Robots are generally presumed to be coming for our manual jobs, but lately it seems that even more creative endeavors aren’t safe from automation. Shimon the robot is a marimba-mashing musical maestro ...

Musical Robot, a two-person band, and pop-up artist Carter put a cybernetic twist on a sing-along standby, and the results are a blast (a laser beam blast, to be precise). A smiling cast of robots ...

It’s sci-fi meets rom-com: “Her,” “The Last Five Years,” “50 First Dates,” and “Hadestown” combined, with some hints of “Black Mirror.” Plus, there’s a classic road trip and some great “robots ...

Composing legend Hans Zimmer was the top individual winner at the 15th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards ceremony held Wednesday night, with three wins. The film “Emilia Pérez” also picked up ...

Marcus Choi, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Darren Criss of the Broadway musical "Maybe Happy Ending," photographed at the Belasco Theater in New York. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times) A line in "Maybe ...

Dazzling and developed it may be — musically, visually and technically — but Robot Song is conceptually woolly. Who, precisely, is the show for? Kids are unlikely to feel much sympathy for the ...

Composer Rob Simonsen ("Deadpool & Wolverine," "Ghostbusters: Afterlife") put his love of sci-fi and synth sounds to good use on his animated debut score for Pixar's "Elio." He was also inspired to ...

Musical robotics is a rapidly growing field, with dozens of new works appearing in the past half decade. This paper explores the foundations of the discipline and how, due to the ability of musical ...

Are we human, or are we… robots? “Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question — or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it means to be ...

A line in "Maybe Happy Ending" describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. "They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months." ...