“Since Shakespeare’s time, greasepaint-loving taverns across the city have adapted their spare rooms to host performances for patrons who like to catch a show or two without moving too far from their favorite bar taps. A permanent fringe movement, this eclectic pub-theater scene thrives, with Londoners and savvy visitors regularly squeezing into 50-seat studios for dramas, comedies, musicals and even operas.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
US Congressman Submits Bill To Defund Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial
“Last week Rob Bishop [R-Utah] introduced legislation seeking to reject the current design by Gehry … and invite new proposals for the memorial while eliminating $100 million of future funding.”
Let’s Dispense With These Myths About Ballet Once And For All, Shall We?
It’s frou-frou. It makes no sense. It’s intimidating. It’s just boring. Stephanie Merry debunks them one by one.
Veronica Mars Raises $2 Million On Kickstarter In Just Ten Hours
“It’s the fastest growing Kickstarter ever, hitting $1 million in just over four hours.” (Well, for now – the previous record was set just last week.)
New Jersey Symphony Gives Up Concerts In Trenton
“The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has been bringing classical music to Trenton for 30 years, but because of dwindling audiences at the War Memorial, it will no longer hold its concert series in the capital city, symphony officials said.”
Ed Asner Hospitalized For ‘Exhaustion’ After Falling Ill Mid-Performance
“The 83-year-old actor … was 15 minutes into a performance of his one-man show, FDR, in Gary, Ind., when he started struggling with his lines and left the stage disorientated with paramedics at his side, according to news reports.”
A New Weapon In Bookstores’ Struggle Against Amazon
“War is said to be the mother of invention – and in the increasingly bitter battleground of publishing, bookshops have a new weapon.” Authors are providing extra material available only with books purchased in brick-and-mortar stores.
Dueling Court Filings Reveal Drama Behind Collapsed Broadway Rebecca
The producers are suing the former publicist for scaring off investors; the publicist is “arguing that he simply warned a potential investor that its producers had fallen prey to a fraud scheme.”
Australia’s Arts Funding To Get Healthy Boost Under New National Cultural Policy
“Should Simon Crean’s Creative Australia scheme pass unchanged through parliament, the federal arts funding agency will receive a 9 per cent fillip to its annual allocation. This announcement makes it the largest beneficiary of the government’s four-year $235 million vision announced yesterday.”
A Brief History Of Cultural Policy In Australia
“Although many countries have a ministry for culture or a grant-giving body such as the Australia Council for the Arts, a guiding document for cultural development is less common. It’s something we share with the tiny island-state of Malta and few others.”