“Harriet Walter is to follow up playing Brutus in Julius Caesar by taking on Henry IV in the second of a trilogy of all-female Shakespeare productions staged by the Donmar Warehouse [in London].”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Amazon UK And Hachette Ramp Up Battle Over E-Book Profits
“The dispute has also dragged in JK Rowling and the best-selling American writer James Patterson, and broke into the open on Friday, when the world’s largest bookseller started turning the thumbscrew on the French-owned publisher.”
Massimo Vignelli, 83, Designer Who Created New York’s Subway Map
“[He was] an acclaimed graphic designer who gave shape to his spare, Modernist vision in book covers and shopping bags, furniture and corporate logos, even a church and a New York City subway map that enchanted aesthetes and baffled straphangers.”
Do We Really Have To Shut Down? Ask Musicians Of Wisconsin’s Green Bay Symphony
“Members of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra will talk among themselves in coming weeks to determine whether there’s any way to keep the 100-year-old organization alive beyond next season. At least two of the 70-plus musicians disagree with executive director Dan Linssen’s claim that orchestra can’t survive beyond next season.”
‘Small Army’ Of Conservators Volunteer To Restore Glasgow School Of Art
“Conservators from the UK and abroad answered a social media call for help from within 24 hours of the blaze that destroyed the school’s famous art nouveau library. The volunteers include managers and coordinators, conservators trained in disaster response, archivists, conservators of paper, paintings, textiles and stone.”
Violinists Forbidden To Board Flight With Their Instruments – And Turn (Of Course) To Social Media
Indianapolis Symphony concertmaster Zach DePue and colleague Nick Kendall, two-thirds of the group Time for Three, were denied boarding on a US Airways Express flight out of Charlotte after flight staff refused to allow them to bring their instruments as carry-ons. Left on the tarmac, they made a video and posted it to YouTube; naturally it went viral.
Why Do We (Or Should We) Stick To A Seven-Day Week?
The day, the month, and the year all have clear and obvious bases in nature, but the “pattern of living on a seven-day cycle – with one or two of those days set aside for rest – is a relative novelty. Only in the past few centuries, with Western colonization of most of the world, have the majority of human societies adopted it.”
Boston Ballet Names New Executive Director
Meredith (Max) Hodges “succeeds Barry Hughson, who left the company in January to become executive director of the National Ballet of Canada. Hodges is currently executive director of Gallim Dance, a New York-based contemporary dance company.”
River Phoenix’s Last Film Will Finally Be Released After More Than Twenty Years
“[He] was just 23 when he died of a drug overdose. At the time, he was about 80 percent through the arduous production of Dark Blood … [The film’s producers] released a trailer today, confirming that the film will, over two decades after its production, finally see a release.”
The Horrendous Upbringing That Edward St. Aubyn Spun Into Finely Honed Fiction
“St. Aubyn is seen to have done something remarkable with his balance of wretchedness and wit. … He is fifty-four and the father of two, and has the air of someone who is puzzled, and rather impressed, to find that he is not dead.”