Lisa McNulty, “who has been the artistic line producer at Manhattan Theater Club since 2006, will begin her new job on Aug. 11. She has a long history with the 36-year-old Women’s Project Theater, whose mission is to produce plays written and directed by women.”
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Why Do Our Brains Leap To Stereotypes?
“In essence, they write, our minds are hard-wired to categorize information and create mental shortcuts (attribute A is associated with behavior B). This helps us retain knowledge using minimal mental effort, and provides a needed sense of structure to an otherwise chaotic universe. In doing so, however, nuances and complications tend to be discarded.”
Six Arrested In $1M StubHub International Hacking Case
“Six individuals in Russia and the United States have been charged with taking part in a broad international hacking scheme that attacked over 1,600 StubHub users’ accounts and fraudulently purchased more than $1 million in tickets.”
Does This Make Me Sound Insecure? The Linguistic Tics That Reveal Self-Doubt
“Like a scarlet sock in the load of white wash, insecurity has the irksome power to stain our speech and writing, interfering with the immaculate poise we’d like to project. Yet if you know what linguistic tics to look for, you can recognize self-doubt (and perhaps bleach the fuchsia from your pants before anyone notices).”
Self-Improvement, Original Sin, And The West’s Spiritual Crises
“Most people assume the western church shares the same creation story as Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians.” Not so: the doctrine of original sin is unique to Western Christianity. “The search for salvation from an inherently broken self has defined modernity as much as it did Christendom. The need for redemption has shaped the language of the market, technological innovation, advertising, politics and, most obviously, self-help movements. But what is new is for there to be so little consensus on how to find salvation.”
John Hurt On Acting Beckett’s Krapp
“I’ve always felt that Krapp is an autobiographical piece. You do feel, all the time, that it’s Sam saying, ‘There but for the grace of …’ For me it’s a kind of essay in aloneness – and an essay on self-deception, too, which Krapp is well aware of. He is like any addict. One side of him says ‘I shouldn’t do this’ and the other side says ‘But I’m going to – and what’s more you know I’m going to’.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.23.14
If “Creative Director” Title Fits A Museum, Why Not?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-24
Inventing an America
(How Kyle Gann would teach the history of the symphony in the U.S.)
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-07-23
Announcing Hothouse: Exploring new ideas in co-working with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
AJBlog: Speaker | Published 2014-07-23
What nonprofits are for
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-07-23
How Do Writers Make Their Living?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-07-23
Civil Rights Museum
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-07-23
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What Happened To Charlotte’s Brave Experimental Theatre?
“Was there really no alternative to euthanizing a company that had achieved so much over its 22-year history?”
What We Lose Of Books In E-Readers
“Regardless of their printed contents, books tell their own alternative stories, whether this be from smudges on the pages, or edges crinkled from a spilt drink; corners curled or margins dotted with sneaky annotations. Before self-service check-out systems, you could always tell how popular a library book was by how many pages were glued to the inside page, stamped with a list of past loan due dates.”
This Year’s Booker Prize Nominees (Americans Included)
“Thirteen novels were named on the longlist for the prize which for more than 40 years has rewarded only Commonwealth writers. The rules changed last year, sparking fears that it would quickly be dominated by Americans.”