After parting ways with SHN, a producing firm that brought touring Broadway shows to the city, Carole Shorenstein Hays has taken over the Curran and begun restoration work. Work on the 1,650-seat house should be complete in 2017; meanwhile, Shorenstein Hays will present a series of non-traditional works in the building.
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Isn’t Perfect, But Folks Seem To Love It
“Given all this controversy [among researchers], you might think people would treat the test as just a curiosity, or at least take it with a grain of salt. Instead, many people use types as a schema for understanding the world. There are blogs that sort Disney characters into MBTI types and YouTube sketch videos that compare types. According to CPP, a company that administrates the MBTI, college and universities worldwide use the test, as do 89 of the Fortune 100 companies.”
The Persuasive Power Of Repeated Falsehoods (Goebbels Was Right)
“Statements you’ve heard many times are easier to process, and this ease leads people ‘to the sometimes false conclusion that they are more truthful,’ the researchers write. Their key – and disheartening – revelation is that they found examples of this unfortunate dynamic ‘even when participants knew better.'”
Cleveland Ballet Comes Back To Stage After 15-Year Hiatus
“Should the new Cleveland Ballet now taking shape succeed and endure, it will mark not only the third official use of that name, but also the beginning of a potentially glorious age: the return of professional ballet to Northeast Ohio after a gap of nearly 15 years.”
Seven Decades Into His Career, George S. Irving Is Still Acting At 92
The first of his 33 Broadway shows was the original Oklahoma!, he acted under directors Gower Champion and John Gielgud and opposite acting legends Vivien Leigh and Liv Ullmann, and he got a death threat for his performance as Richard Nixon in a Gore Vidal satire.
Frank D. Gilroy, 89, Playwright Of ‘The Subject Was Roses’
The 1964 Broadway hit won a Tony and a Pulitzer. “But for Mr. Gilroy, who wrote more than 30 other plays, Roses was his only major theatrical success. And while he wrote the screenplays for 10 feature films (some of which he also produced or directed); three novels; and scores of adventures, westerns and dramas in the golden age of television, none had the impact of his first and only Broadway hit.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.17.15
John Perreault, 78
As many of you will now know, the author of this blog, John Perreault, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 6. I first got to know John in the late 1990s when he came to … read more
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Images within Images within Images
Wayne McGregor’s Tree of Codes turns the Park Avenue Armory into a 21st-century phantasmagoric playground. read more
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Remember that one time, when I blogged?
It’s been a long, long while since I posted to this blog. For those who were annoyed by that, apologies. For those who didn’t notice, hello. Truth is, I’ve been doing other things. … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2015-09-17
Hyperrealism: Chamber Music from Mars
You may not have heard of Noah Creshevsky (born 1945), but he is, and has been for decades, one of the most amazing figures in current American music. His music, all electronic as far as … read more
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Carnegie Hall Chairman To Step Down After Accusing CEO And Board Of Bad Governance
Less than a day after the leak of an email in which board chair Ronald Perelman said that executive and artistic director Clive Gillinson had shown “a troubling lack of transparency” and that the Board of Directors was failing to provide “appropriate oversight,” Perelman told the board’s executive committee he would not stand for re-election next month.
Battle Between Carnegie Hall’s New Chairman And Longtime CEO Over ‘Transparency’
In an email sent to other board members, Ronald O. Perelman, the famously combative finance executive who became Carnegie’s chairman in February, said there was “a troubling lack of transparency and openness in the way [executive director] Clive Gillinson was interacting with me and the Board.”
Why Singapore Censored An All-Male ‘Importance Of Being Earnest’
The company W!ld Rice was by no means the first to cast a man as Lady Bracknell, but Gwendolyn and Cicely were played by men, too – and not in drag. “The play was transformed into a homoromantic comedy – a love letter to same-sex marriage.” This fell afoul of section 377A of Singapore’s penal code – the same “gross indecency” law under which Oscar Wilde himself was sent to prison.