“The Long Wharf Theater in New Haven has replaced what it had billed as the ‘world premiere’ of the play Sophie’s Choice.” The script, by David Rintels, is said to be unready for production.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Frank Gehry Designing, For Free, New L.A. Jazz Venue
“Having designed L.A.’s signature space for classical music, Frank Gehry is on board to do the same for jazz – although his pro bono work on a new Culver City home for the Jazz Bakery would be on a much smaller scale than his downtown Walt Disney Concert Hall.”
Dancer Who Quit Royal Ballet Loses Right To Work In UK
“Ukrainian-born Sergei Polunin, 22, has had his work permit revoked following his surprise walkout last week.” The Royal Ballet “is legally required to alert the UK Border Agency as soon as any of its foreign dancers resign.”
Promising BC Choreographer, Saying He Can’t Get Funding, Quits Vancouver For New York
Joshua Beamish, now 24, founded his own company at age 17; the troupe has since performed in Toronto, Montreal and New York and represented Canada at the Shanghai World Expo. Yet Beamish says he has received only minimal funding from the BC Arts Council because it doesn’t see him as having a sufficient track record.
Philadelphia Orchestra Makes Progress In Its Money Struggle
“The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has made incremental but encouraging progress in the campaign to finance its reorganization and operations for several years beyond an expected exit from bankruptcy. But it still has a ‘mountain of money’ to raise.”
A Philip Glass 75th Birthday Party
The composer stops by for ice cream cake and conversation with his old friends at WNYC radio, where he talks about being parodied on South Park and how he beat the dreaded ninth-symphony curse.
Philip Glass On The Occupy Movement
“We’ve haven’t seen this since the Vietnam War years – there was a whole generation playing video games when we should have been on the streets. … I think that what they’re doing is the right thing – it was right when it was the 70s, it was right in the 60s, it’s always right.”
What’s Behind The Music In Shakespeare’s Words? His Grammar, Says Professor
“In a new study Dr Jonathan Hope, from Strathclyde University, compared Shakespeare’s work with playwrights including Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson.” Hope suggests that Shakespeare’s “real genius lay in the unique way he used grammar to construct sentences, adding a poetic element to English.”
Renaissance Bankers Of Florence, Hanging On Walls
“The recent ‘Money and Beauty’ exhibit, held in the majestic 15th-century Palazzo Strozzi, illustrated how Florentine merchants got around the Catholic Church’s ban on money-lending and bankrolled the Renaissance.”
Film Banned For Blasphemy Finally Cleared For UK Release
“The controversial short film Visions of Ecstasy has been given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC), after being denied one for 23 years and becoming the only film banned in Britain for ‘blasphemous libel’.”