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The Fall’s First Blockbuster Is an 86-Year-Old Musical  Bloomberg.com Major ‘Wizard of Oz’ Profits Could Push Sphere to More Movie Reimaginings  The Hollywood Reporter No Courage, No Heart, No Brain  Defector Report: ‘The Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ taking in up to $2 million a day, could top $1 billion  San Francisco Chronicle ‘Wizard of Oz’ at Las Vegas’ Sphere feels more like a …

Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Love and Thunder) is set to produce a New York-bound stage musical-comedy about the ill-fated Fyre Festival and its creator Billy McFarland, with “Skyfall” songwriter Paul Epworth composing the score and The Pirates of Somalia director Bryan Buckley writing the book and directing. Announced today at a launch event on a barge anchored …

David Bowie’s final project prior to his death in 2016 was an 18th-century musical called The Spectator, a forthcoming extensive exhibition of Bowie’s archive at the V&A East Storehouse has revealed. The work was based around a daily newspaper of the same name that ran between 1711 and 1712, documenting the mores of society in London. Bowie’s notes reveal that …

Learning to play a musical instrument can protect your brain from aging, building up a defense against cognitive decline that lasts a lifetime. Researchers from Canada and China discovered older adults who had spent years playing music were better at understanding speech in noisy environments, like a crowded room, compared to those who didn’t play music. Their brains worked more like younger …

The Shaking Quakers might sound like a ’90s rock band from the state of Georgia but it’s actually an accurate description of the late 18th-century religious sect we now know simply as the Shakers. Contrary to the image presented by their immaculate furniture, the Shakers were quite a messy bunch, given to involuntary expressions of rapture, a very physical and …

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.  The New York Times Source link

Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers at the world’s biggest sporting event. Such was the lot of Rachael Gunn, AKA B-girl Raygun, who scored a memorable nul points for Australia at the Paris Olympics in 2024 with her routine topped off with …

Talia Suskauer and Max Chernin play Lucille and Leo Frank in the national tour of Parade, about a Jewish man falsely accused of murder in 1913. Parade ends its tour at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., amid a rise in antisemitic hate. Joan Marcus hide caption toggle caption Joan Marcus The national tour of Parade, a Tony Award-winning musical …

Your brain is never still. Each pulse of sound tweaks its wiring faster than a drummer can tap a snare. A fresh study pairs magnetoencephalography with a clever algorithm called FREQ-NESS to watch that rewiring happen live. Lead researchers Dr. Mattia Rosso and Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti from Aarhus University and the University of Oxford say the method lets them …

Published: Aug 5, 2025, 9:06 p.m. MDT Right outside Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, where he has just spent close to three hours on stage helping to tell Alexander Hamilton’s story through nonstop song and dance, Thayne Jasperson has a smile that won’t quit. The curtains of the sold-out “Hamilton” matinee on this Saturday closed just 30 minutes earlier, but Jasperson …