🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Musicals,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Southwark Playhouse,Folk music,Country,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MMost of the music of Central Appalachia—the mountainous region connecting Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas—derives from the Scots-Irish people who settled there. It was Ulster immigrants, who passed on their loud tunes and sad sing-alongs, who gave the United States some of its first versions of country music.Composer Finn Anderson and director Tania Azevedo use that journey to tell a musical story across generations. Our starting point is New York couple Sarah and Alex moving into their new home…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Brian May,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,US news,ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Queen guitarist Brian May has ruled out touring the US for the foreseeable future, due to the potential danger it would pose.Speaking to the Daily Mail, the 78-year-old said: “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account."It's very sad because I feel like Quinn grew up in America and we love her, but it's not the same anymore. Everyone thinks twice about going there…
🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Time Traveler's Wife,The Time Traveler's Wife,Audrey Niffenegger,Books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A sequel to Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" is scheduled to be published this fall.Life Outside the System, which Niffenegger worked on for 13 years, is set in the same world as the original novel. The Time Traveler's Wife has sold more than 9 million copies worldwide since its publication, and was made into a 2009 film starring Rachel McAdams, as well as an HBO series and a musical.The new book -…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Star Wars,The Mandalorian,Taika Waititi,Culture,Television & radio,Science fiction and fantasy films,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars was a real movie that people watched. It drew people to movie theaters in droves, largely because it wasn't entirely embarrassed by being an exciting space adventure about comical wizards and laser swords. Nowadays, it is something else entirely. A TV show about a lovable alien dad and his cute, telekinetic adopted alien son, or perhaps a divisive culture war…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Melania Trump,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MThe audience was booked with Melania for lunch on Friday at a retail park on the outskirts of Bristol, inside a large cinema that appears to have been bulldozed and emptied in preparation. When Brett Ratner's controversial Amazon-backed documentary was screened at the White House last weekend, the guest list included Mike Tyson, Queen Rania of Jordan and the president himself. Today it's just me in the room and Melania on the screen. It makes the relationship more intimate and exclusive.This…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Catherine O'Hara,Schitt's Creek,Film,US news,US television,Culture,Television,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Catherine O'Hara, the actress known for Schitt's Creek, Home Alone and Best Show, has died at the age of 71.Her manager confirmed the news to Variety magazine. She died after a short illness.O'Hara began her comedy career in the 1970s and helped create the Canadian sketch show SCTV. She entered the world of film in the 1980s with her first big screen credit in the romantic comedy Nothing Personal with Donald Sutherland, and in 1985 she…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Shakespeare's Globe,Tim Crouch,The Tempest ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: T“The Tempest” seems like the quintessential Shakespearean drama for the empiricist. It is all about artifice, after all, and questions the construction of art as illusion through Prospero's cruel magic. So a pairing with experimental writer, actor and director Tim Crouch seems like a natural fit. Or rather unnatural because this haunting, high-concept production so comprehensively underscores its artifice.It so emphatically breaks the fourth wall that the drama becomes so full of messages about theatre, the act of watching…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film,Melania Trump,Culture,US politics,Donald Trump 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: She has no friends except everyone who works on dresses like herMelania seems to live a completely airless life, gliding alone around the gilded corridors in silence, David Lynch-style, watched by heavy lips. All her employees dress out of respect for her, mostly black, but sometimes — as in the case of her interior designer — in a matching camel-colored three-piece suit. Candidates interviewing for supporting roles also got the memo, lining up in a sea of monochrome, with…
✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A doll-headed figure plays with a multi-colored fidget spinner, high above the stage. Three men - masked and armed - crawled forward, grabbed him, cut his throat and dragged him away.It's a brutal beginning to a brutal opera. This flashback is the brainchild of director Richard Jones (in his 2016 Royal Opera production, revived for a second time by Ben Mills, we see it replayed twice more as an episode that haunts the protagonist), but the overriding atmosphere is Mussorgsky's. Based…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The White Lotus,Television & radio,Culture,France,World news,Steve Coogan,Helena Bonham Carter,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWill it be a deadly pétanque attack under the palms of the umbrella? Some pool tricks in a €21,000-per-night private villa? Maybe a poisoned cocktail on the balcony overlooking luxury yachts in the Mediterranean?Bienvenue For the fourth season of The White Lotus on the Côte d'Azur; Judging by previous series, someone didn't make it out of the French Riviera alive.Saint-Tropez is preparing to roll out the red carpet for perhaps the most promiscuous group…
