Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider teen spy novels and some Sherlock Holmes and James Bond sequels, and whose comedy Dinner with Saddam had a less-than-successful run at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in 2015, went on quite the rant at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Hal Prince To Recreate Original ‘Evita’ Production For World Tour
The staging makes its debut in October in Johannesburg, followed (so far) by runs in Cape Town, Tokyo, and Sydney, where Opera Australia will present it at the Opera House. Prince is said to be ‘determined’ to bring the project to Broadway, though no such arrangements have been announced.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.15.17
The Board’s Role in Community Engagement: Part II
Last time I presented the first part of a discussion about the potential for boards as positive resources for community engagement. Here is the rest of the text. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-08-15
Monday Recommendation: Chet Baker Biography Revised
Jeroen de Valk: Chet Baker, His Life And Music (Aspekt)
de Valk has revised his 2000 biography of the trumpeter. The new version includes … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-08-15
Karaoke, And The Technology That Makes It Possible: A History
The phenomenon dates all the way back to the 1970s and 8-track tape players, and initially people did it at home as well as at bars.
We May Be On The Verge Of Having Real Sex Robots – And That Could Be Fantastic Or, Well, Problematic
“There are a lot of sweeping statements about the idea that having robots available could mitigate human trafficking, or exploitation of children by pedophiles. … But how do you prove it? How are you going to run tests, which heads of child trafficking operations are we going to have fill in a questionnaire for us on whether or not use of a robot would help them?” Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, talks with Quartz.
‘Imagine If Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs And David Lynch Decided To Open An Industrial Nightclub’
That’s what the lead singer says about David T. Little’s next opera, Artaud in the Black Lodge (yes, it’s a Twin Peaks reference), whose first part is getting a concert premiere in Los Angeles. (By the way, David Lynch has, in fact, opened a nightclub.)
Surveying The State Of Russian Theatre At The Country’s National Performing Arts Festival/Competition
“That fearlessness on the part of Russian theatre artists has led to an increase in audiences, including that most coveted of demographics: the under-40 set. One had only to look at the audience at Gogol Center, where I saw Kafka on a Saturday night.” Diep Tran visits the Golden Mask Festival, where Russia’s top companies present their best work of the season over two months, at the end of which a jury awards a Russian national equivalent of the Tonys or Oliviers.
Meeting The Real-Life Diplomat At The Heart Of The ‘M. Butterfly’ Story
Stage director Vincent Lancisi and his wife were vacationing in France a couple months before he was to begin work on a revival of David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play. One day, their guide/driver casually said, “I was a driver for a famous man. There is a movie about him with Jeremy Irons, called M. Butterfly.” Within an hour, Lancisi was on the phone with Bernard Boursicot; within a month, he and his lead actor were visiting Boursicot at his nursing home in Brittany.”
Here’s The World’s Blackest Pigment That Working Artists Can Actually Buy And Use
Singularity Black absorbs just a bit less light than Vantablack, whose creation was announced last year. But the makers of Vantablack (notoriously) sold exclusive rights to its use to sculptor Anish Kapoor, and it’s not even in a fully usable form yet, while Singularity Black is already available for purchase by any interested customer.
The Jookin’ Swan: A Street-Dance Take On Pavlova’s Legendary Ballet Solo
Gia Kourlas offers a step-by-step analysis (with plenty of GIFs) of Lil uck’s revamp of The Dying Swan: “This eloquent combination of jookin’ – a Memphis-born style that relies heavily on footwork and comes from the Gangsta Walk – and Camille Saint-Saëns’s wistful strings gives the sensation that Buck is levitating.”