arts and entertainment
Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
Read moreAugust Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ continues the playwright’s ‘American Century Cycle’
April 10, 2024King Hedley II is a tautly conceived, densely plotted play with six characters.
Read more‘Power & Light’ shows clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
April 4, 2024The play tracks more than half a century of inspiration and invention as we come to understand some of the intellectual processes that eventually took the world to the technological landscape we know today.
Read moreThe imperialist problem with ‘3 Body Problem’
April 3, 2024Netflix joins the cultural Cold War against China.
Read more‘The Bespoke Overcoat’: Gogol’s giggles, ghosts and class struggle
March 28, 2024A theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
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