While she is most revered for having seen to it that women’s rights were included in Japan’s postwar constitution, she was “one of the first people to bring traditional Asian performing arts to audiences throughout North America” – first at the Japan Society and then, for 20 years, at the Asia Society.
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Strange Story Of William Faulkner’s Only Children’s Book
The Wishing Tree “a sort of grimly whimsical morality tale, somewhere between Alice In Wonderland, Don Quixote, and To Kill a Mockingbird.” (It is also a rather egregious case of regifting.)
Ill-Starred Rebecca May Make It To Broadway In 2013
“The New York producer of the scandal-plagued musical Rebecca said on Wednesday that he would try to open the show later this year on Broadway, where a planned production fell apart this fall when several investors were revealed to be concoctions of a rainmaking middleman.”
How Theater Companies Market That Play About The Guy With The Hat
“The Mother****** With the Hat is a play that has a marketing challenge built directly into its title. How do you say a name that contains the mother of all obscenities? How do you use a title that can’t be printed in most newspapers? As it turns out, each theater company has its own way of coping.”
Behind The Scenes At The Royal Ballet’s Fairy-Tale Triptych
“The Royal’s latest Triple Bill, which features the Stravinsky/Fokine Firebird, Jerome Robbins’s In the Night and Act 3 of the Nureyev Raymonda, is being acclaimed as one of the company’s festive highlights – and not a piece of tinsel in sight. Photographer Tristram Kenton has been watching it come together behind the scenes.”
The Agony Of The Feet At New York City Ballet
Photographer Henry Leutwyler “doesn’t shy away from capturing the difficulties, rigor and pain that inform the life of a dancer, but he also offers a poetic glimpse of its beauty, the camaraderie of shared endeavor and the sheer joy of moving through space.”
Brazilian Conductor Beaten By Spanish Police In Alleged Racial Incident
Israel de França, a violinist in Granada’s main orchestra and a local conductor, alleges that he and a (white) friend were sitting in a Granada bar on Dec. 23 when he was detained by city police and beaten. The police department maintains that the bar’s owner called them about two patrons arguing noisily and that they addressed the situation without violence.
On Indian TV, Mothers-In-Law Are No Joke – They’re The Law
“Soap operas dominate prime time here and the mother-in-law reigns in almost all of them. However plucky the heroine or serpentine the plot, every love story seems to circle back to marriage and the many relatives who come with the words ‘I do’.”
After Three Years, Dallas’s AT&T Performing Arts Center Is Finally Operating In The Black
“For the first time, … the center wrapped up a fiscal year in the black – up $280,000 in net operational revenues when FY2012 came to a close at July’s end. The center, which released the numbers today following its annual audit, posted an operational loss of $3.3 million for FY2011.”
Revealing Choreography: Analyzing The New York State Exotic Dance Tax Case
“In the United States, should any government tax strip clubs where choreographed adult entertainment like exotic dancing is featured when it has a law providing a tax exemption for ‘live, dramatic, choreographic or musical performance,’ whether it is nonprofit or for profit? … The question at stake is who decides whether exotic dance, or any other dance genre, is a ‘choreographic’ performance.”