arts and culture – Page 84

Series, series everywhere with no audience spared: What’s new in fall streaming

September 8, 2021 By Dennis Broe

If not the largest, it’s certainly “the most important” television festival in the world.

Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all

August 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.

Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates

August 2, 2021 By Dennis Broe

What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.

‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

July 23, 2021 By Anthony Mangos

Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.

Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage

July 22, 2021 By Dennis Broe

Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.