Two principals and the artistic director of the Cairo Opera Ballet talk about the way factors such as the reactions of the audience, self-critique, and stage lighting affect their thinking process while onstage.
Month: November 2014
Why You Didn’t Get Called To Audition: A Director Explains
“With the best will in the world you cannot see everyone who applies or is submitted by their agent. Even on a fringe profit share production there are over 1,000 CVs to consider. … So how do you pick just 75 candidates?” Phil Wilmott explains how he does it – and he doesn’t like it any better than actors do.
CNN International Pulls Out Of Russia
“CNN said its English-language news channel would not be available after the end of the year ‘in light of recent changes in Russian media legislation’. Russia has banned advertising on cable and satellite channels, while also preventing foreign companies from owning more than 20 per cent of media outlets from 2016.”
Russia Launches Sputnik, A New International Radio/Internet News Network
“Russia launched a new state-funded foreign news service Monday to challenge the ‘aggressive propaganda’ of the West and provide an ‘alternative interpretation’ of global events. The new media brand, Sputnik, is the reworked foreign language service of the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency and Voice of Russia radio.”
Jerry Tallmer, 93, Theater Critic Who Founded The Obie Awards
“The Village Voice was a young paper and Mr. Tallmer its young theatre critic when, in 1955, he decided the burgeoning Off-Broadway scene south of 14th Street merited a practical response outside of weekly reviews. He hatched the idea of the Obie Awards, a downtown answer to the uptown Tonys.” He went on to spend 30 years at The New York Post.
The Mess At The Rome Opera
The house has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for years and had been threatened with closure more than once. Riccardo Muti, who had raised musical standards and electrified audiences at the company, walked away in September. Then management abruptly let go the entire orchestra and chorus. What’s behind all these problems?
Sendak Estate Sued By Philly Museum And Library Over Rare Books
“The executors of Maurice Sendak’s will have not complied with his wishes to bequeath his multimillion-dollar rare-book collection to the Rosenbach Museum and Library and for the revered author and illustrator’s work to continue to be displayed at the Rosenbach. So claims a lawsuit filed last week in northern Fairfield County, Conn., [by] the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia.”
Chutzpah In Action: The Landlord Who Painted Over New York’s Graffiti Mecca Will Keep Its Name For His New Condos
Jerry Wolkoff, owner of the famous 5Pointz buildings seen by countless people through the windows of the #7 subway train, insists that the name is his to use; he has even tried to trademark it.
Richard Florida Looks At The Rural Creative Class
“The upshot: Just as with the nation as a whole, rural geography is becoming more concentrated and spiky. The rural economy has the same fundamental drivers as the metro economy: access to knowledge institutions and the clustering and concentration of talent and skill. No longer can rural areas expect to prosper based just on natural amenities like ski mountains and national parks.”
The Women Tagging And Painting The Streets Of Bogotá
“[In Colombia’s capital], where graffiti is classified as a violation rather than a crime, street artists do not have to hide.” Here, three of the most active talk about the challenges of working as a street artist while female.