Meant in part as a counterpoint to New York’s wildly popular High Line, and conceived by architect and “urban archaeologist” James Ramsey, the Lowline (if it really does get built) will be a landscaped public space reclaimed out of a derelict three-block-long underground trolley terminal on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Tag: 10.22.15
Sesame Street’s First Autistic Character Is A Big Deal, Yes – But Maybe Not For The Reasons You Think
Inclusiveness? Teaching kids to accept difference? Sesame Street has always done that. “Put simply: in 2015, everyone has heard of autism. Sesame Street did not have to do much explaining about why Julia is different (and the same), and why she was joining the cast.” This was not always the case …
John Cameron Mitchell’s Journey From Reaganite To Punk Queen
“As Hedwig prepares a national tour, its creator talks with our editors about the show’s genesis, ’90s New York, and socialist project management.”
The London Underground Is Touting What Might Be The Worst Poetry Ever Written
“Like the lingering fart of a fat dog, it is impossible to ignore the poetry on the London Underground. There is something mind-numbingly awful about the posters that sit insultingly in trains and on the walls of Tube platforms. This city deserves better poetry because it would be impossible for its current batch to be any worse.”
What Do Westerners Think Africa Looks Like? The Lagos Photo Festival May Change Everyone’s Mind
“‘There is hardly any photojournalism work this year,’ the festival curator, Cristina de Middel, said. ‘And that’s because the classical documentary approach to storytelling on the continent is exhausted.'”
Dear Smartphone Users: You Are Psychotic Scroll Jockeys
“I realize that I am swimming against the tide of history here. But if I can ask a question that we may have overlooked in our rush to take advantage of everything that’s available to us in this new world, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?”
Why City Theatre Ecologies (Like Chicago) Need Long-running, Populist Musicals
“Bus tours want to plan in advance, actors needs casts that rotate, backstage staffers need gigs they can count on
How Tony-Winning ‘Fun Home’ Changed As It Moved Up And Up In The Theatre World
When a musical upgrades, everything – from furniture to lighting and even to tossing away some musical numbers and adding more – has to change.
Novelist Anthony Marra Interviews The Comedian Behind @GuyInYourMFA
“Marra: Can you describe that moment you realized your own extraordinary talent?
“Guy: I can actually remember quite clearly. I was in fourth grade, and we were asked to write about our summer vacations. I wrote mine entirely in the second person and without punctuation.”
Yelp Reviews Of The Broad Museum Are Comedy Gold
“It is housed next to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a funky white structure that people either love or hate (me, I’m sipping on the haterade). There’s artwork by Murakami, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein — basically, all of the T-shirt graphics at UNIQLO.”