The company is giving three full-length Shakespeare plays one performance each with a start time of 11:59pm. The shows are aimed at fellow theatre professionals, who can come and watch after their own performances that evening are finished.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Amazon Finally Installs Air Conditioning In Its Warehouses
Nine months after embarrassing press reports that summer temperatures in some of its facilities were so high that emergency medical technicians had to be kept at the ready, the e-commerce giant is spending $52 million to install air conditioning in its US warehouses.
Lar Lubovitch Links Dance With Quantum Physics
“I recently asked students at a course I was giving to help me define dance [and] the one we arrived at that stood out, especially in this context, was that dance is a vibration of the spirit, that stirs the body to move when music is being played. By that definition, it is not unreasonable to conclude that if the quantum universe is made of music then we are all dancing right now.”
Asparagus, The Opera
Last month at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, chef Jason Bond and composer Ben Houge (best known for video game music) presented Food Opera: Four Asparagus Compositions, in which Houge tried to explore in music the flavors and textures of the asparagus dishes Bond served. (No voices in this opera, though.)
Corcoran Gallery Considers Leaving Its Historic Building – And Maybe Even DC
“After more than a century of occupying a handsome Beaux-Arts building at one of Washington’s high-profile addresses, on 17th Street NW across from the White House, the Corcoran Gallery of Art” – mired in longstanding financial troubles – “is considering a move to another neighborhood, possibly even to Maryland or Virginia.”
Is A Split Mission At The Heart Of The Corcoran’s Troubles?
“Few marriages have the potential to be as uneasy as that between an art museum and an art school. … Behind the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s controversial decision Monday to consider moving … is a bold gambit to thrive in a national cultural landscape where it has been much more common for museums and art schools to fall out of love and go their separate ways.”
Or Are The Corcoran’s Problems Mostly About Its Leadership?
Philip Kennicott: “[Museum insiders] acknowledged years of erratic leadership, and a board of directors that has flailed about from crisis to crisis. … These things don’t just demoralize staff, they create the toxic sense of a rudderless institution, which makes deep-pocketed supporters ‘run for the hills,’ in the words of one observer.”
Johannesburg Set To Build Africa’s Tallest Skyscraper
“The structure, part of a development known as Centurion Symbio-City, will soar to 447 metres, or 110 storeys, more than double the Carlton Centre – and higher than the Empire State Building. It would become the 14th-tallest freestanding structure on the planet.”
London Library Emptied In Middle Of Night Could Be Saved
“The leader of Brent council in north London said they had agreed to sit down with local people who have been campaigning to save Kensal Rise library for more than a year and work with them over their proposal to run it at no ongoing cost to the local authority.”
Julie Taymor Vs. Spider-Man Case Is Now In Court
Though the actual trial of the director’s lawsuit against the producers of the Broadway musical from which she was fired is scheduled to begin next year, “a judge presided over a two-hour preliminary hearing on Friday during which lawyers for both sides spelled out their cases.”