadway), says she was trying for a long time to figure out how to write plays about climate change. "Then the events of Fukushima …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PM[SHARE]It's just an idea right now ... an idea with a building, and a lot of support, attached. "Four black theater organizations have pledged support, and have expressed interest in moving their i…
SOURCE: archpaper.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Of course, they were two men, and of course, they made a YouTube video. "In the video, the two males are seen gaining entry into the building through an unlocked door that gives them access …
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
“Hidden behind a gender- and race-neutral job description is an expectation, grounded in a stereotype, of what a theatre leader needs to look like: white and male, because white and ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2016
“There is an artist of color who is not Latino being cast in a part of someone who is Latino, which I feel can be just as dangerous because to me, as a Latino, that's saying ‘bro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]But the play he lied about sounds potentially amazing: “Mr. Scahill, the documents say, falsely claimed to have obtained the rights to the life story of the opera singer Kathleen Battl…
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