“L.A.’s Antaeus Company will write a new, belated chapter in Coward’s artistic history on these shores: On Oct. 20 it will open Peace in Our Time, a 65-year-old drama that had not been staged in America until now.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Lost Beethoven Quartet Fragment To Get Modern Premiere
“A ‘lost’ Beethoven movement is to be performed for the first time in more than 200 years, after being pieced together from early drafts. Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his string quartet Opus 18 Number Two in 1799 before discarding it and composing another version a year later.”
Putting The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
“Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have partnered to launch a new website that allows the public the ability to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls in fine detail. The site provides searchable, high-resolution images of the scrolls, plus explanatory videos and background on the foundational texts.”
Slatkin In Talks To Extend At Detroit Symphony
“On the cusp of his fourth season as music director of the Detroit Symphony, Leonard Slatkin told the Free Press on Sunday that he has begun preliminary talks with DSO management to extend his contract beyond its current expiration at the end of the 2012-13 season.”
Landmark Frank Gehry House Reopens In New Location
“In architectural circles, the town of Owatonna, Minn. is best known for its extraordinary Louis Sullivan bank … Now, Owatonna is home to a second architectural jewel – a Frank Gehry-designed home, the Winton Guest House, which was originally built on in the suburbs of Minneapolis.”
Charles Askegard Looks Back At A Three-Decade Ballet Career
The retiring New York City Ballet principal (and Mr. Candace Bushnell) talks about rehearsing with Jerome Robbins, his departure from American Ballet Theater, and his parents letting go study in San Francisco when he was 12.
A Ballerina Looks At Edgar Degas
Royal Ballet principal Sarah Lamb: “He studied ballet technique carefully. By the time you get to Degas’s later paintings and sketches, you can see that his studies paid off. Some of his sketches are annotated with the names of positions we still use today … [and] his depiction of them is very accurate.”
Shakespeare’s Globe To Host Multilingual Shakespeare Festival For Olympiad
“British debuts from the national theatre companies of China, Israel, Bitola and Armenia are planned as part of the Globe to Globe festival next year, during which each of Shakespeare’s plays will be performed in a different language.”
Affirmative Acting: Company Casts Woman As Lear In Response To Equal Opportunity Complaint
“Melbourne Theatre Company, ordered in 2009 to address a gender imbalance in its productions, is to make King Lear a woman. Robyn Nevin, the great senior actress of the Australian stage, will play Shakespeare’s befuddled monarch at MTC next year.”
Manuscript Thief Jailed In London
“A university graduate who stole £36,000 of manuscripts by famous figures including Sir Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot has been jailed for 30 months.”