For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry. Watch the video…
Strouse, so far, has written the score to over 30 musicals, including Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, and just published his memoir, Put On A Happy Face. He talks about his work and life in this profile. Watch the video.
For some reason effects are fine in movies, but to many theater fans, technology still feels like a new gimmick. Read more…
On Sunday, June 15th, the American Theater Wing handed out the 2008 Tony Awards. Below, Thirteen takes a closer look at some of the winners.
This week, Reel 13 featured films about a million-dollar wager, a suspicious wife, and a dysfunctional robot. You voted. Now find out which film won.
Mitton’s train creations started on Shining Time Station on PBS in 1989, but his experience in creating models for film and tv went back to the 60s, as he worked on British cult favorite Thunderbirds. He had retired from working on Thomas a few years ago. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, produced for British [...]
If you doubt the importance of YouTube in how music gets heard and performed these days, consider a recent case: the Cistercian Abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz, in Austria.
Watts in South Central L.A. can be considered the epicenter of Los Angeles’ working class history — a microcosm of America’s dramatic demographic shifts. It is a neighborhood that has endured the most daring tests of the city’s turbulent history, an area demonized by some and cherished profoundly by others.
Why does contemporary art cost so much money? What roles do narcissism and trophy-gathering play? Is the current boom truly unprecedented? How did Ai Weiwei become more valuable than Tiepolo? Watch here….
