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PERFORMING ARTS

From a Wedding to a School in 90 Seconds: Backstage Magic at the Met

The New York Times

The EGOT Winner Behind Sondheim’s Signature Sound

The New York Times

Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit At A Time

The New York Times

With a Mess of Fabrics, Broadway’s Costume Shops Return to Work

The New York Times

Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked

The New York Times

No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void.

The New York Times

How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age

The New York Times

Performing Off Broadway, While Driving Off Broadway

The New Yorker

TELEVISION & FILM

How Miss Piggy Went From Minor Muppet to TV’s Top Hog

The New York Times

It Took Screenwriter David Koepp 42 Tries to Get Steven Spielberg’s New Movie Right

Vanity Fair

Why Lisa Simpson Matters

Vanity Fair

What the Hell Was Bartmania?

Vulture

The Science (And Scientists) Behind ‘Ant-Man’

The New York Times

The Story of the DuckTales Theme

Vanity Fair

How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Other-Worldly Sounds of ‘Dune’

The New York Times

Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’

The New York Times

In ‘Toy Story 4,’ the Animators Pulling the Strings Reveal Woody’s Inner Life

The New York Times

Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic

Vanity Fair

The Young Man and the Sea Sponge

Longreads

“Just a Concoction of Nonsense”: The Oral History of ‘A Fish Called Wanda’

Vanity Fair

‘Hey Arnold!’ at 30

Los Angeles Times

The Post-Suite Life Life of Dylan Sprouse

Vulture

MUSIC

The Never-Ending Life of Smash Mouth’s “All Star”

The Ringer

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Richard Tognetti maintains his daredevilry

The Saturday Paper

John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores

The New York Times

Ben Folds’s latest project pays homage to Gershwin, ‘the Elton John of his day’

The Guardian

TECHNOLOGY

Spotify Builds a Music Experience for Children

The Wall Street Journal

Hearing Loss? A New Device Lets You Hear Sound

The Wall Street Journal

How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O

The New York Times

The Game-Changing Tech Behind Gemini Man’s ‘Young’ Will Smith

WIRED

TRAVEL

Holidaying in War Zones: Intrepid or Irresponsible?

Good Weekend

VIDEO GAMES

He Made 500 Hours of Puzzles to Explode Your Mind

The New York Times

The Role-Playing Game That Predicted The Future

The Atlantic

‘The Last of Us Part II’ and its Crisis-Strewn Path to Release

WIRED

Game Over, Uwe Boll

Vanity Fair

The Unbearable Lightness of ‘Animal Crossing’

WIRED

THE INTERNET

Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ehrmagerd Girl

Vanity Fair

Poppy is Dead; Long Live Poppy

Vanity Fair

ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Central Park During the Pandemic

Hazlitt

As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’

The New York Times

This is Not an Opera House

The Monthly

Keeping Broadway’s Golden Age Alive with Restoration Architect Francesca Russo

Broadway.com