For the first time in memory there are no recently written dramas or comedies playing on Broadway. What does this say about the health of the city’s theater biz? New York Times
Month: December 1999
BROADWAY BOX OFFICE DOWN
Christmas week compared to last year as some shows raise ticket prices. Variety
NEW YORK “MOST” 99 THEATER LIST
Inside the New York theater world. CurtainUp
DEFINITELY WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
Twenty-five years after Vermeer’s “Guitar Player” was stolen from London’s Kenwood House, the mystery of its theft and mysterious return still remains unresolved. London Evening Standard
APPLY YOURSELF
The applied arts are thriving in Kyrgyzstan, when traditional crafts are incorporating new Western ideas. New York Times
BEST KEPT SECRET IN BRITISH ART
That’s how reclusive 80-year-old artist Prunella Clough was described. Earlier this year she won the prestigious £30,000 Jerwood Prize for Painting, and Clough described it as a reward “for a lifetime’s grafting.” True to her nature, she promptly gave the money away to struggling artists. She died Sunday. BBC
HIDDEN TREASURE
University of Sydney collection is one of the best in Australia, rich in the history of Australian art. Yet, most of its 2,500 pieces of art are hidden away or distributed among buildings the public never gets to see. Is this any way to treat a national treasure? Sydney Morning Herald
INTERNET STANDARD TIME?
Britain’s Tony Blair proposes that Greenwich Time be adopted as a standardized world electronic time. BBC
ARMY
Universal gives $100,000 to hard-core fans of Andy Kaufman to run their own rogue marketing campaign to promote movie about the comedian’s life. Washington Post
OF SHEEP AND DOGS
Millions of Brits will tune in this week to a throwback of a kinder gentler BBC program. “Strangely, it’s not boring,” said Paul Latham, spokesman for the Countryside Alliance, speaking fondly of a show in which spectacularly taciturn shepherds compete to see whose dog can most neatly herd some sheep into a pen. BBC