“Theatre Royal Stratford East is to produce a festival of 30 performances that will take place at the homes of London residents this autumn. … All shows will be staged simultaneously on October 26 and will be filmed and then broadcast at Theatre Royal Stratford East on November 9, as well as online.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Pantages Theatre In L.A. Looks To Sell Naming Rights
The Nederlander Organization, owner of the landmark venue “which has served as a movie palace, hosted the Academy Awards and is now a plush venue for touring Broadway shows … is offering naming rights for sale.”
Why Did Ghosts Start Appearing in 19th-Century New York State?
“For some reason, the spirits started appearing in the middle of the 19th century and mostly around Seneca Lake in western New York.” By the 1870s, towns like Auburn and Moravia were meccas of the Spiritualist movement.
2000 Years Of The History Of Philosophy In Two (Enormous) Diagrams
“Ohio State professor of philosophy Kevin Scharp is a Linnaean taxonomist of thought, compiling charts, ‘Information Boxes,’ and hand-drawn diagrams of the ‘Sociology of Philosophy'” into two 4′ x 44’ charts, one from 600 BC to 600 AD and the other from 600 to 1935.
Christie’s Gets Slammed For Sniffing Around Detroit Institute’s Art
“Art critics and online commentators are blasting Christie’s, the New York-based auction house, for possibly angling for a piece of the action should the Detroit Institute of Arts have to sell part of its collection to satisfy creditors in the city’s bankruptcy.”
Alleged Bolshoi Acid Attack Mastermind Gets Final Indictment
“Lead dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, who is accused of masterminding the acid attack that left the company’s artistic director, Sergei Filin, with third-degree burns on his face and possible loss of his eyesight, has been presented with a final indictment, police said. Dmitrichenko and two accomplices are charged with acting as a group to commit grievous bodily harm.”
Embattled President Of American Academy Of Arts And Sciences To Resign
Leslie Cohen Berlowitz “has been on paid administrative leave since early June, following reports that she had falsely claimed, on several grant applications and other documents, to have a doctorate.”
Remember When Sex And The City Was Considered Excellent Television? (How Quickly We Forget)
“Even as The Sopranos has ascended to TV’s Mt. Olympus, the reputation of Sex and the City has shrunk and faded, like some tragic dry-clean-only dress tossed into a decade-long hot cycle. … But Sex and the City, too, was once one of HBO’s flagship shows. It was the peer of The Sopranos, albeit in a different tone and in a different milieu, deconstructing a different genre.”
Conservatories Add Entrepreneurship Classes To Mandatory Curriculum
“When we started offering these classes, music was being taught using a model that had not changed for seventy, eighty, 100 years. … But the world has changed, and many of us felt that there was no point in preparing our students for 1950s careers.”
Fifty Years Of Fighting Over Sylvia Plath
“It has been a half-century since her suicide, an anniversary marked by the publication this year of several books. ‘The blood jet is poetry,’ she wrote, ‘There is no stopping it’ – lines from ‘Kindness’ that capture the implacability of her verse. And there has been no stopping the Plath polemics these past 50 years.”