“The troubled Toronto-based Ritchies Auctioneers has been pushed into bankruptcy by its landlord, who is claiming the 42-year-old company is indebted to her for nearly $131,000.” Court documents say Ritchies owes its one secured creditor about $300,000, while unsecured claims total “at least $1.5-million.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Boston Public Schools Get $750K Grant For Arts
“The district will be receiving a $750,000 grant from the Wallace Foundation,” which “will help the district develop a strategy for rolling out more arts programs, and it could lead to a larger donation to implement more programs.”
James Levine’s Return To Podium Is Delayed
“Originally expected to return from back surgery last week, Levine will now miss the complete cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies that he had programmed and the BSO had promoted enthusiastically.” Former New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel will fill in for him at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Off-Screen Odds Have Narrowed For Women In Indie Film
“While prospects for women in the independent film world are rosier than for studio films, the number of females employed in key behind-the-scenes roles in both low- and high-budget movies remains piddling. In fact, [a new] study showed, the number of female directors and cinematographers actually has declined over the past decade.”
Hundreds Of Visitors Show Up To Closed Ulster Museum
Newly refurbished, the Ulster Museum is welcoming the public after a three-year closure, and “more than 16,000 people filed through its doors since the grand re-opening last Thursday.” Hundreds more showed up yesterday, when the museum was closed, as it always is on Mondays.
Indian Movies A Growing Niche For U.S. Cinemas
“As the Indian film industry has mushroomed — surpassing Hollywood as the most prolific producer of movies — distributors of Bollywood and regional Indian films have been eager to broaden their global appeal, especially in the U.S., which accounts for as much as 70% of their movies’ foreign box office.”
Ian McKellen Says Coming Out Was Key To His Success
“The belief among some in his field that opportunities automatically get narrower after such candor is to him mythology. ‘I’m living proof the opposite is true. You get more self-confidence. You don’t have that bit of dishonesty,’ he says, adding that acting ‘is about disguise. But it’s not about lying.'”
Reacting To Rift, Joyce Stagehands Join IATSE
Joyce Theater stagehands voted yesterday to join the “powerful union” that “struck Broadway in 2007 and negotiated a contract at Carnegie Hall that resulted in a props supervisor earning $530,044 last year.” Now Joyce executive director Linda Shelton says she’s “concerned that some dance companies won’t be able to afford us anymore.”
Downloadable Theatre’s Biggest Surprise: It’s Good
“When I visited Digital Theatre’s Soho office, I was glumly expecting the usual deadness of the filmed stage performance. What I got was something quite new. Thanks to the editing and the multiple points of view, you feel inside the piece in a way that compensates for the loss of that flesh-and-blood thing.”
Urban Dance: If You Teach It, They Will Come
Undergrads who pursue the University of East London’s urban dance degree — an anomaly in the UK — are taught “not just hip-hop styles like krumping, popping and locking, but also the fundamentals of African dance, capoeira and kathak.” Purists sneer, but the program’s “popularity is booming.”