In this speech, delivered at last year’s Theatre Communications Groups national conference, the pioneer of verbatim theatre recounts the time she moderated an onstage debate between August Wilson and Robert Brustein (which organizers had wanted to turn into a verbal boxing match), performs excerpts from her Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education (about the “school-to-prison pipeline”), and channels Margaret Mead and James Baldwin.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Art Forger Who Made £30,000 From His Fakes Ordered To Repay £1
Richard Pearson … was jailed in January for selling 14 faked drawings and pictures … he claimed were by the renowned ‘pitman painter’ Norman Cornish … to a gallery in Northumberland. He admitted fraud and forgery charges and was sentenced to three years and seven months.”
Big Band Contractor Sends Out Fat-Shaming Memo, Gets Pushback – And Promptly Shuts Down
On Tuesday, two singers released a memo from Sheraton Cadwell Group, a Toronto firm that contracts and manages big bands, that read in part, “As per our highly selective casting requirements … only singers who are physically fit and slim (or at the very least, those who know how to dress strategically/suitably in order to not bring attention to their temporary physical/dietary indulgences) would be showcased with our boutique orchestras.” On Wednesday, word of the memo hit the media. By Thursday, Sheraton Cadwell was out of business.
Yes, It IS Possible To Build New Ballet Audiences In 2017
Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Colorado Ballet have all done it, and Ashley Rivers gives a look at the strategies they’ve used.
Some Artists Are Abandoning Dealers And Selling Directly To Collectors
“A number of emerging artists are … bypassing their dealers in a quest for a greater share of the earnings, a need for quick pocket-change, or the desire to test their e-commerce earning potential. These artists often position their sales as a critique of how the art market functions; taken together, they suggest a growing dissatisfaction with the traditional gallery sales model.”
The Industries Whose Money Drives The Art Market In The 2010s
“Artsy analyzed two sample cohorts of the world’s top collectors to see how the industry make-up behind the most elite collectors has changed over the last two decades. The big takeaways? Finance is in, really in. ‘Other’ – a designation we used for lawyers, doctors, architects, and individuals who didn’t fit into the most highly represented categories – is out.”
Bea Wain, 100, Last Of The Big-Band Era ‘Girl Singers’
“[She] started singing on the radio at age 6, became a hit-making pop vocalist” – “Deep Purple,” “Heart and Soul,” “Kiss the Boys Goodbye” – “in the late 1930s and performed into her ninth decade.”
In Provincetown, Listening For What Marks Some Pop Music As ‘Gay’
“‘Edge of Glory’ is gay music? But plenty of straight people love that song.’ When a bewildered straight friend said that to musicologist Chris White about the Lady Gaga hit, he was struck. “The musical gayness that is so obvious to me is invisible to him. I wonder whether there are reliable characteristics of music that can make a song obviously appeal to my particular sexual expression, while still ‘passing’ for mainstream music. What makes music sound gay to me? So, I took an audio recorder to Provincetown to record how places would signal this particular kind of gayness through particular kinds of music.”
Mark Merlis, Whose Fiction Explored Gay Male Life In 20th-Century America, Dead At 67
“With [American Studies] and the three [books] that followed, Mr. Merlis was widely praised for the sensitivity with which he addressed such themes as the corrosive effect of shame and the intersecting paths of past and present.” His An Arrow’s Flight was voted by the LGBT industry organization Publishing Triangle as one of the best gay novels of all time.
Trove Of Previously Untranslated Medieval World Literature Goes Online
The initial offerings of Stanford’s Global Medieval Sourcebook “range from a 15th-century song translated from Middle French that bemoans a lost love … to five selections from Hong Mai’s 12th-century Yijian Zhi, a sprawling 420-chapter chronicle that is an invaluable record of society, spirituality, and culture of the Southern Song Dynasty. The GMS is, as suggested by its title, a globally focused resource, with plans for medieval texts translated from Arabic, Chinese, Old Spanish, Latin, Middle High German, Old English, and Old French.”