8 things Gen Z sees as burnout that Boomers & Gen X just call having a job

stylegirlfriend.com: A 24-year-old and a 56-year-old describe the same Wednesday. The younger one says it was brutal. Back-to-back calls, a manager who wanted a revision, a Slack message at 6:40 that she answered from the couch. She uses the word burnout twice before she gets to what happened after work. The older one says it was Wednesday.

How to build a culture of innovation

Fast Company: Every company wants to be innovative. Most approach this by trying to hire highly creative specialists or by spinning up a new “innovation” team. But companies that consistently innovate do something different: They build company-wide systems focused on customer solutions and make innovation part of everyday business.

Noh theater struggles to survive the pandemic

The Japan Times: Kennosuke Nakamori’s sonorous voice fills a small room as he practices the lines of a traditional noh play, even though he hasn’t performed before a live audience in months.

He moves gracefully as he rehearses the studied movements associated with the ancient art, but his serene exterior belies deep worries about the future of noh.

#MeToo anniversary: Activists changed the culture; now change the laws

www.usatoday.com: A year into the #MeToo movement, I am both impressed and surprised by the progress our country has made in recognizing sexual harassment and assault for what they are: crimes. The past 12 months have shifted this conversation 180 degrees in terms of visibility and the recognition that abuse is everywhere.

Foreign Actors On Mexico's Theater Stage Stir Resentment Behind The Scenes

NPR: At the Metropolitan Theatrical Awards in Mexico City, actresses in sequined floor length gowns and actors in tuxedos ranging from the debonair to the eccentric, walk the red carpet striking poses for photographers on a recent Tuesday evening at the historic Teatro de la Ciudad.

It is an unusual place for tensions over immigration and cultural identity.

New study finds no significant improvement in film inclusion over past decade

ThinkProgress: The numbers are in. The numbers are abysmal. The most appalling findings are detailed helpfully in all-caps, like a presidential missive about how YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES: “NO PROGRESS FOR FEMALES ON SCREEN IN FILM IN OVER A DECADE.”

The Riz Test Talks Muslim Representation

The Mary Sue: The Bechdel Test. The Duvernay Test. The Mako Mori Test. There are a variety of tests out there to measure a film’s worth in terms of diversity and representation, and now we can add a new one to the list: the Riz Test. Posited by a group of film buffs, the test is designed to measure Muslim representation in film and television using a simple list of stereotyped traits, ranging from the character being seen as irrationally angry to having oppressive views on gender dynamics.

The Rise of Artistic Censorship on College Campuses Should Worry the American Public

Artsy: Artistic freedom protects high and low art alike; notions of “good taste” and artistic worthiness are the realm of the artist or curator, not the bureaucrat. But at a number of American universities, controversy has been acting as the curator, leading to the degradation of both freedom of speech and students’ ability to interact with challenging artwork.

For theater community, finding ways to reflect societal diversity onstage is more urgent than ever

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Theater is often at its best and most powerful when it says to those who feel overlooked, misunderstood or invisible: You are seen.

Of course, theater doesn’t always manage to do that — either for audiences or for artists. For a form that can be so welcoming to fresh viewpoints and voices, it also has a traditionalist streak that in some quarters can serve to perpetuate (even unconsciously) dated ideas and attitudes.

A Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish Review: As directed by Joel Grey, A shtik naches

New York Theater: Those who doubted that a Yiddish-language production of “A Fiddler on the Roof,” directed by Joel Grey, would turn out to be a great joy (“a shtik naches”) might react to Jackie Hoffman’s performance as a revelation.

A ‘Fiddler’ In Yiddish — The Way It Ought To Be

The Forward: Barely two years after Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” made its groundbreaking 1949 debut, a Yiddish production starring — and translated by — Joseph Buloff opened in Brooklyn, with Miller’s blessing. The title of a review by George Ross in Commentary described it as “‘Death of a Salesman’ in the Original,” and the witty proposition, along with the debate over its aptness, has stuck with the play ever since, (and was tested beautifully in a Yiddish-language production in New York in 2015.)

Theatre shuts out the working class. I’m devastated to think of the voices silenced

Mish Grigor | Stage | The Guardian: In 2015, I made a theatre show, The Talk, about my working class family and their working class sex lives. I interviewed them about their sexual histories, and edited their stories into verbatim scenes that I get audiences to read.

Opinion | Dave Eggers: A Cultural Vacuum in Trump’s White House

The New York Times: This White House has been, and is likely to remain, home to the first presidency in American history that is almost completely devoid of culture. In the 17 months that Donald Trump has been in office, he has hosted only a few artists of any kind. One was the gun fetishist Ted Nugent. Another was Kid Rock. They went together (and with Sarah Palin). Neither performed.

Thea Case Studies Day 2018

InPark Magazine: Each session of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) 2018 Thea Case Studies Day on April 6, showcased a project honored the following evening at the annual TEA Thea Awards Gala (April 7), and paid respect to an existing culture – be it a real community or a fictional place.

'Black People in the Future' billboard in East Liberty is still not back up

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: At the beginning of a community conversation Wednesday about the removal of the “There Are Black People in the Future” billboard in East Liberty, moderator Janera Solomon cautioned that those coming to the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater looking for clear answers likely would be disappointed.

On the question of what will become of the billboard, that certainly was the case.

Carnegie Mellon University hosts 'Talking Black in America' Pittsburgh premiere

TribLIVE: "Talking Black in America: The Story of African American Language," is the first feature-length documentary devoted to African American speech, and attempts to remedy misconceptions and resulting marginalization, according to a news release.

The film will have its Pittsburgh premiere at 4 p.m. April 11 in Carnegie Mellon University's Rashid Auditorium.

Inside the World of Virginia’s Roadside Attraction King

Atlas Obscura: Imagine winding down the switchbacks of a rural mountain road into the tiny town of Buena Vista, Virginia. You glide down sleepy Main Street, passing renovated Victorian-style homes and small businesses, when suddenly you spot three eight-foot-long ants affixed to the facade of an old three-story brick building. Blinking, you spy giant cartoonish grasshoppers peering down from nearby fire escapes and rooftops. A mosquito clinging to a pharmacy sign. A giant spider perched in a park tree. A praying mantis gazing at the doors of a church.

Anna Deavere Smith: The First Time a White Person Wrote ‘Love’ to Me

The New York Times: In 1961, there was a widely held theory among educated Baltimore Negroes, many of whom, like my mother, were teachers or administrators themselves, that if you wanted your children to have a good public school education, you should send them to a school that was predominantly Jewish, because Jews valued learning. And so I was sent not to the brand-new junior high that was built to service Negro students who were in desperate need of a better facility, but to Garrison Junior High in the Forest Park neighborhood, from which gentile whites had fled when the Jewish population moved in. I wasn’t “bused,” but I had to take two buses to get there.

Leonardo da Vinci: How to See the World Like Nobody Else

medium.com/personal-growth: In late 2017, Salvator Mundi, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, sold for $450.3 million.

For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that’s quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn’t even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity.

The Religion of Black Panther's Jabari Tribe Raises Questions About Cultural Appropriation

io9.gizmodo.com: The moment you first lay eyes on Black Panther’s Wakanda, you can immediately see the care and attention to detail that went into realizing the fictional nation’s diverse array of cultures. They blend elements of the fantastical with actual African iconography, languages, and tradition. But certain religious aspects have raised eyebrows.