Recent plays are showing teenagers in all of their complexity, cruelty, shyness, rage, and desire for more, says Diep Tran. “In other words, there are whole worlds within teenage girls and they are complicated AF.”
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In Hollywood And Looking To Connect With A Young Multicultural Audience? Talk To This Guy
The Cashmere Agency’s business has exploded in recent years, just as the U.S. demographics change permanently. “In the past, Hollywood’s marketing efforts were mostly aimed at white audiences. But as the industry shifts to capitalize on an increasingly diverse nation, marketing tactics have also had to change. These efforts require more nuance and cultural sensitivity to successfully engage young people of color, women and LGBTQ communities.”
Hong Kong’s Youth Culture, Translated By Animations
An artist who made his name with bizarre, playful and violent animations that got at the heart of Hong Kong’s weird relationship with mainland China says “In the society, we all have doubts now and people have less emotional reactions to the politics. We are really disappointed and we are feeling powerless.”
Paul Taylor Has (At Long Last) Chosen A Successor For His Company And Foundation
The surprise successor will be 35-year-old Michael Novak, who has been with the company since 2010. For Novak, “the appointment came out of nowhere. Just after the company’s Lincoln Center season ended in March, he went to Mr. Taylor’s apartment for a meeting. ‘Paul said, ‘I have been thinking a long time and I have decided that you’re going to be the one to take over the company once I buzz off,’’ Mr. Novak said. ‘I don’t think ‘shocked’ even begins to describe the feeling.'”
Keeping Women On The Shelves Requires Ensuring There’s A Secondary Market
Author and book dealer AN Devers began the The Second Shelf project after experience in serious book buying. She realized, and did research to back up her realizations, that “book collectors help determine which writers are remembered and canonised, and which are forgotten. The collector trade is a part of a supply line, to readers’ bookshelves, universities, archives and libraries. Historically it has been male-dominated (bookmen), white, and oriented around a western canon. Women, particularly women of colour, are left under-recognised, their books deemed less collectable and given less space on shelves.”
The Met Now Says James Levine Has A Decades-Long History Of ‘Sexual Misconduct’
From the Met’s countersuit to Levine’s lawsuit against the Met, details from the investigation: “The company says it found credible evidence that Mr. Levine had ‘used his reputation and position of power to prey upon and abuse artists,’ citing examples of sexual misconduct that it says occurred from the 1970s through 1999.”
One Comedian Says She Has No Time For The Men Disgraced By The MeToo Movement
Tig Notaro got famous partly because of Louis CK, but she’s glad he’s out of her life and her now canceled Amazon show, “One Mississippi.” She says of all the rumors of the return of various men accused of harassment and attacks, “The attention and support for the victims needs to be continued, more than people worried about these abusers and what’s next for them, how are they going to move on — shut up.”
The Sad Tales Of Lost Masterpieces, And A Few That Might Yet Be Found
Was a famous Caravaggio fed to hungry pigs? That’s what a Mafia informer told the authorities.
Broadway Keeps Chasing (And Rarely Catching) That Disco Beat
Even though Summer: The Donna Summer Musical has been clearing $1 million per week since early April, Broadway doesn’t have a super track record with disco. But that hardly matters – the shows, critically panned, often survive for awhile on Broadway before taking off for massive world tours.
Beat Poet, Author, And Mentor Bobbie Louise Hawkins Has Died At 87
“Equipped with only a high school education but, as a voracious reader, fortified with a copious vocabulary, Ms. Hawkins left her literary imprint on a cultural landscape dominated by men and as a mentor to a generation of female writers.”