‘The Shepherd of the Hills’ has been running for 63 years and is the most performed outdoor drama in the U.S.
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Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss the town’s formula of spectacle meets story.
A statue of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Moscow.
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If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see.
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Is music the best medium to respond to traumatic events like the COVID-19 pandemic? A recent history of such pieces suggests maybe not.
Alexis Sanchez celebrates Arsenal beating Chelsea in the 2017 FA Cup final.
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World soccer is the story of hyper-capitalism. What would fan and revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon have thought about the state of the sport?