The blaze began on Sunday morning (Sept. 25) under the theatre’s stage; it damaged the stage floor and scenery for the upcoming, and now postponed, production of Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Construction Of The Philharmonie De Paris Cost Triple The Original Budget
When the concert hall was approved in 2006, the projected cost was €173.1 million; the final cost as of 2015 was €534.7 million, an overrun of 208%, according to a report from the regional auditors’ office for Ile-de-France. (in French; Google Translate version here)
Star Of UK’s Favorite Soap Fired For Anti-Indian Twitter Rant (He’s From Pakistan)
“[Marc Anwar joined the cast of Coronation Street] as Sharif Nazir in February 2014 as a member of the first Muslim family on the cobbles. The Sunday Mirror published screenshots of messages posted on his private Twitter account that appeared to hit out at India over Kashmir … They also referred to Indian people as [redacted].”
Fire Ravages Stockholm’s Royal Institute Of Art
“The institution, which focuses on the fine arts and architecture at the undergrad, grad, and post-grad level, is located near downtown Stockholm on Skeppsholmen island” next door to the city’s modern art museum. “The fire reportedly started on the fourth floor, and it quickly spread to the building’s attic and roof.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.26.16
Thinking and speaking
Most of us have been admonished from an early age to ‘think before you speak.’ But it turns out that speaking doesn’t work that way. … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-09-26
More inspiration from DePauw
Only one event at the seminal 21CMposium at DePauw University was in standard conference format — a panel discussion. That was deliberate, and was one reason the symposium was so powerful. … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-09-26
Boundaries
A recent discussion with my friend Robert Carl has me pondering the ways we think of epochs in art. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-09-26
African roots, Middle Eastern extensions in Hyde Park Jazz Fest
The two-day fest in the neighborhood soon to host Barack Obama’s presidential library focused on local performers familiar to Chicago’s south side audiences … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2016-09-26
Mike Zito: Keep Coming Back
After sideman work, then membership in cooperative groups with Cyrille Neville, Devon Allman and others, in 2012 the St. Louis blues guitarist and singer Mike Zito formed his band, The Wheel. Few dedicated jazz listeners … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-09-26
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Feel Lonely A Lot? It May Be Genetic
“A large new study published online last week in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology …finds that loneliness appears to be a ‘modestly heritable’ trait. A predisposition to feeling lonely may run in the family, in other words. But there’s a caveat here.”
TV – Even Peak TV – Does Not Work In A Film Festival
“Frankly, it felt weird to be watching TV at a film festival. A movie is a closed loop: it begins and an hour and a half or two or three hours later, it ends.”
Staging Death: A Brief History
From Sophocles through Roman spectacles and the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol to Sarah Kane, a look at the means – decorous, horrifying, inventive – playwrights, directors and stage managers have used to depict characters’ ends.
There’s No Need To Fret About Today’s Decline In ‘Proper’ Punctuation
“Punctuation started out as free and easy prosodic units, meant to help the reader read out loud to an audience with all the requisite intonation, tone, pitch and pauses intended by an absent author. … With the more speech-like IM, texts, tweets, punctuation is just getting back to its roots, as a way to convey prosodic and speech cues in the absence of sound and vision.”
The Trouble With Sombreros At Tequila Parties: Francine Prose On Lionel Shriver’s Cultural Appropriation Speech
“The topic is a complicated and sensitive one, and Shriver’s first mistake, I think, was to ignore that complexity and sensitivity by adopting a tone that ranged from jauntiness to mockery and contempt. … To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat.”