The Tonys Delay Nomination Announcements Due to Broadway ‘Challenges’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Days after the Tony Awards presented theirstrict no-slap policy, they announced another striking development. The Tonys will push back their nominations announcement from May 3 to May 9. However, the curse ofMacbethis not limited to the confines of the Longacre Theatre. Related Tags:

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 58 words · Jacqueline Bryant

The Venice Biennale, Without the Russians

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres something missing in Venice this week. Ive noticed no Russians. This hardly marks the first time that any nation has found itself cut out of the Biennale. In 2022, those shocks are emanating straight from Ukraine. Damien Hirsts contribution toDefending, a Ukrainian flag dotted with butterflies). The question for us was, can you make art after Bucha?...

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 148 words · Carla Mills MD

Trevor Noah Dares You to Name One CNN+ Show

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The monthlong digital venture by Warner Bros. Discovery announced its imminent closure this week, and Noah thinks he knows what went wrong. Yall dont know any CNN+ shows. Spoiler: It is (was?) Meanwhile, Roy Wood Jr. thinks they should have given CNN+ more time to flourish. Or explode with even greater fanfare, whichever. Related Tags:

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 70 words · Nathan Reeves

Allison Ponthier’s 6 Steps to a Buzzy Single

Oh, you like podcasts? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Allison Ponthier knows the hardest part of making anything is getting started. I come up with like a million different song concepts. Like, recently Ive just really wanted to make a song about not being able to drive. Autopilot was not called Autopilot. When I wrote it down, this pitch was called Cant Drive, which is a way worse title....

April 21, 2022 · 2 min · 325 words · Brian Clarke

AtlantaRecap: For Them, by Them

Atlanta Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This week, Earn, Al, Darius, and Van (shes back!) We want to apologize to the community properly with your help, the designer tells Al. The art of apology hinges on the authentic address. Before these concerns emerge, however, Al and Darius initially relish in the spoils of corporate courting. Unlike Al and Darius, Earn is visibly uncomfortable with the deal....

April 21, 2022 · 2 min · 379 words · Angela Francis

Aziz Ansari’sBeing MortalSuspends Production Over Reported Complaint Against Bill Murray

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. After reviewing the circumstances, it has been decided that production cannot continue at this time. The complaint did not involve director Aziz Ansari orSeth Rogen who is also set to star in the movie. Filming ofBeing Mortalbegan on March 28 with a tentative 2023 release date. Representatives for Searchlight stated that they could not comment on ongoing investigations....

April 21, 2022 · 1 min · 76 words · Alan Garcia

Black-ishWas No Televised Revolution

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Everything thats great,and everything thats stiff, aboutBlack-ishis present at the start. Dre was raised in Compton, but his children are Sherman Oaks blue bloods. He takes it personally when they come off bougie and detached from any real sense of struggle. Not Black-ish,but Black. It made a mint prodding viewers to take inventory of their own closely held misconceptions about Blackness....

April 21, 2022 · 3 min · 622 words · Megan Bell

Can Mariah Carey Teach Me How to Sing?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thankfully, I learned this before I showed up at anAmerican Idolaudition, as the dream had once been. Sitting on my own couch, I once again realized Id never be able to do the same. Its really difficult for me to explain. I dont fault Carey for any of this. (There was also a requisite tie-in to her2021 memoir,The Meaning of Mariah Carey....

April 21, 2022 · 1 min · 94 words · Elizabeth Palmer

Craig Robinson Has Long Trained for His Moment As No. 1

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. For a moment, Darryl and, in turn, Craig Robinson were considered. Though some opportunities have come and gone (like his short-lived, semi-autobiographicalMr. Robinson), he takes the status and power of being the top guy seriously. Most recently, he is No. 1 onKilling It, Peacocks new snake-killing, American Dream comedy. it’s possible for you to read an excerpt from the transcript or listen to the full episode below....

April 21, 2022 · 3 min · 577 words · Michele Myers

Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton, Dead at 74

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Cynthia Albritton, most famously known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, has died. Born in 1947, Albritton got started on her unique vocation while studying in art school. Well make a cast of it. Working with her friend Diana Plaster Caster, Cynthias first big get was Jimi Hendrix. Her portfolio, um, enlarged enough by the 1970s to garner the attention of Frank Zappa....

April 21, 2022 · 1 min · 92 words · Jacob Johnston

GaslitHas No Use for Heroes

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Gaslitcan be a little simplistic about that latter point, with the cutesy logline Watergate was wrong. The similarly backward-lookingWinning Timeat least knows thatthe way to tell the story of excess is to be excessive. Gaslitmesses a bit with fact and fiction, but doesnt make any significant thematic swerves. (Shell have the same reaction to hisRonald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicinevinyl....

April 21, 2022 · 1 min · 99 words · Joseph Hopkins

In Martin McDonagh’sHangmen, Cruelty Provides the Muse

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Martin McDonaghsHangmenseems like a revival. But there are also creaks and groans down in the thriller structure itself. You know this place; the whole thing reeks of stale beer. Theres a character inHangmenwho is hurt when an accomplice calls him creepy. Menacing.Not creepy, he insists, creepily, which is McDonagh in a bloodstained nutshell. This seems to have turned his attention to the publics secret, fascist heart....

April 21, 2022 · 2 min · 372 words · Patricia Brown

Internet Hoaxes, Insurrectionists, and 7 More Podcasts Worth Trying

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. May the basketball gods bless us with seven games of Grizz-Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards, he has risen. Anyway, as always, tell me what youre listening to. you’ve got the option to reach me atnicholas.quah@nymag.comor find meon Twitter. Will Be Wild Trump, Inc.meets the American insurrection. I was skeptical, said Ilya Marritz when I spoke to him and Andrea Bernstein earlier this week....

April 21, 2022 · 3 min · 477 words · Benjamin Price