Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Playwright Adam Hughes: “It seems that a lot of venues and organisations only want diversity when it’s visible and they can clearly highlight the ‘changes’ they are m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Peter Conrad: “Shakespeare’s history plays about feudal England and republican Rome have become a nightmare from which the present is trying to awake. Tory plotters against the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
“Nederlander of San Francisco, which operates that city’s Orpheum and Golden Gate theaters, this week asked a judge to prevent an ally-turned-rival, the producer Carole Shorenste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]As A.O. Scott once noted of the man behind Welcome to the Dollhouse and Wiener-Dog, “We don’t turn to Mr. Solondz for warm affirmations of human decency.” Elisabeth Vincent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]When Anna Bergmann became the director of the playhouse at the Badisches State Theater in the German city of Karlsruhe, “her first major decision … was downright radical: Tired o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
With the much-talked about London revival of the musical now arriving on Broadway, reporter Sopan Deb talks to director Marianne Elliott, co-producer Chris Harper, and star Rosalie Craig abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]“A decade ago, posters advertising glamorous theatrical productions lined Rue Pavée, a main road in [Port-au-Prince,] Haiti’s capital city. Local theatre was on the rise here un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
“Critics often fall back on neat phrases to gesture at flaws they’re reluctant to spell out, or to wave impotently at a whole mass of ideas that would take a PhD thesis to explor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Ilya Vett, who has worked fabricating and maintaining the masks and puppets for the hit show for at least a decade, was found by New York police in the Minskoff Theatre prop room, producing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
“Circus using performing animals, now restricted in 43 different countries, is dying out. It has been replaced by three different sub-genres, according to Brisbane Festival artistic di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 leads the list, well ahead of the runner-up, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat. Female playwrights lead males on the list by three to one, and, with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]With his A Doll’s House, Part 2 the most-produced play, Lucas Hnath leads the list (excluding Shakespeare, of course) with 33 productions, edging out last season’s leader, Lauren…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]A group of 40 Welsh writers and theatre artists has written an open letter to the company’s chairman, arguing that NTW is not producing enough work " only two productions are currently…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
Q: “You’ve said the theatre was in trouble [when you arrived in 1986]. How did you save it?” A: “It was about stabilizing the programming. I don’t think there w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
"The fictional children of the past frolicked on the heather-clad slopes of Kirrin Island or battled the armies of evil at Hogwarts, free from the restrictions of their parents. Today, accor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Every so often, ... Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, fire off a number of thoughtful memos to the movie industry and the industry-adjacent. These messages are largely ignored, which does not …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AM[SHARE]"By the mid-1950s, the civil rights movement in the US had become a major international news story. People were horrified by the brutality of Emmett Till's lynching in 1955, and by the mob v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]The final court decision in the famous "monkey selfie" case reaffirmed that animals have no IP rights under U.S. law, which requires human authorship. For now, the same is true for any works…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]With her husband Eugene, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and for decades after his death, she gave millions to educational, civic, and cultural groups, including virtually every major visua…
SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News at 09:54AM[SHARE]It was know as the Laff Box, and it was mocked up - jerry-rigged, almost - by mechancial engineer Charlie Douglass. You've heard it on everything from The Munsters and Gilligan's Island to C…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]"France's city centers are about to get one of the biggest makeovers in their history. Following an announcement last month, the country is launching a vast €5 billion ($6.1 billion) p…
SOURCE: www.citylab.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The Swedish Academy ... announc[ed] Friday that the prize will not be handed out this year, on the grounds that the academy is in no shape to pick a winner after a string of sex abuse alleg…
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Mrs. Provensen, who also wrote several picture books, worked for 40 years alongside her husband, Martin Provensen, illustrating such works as The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, The F…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48AM[SHARE]"With outposts and partnerships either launched or pending in Metz, Málaga, Brussels, the Gulf, Shanghai and possibly Latin America, ... the Pompidou's president, Serge Lasvignes, is bold…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]"The art masterpiece in question - Flesh and Spirit, a 12-by-12-foot painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat - is just days away from the auction block. It is a prized asset of the estate of [Huber…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Like Bollywood, Polish cinema has flourished" - with some titles even making the weekly top 10 at the box office - "in UK multiplexes rather than arthouses, without any help from the Britis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2018
"Some of the best known lurid 'facts' about Jayne Mansfield, the American film star of the '50s and '60s, are based on rumour. So the directors of a new documentary about her short and scand…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The truth is that it took a long time for e-books to 'arrive'; Amazon was far from first. There, admittedly, was a comfort level that had to be worked out with the electronic book, which ga…
SOURCE: tedium.co at 01:06PM[SHARE]"Major event" exhibitions like the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors show and the traveling David Bowie Is show "achieve two important goals for any museum: They increase attendance, and they in…
SOURCE: slate.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]"A growing body of research shows that innovative businesses are common in rural areas, and rural innovation gets a boost from the arts." Richard Florida digests the data.
SOURCE: www.citylab.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]"A little more than a year ago, New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova announced that she was diving into the world of professional poker as a new player, all for the purpose of writing a book ab…
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