Jeremy Fassler

Journalists spent the better part of a decade protecting her, coddling her, encouraging her to write gossip and call it “news,” no matter what her critics said. And now she has become the embodiment of one of the most vile, hackneyed clichés in the book.

Six Flags Entertainment and Cedar Fair’s proposed “merger of equals” would eliminate close competition between the theme park operators in three metropolitan areas—an outcome that’s the likely focus of DOJ’s antitrust review of the $8 billion deal, according to a Capitol Forum analysis.

If every institution is endowed with the broken parts of its creator, whether we want them to be or not, then Brustein’s A.R.T. and Yale Rep embodied both his love of theatre, and the prejudice by which he only allowed a certain kind of art to thrive within those walls.

Dmitry Krymov, one of Russia’s most eminent directors, is among the dozens of artists who have left their homeland since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Clean hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) are two technologies that can potentially move the needle by reducing emissions in so-called hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation, shipping, and road freight. If they’re effectively deployed either separately or together, the technologies could reduce emissions by more than 50 percent by 2070, according to Deloitte,.

The 90 winners of the Best Animated Short Oscar are a microcosm of the history of world animation. From some ambitious misfires to timeless classics that help define the medium, here is an attempt to rank every cartoon to win.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91, presided over period of artistic freedom in the U.S.S.R. that had not been seen since the post-Revolutionary era. Russian culture flourished under his leadership, particularly in the theater, in which he took an active interest. But unlike other Soviet leaders, Gorbachev did not make himself the arbiter of which plays could and could not be performed. He was more fan than censor.

In Deadwood, David Milch embraced theatricality in a way no other TV show has before or since.

Both Jeremy Scahill and MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan have been criticized by some political scientists and ex-diplomats for downplaying Milosević’s crimes against humanity to frame NATO as little more than a defender of Western imperialism. Not only does this narrative ignore the reasons for NATO’s intervention in the Balkans, but it’s a dishonest way of trying to convince the public that NATO shouldn’t intervene in Ukraine.

When Succession won the SAG Award for Best Ensemble last month, Brian Cox used his time onstage to speak about one of the many ripple effects of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, explaining how artists and performers in Russia “are told under pain of high treason that they cannot say a word about Ukraine.” Following his speech, Cox spoke to Vulture and offered some more details about his love of Russia, his disdain for Putin, and supporting artists in times of crisis.

By the end of the first episode, when Logan learns Kendall got Lisa on his side and he says he’s going “full fucking beast,” we know who has the upper hand. And there’s gonna be blood on the floor before this season is done.

“A stage manager is like a conductor,” said Lisa Porter, who over a 25-year career has worked on shows at the Public Theater and the La Jolla Playhouse, among others. “We conduct the tempo and the tone of rehearsals throughout the entire process. “That’s why,” she added, “I believe fluency around antiracism is so important.”

In 1970, Bella Abzug took on an incumbent Democratic Congressman––and won. A tough Jewish lawyer raised in the Bronx, Bella would become one of the icons of second-wave feminism, passing laws that changed the lives of men and women. 50 years after she first ran for Congress, Bella has had a resurgence. In the past few years there have been plays, movies, and TV shows about her life. Why does she still spark such fascination today? How did she rise to power so quickly? And why didn’t she stay in power longer? All we’ll say for now is that everyone we interviewed for this podcast couldn’t stop talking as soon as we said the words “Bella Abzug.”

In early October, Kris Kobach, Kansas’ former Secretary of State, and Daniel Drake, a Wichita-based venture capitalist-turned-CEO, made a sales pitch to Kansas legislators. The duo wheeled in what looked to lawmakers like a “refrigerator” — a shiny metal box Drake called a “revolutionary” device that would “kill COVID” and bring “several hundred jobs back to Wichita.”

Ellyn Marie Marsh was getting ready to appear in a new off-Broadway musical last year when the pandemic struck, theaters were shut and her work evaporated. Those months of lost wages carried another cost that only became clear much later: She did not get enough work to qualify to keep the health insurance she had been getting as a member of Actors’ Equity. She is far from alone.

The first Saturday of every other month, Xochitl Mayo arrives at the Tank in midtown Manhattan at 8 a.m. with a team of writers who pitch comedy sketches to her. Between 3 and 4, they read sketches. From 4 to 5, they cast actors. From 5 to 9, they rehearse. 9:30 to 10:30 is tech, after which the audience enters the theater. By 11 p.m., Who Made the Potato Salad?, a sketch-comedy show created entirely by people of color, goes live.