Clapping is a behavior so deeply rooted in human beings it’s almost an instinct. You can see babies and toddlers clapping just because everybody else is, and if you’ve ever felt the pressure to be ...

Yale’s 2015 Commencement on May 18 began in far-flung corners of the campus, as groups of soon-to-be graduates milled about, adjusting their gowns and mortarboards, asking friends for help with their ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "I stand here waiting / For you to bang the gong," begins the 80s ...

YouTube deserves a round of applause — because the video platform can now include [APPLAUSE] and other sound effects in a video’s closed captions automatically. The caption expansion, announced on ...

Diane Warren‘s songwriting job for Tell It Like a Woman was simple: create a hymn for female empowerment. “We tend to beat ourselves up a lot,” the veteran tune scribe said during a panel at ...

Primitive though they may be, given just a simple audio recording of a single handclap, is it possible to determine the hand-configuration of the clapper via a computer-assisted digital analysis of ...

The hills were alive with “The Sound of Music” this past weekend in the Immaculata Hall Auditorium at Saint Mary’s as the Elementary School Drama Program presented three consecutive performances of ...