“It was, said the director, an Elizabethan atmosphere. People came and went throughout the play. There was chatter and laughter and crying babies. … Yet this was not the Globe theatre on the south bank of the Thames, but an open-air performance in the shadow of Israel’s concrete wall separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Who Was The First Scientist?
“Predictably there is little agreement, but popular candidates, such as Galileo, Archimedes and even Pythagoras, displayed many of the qualities now deemed essential in modern science.” One author now suggests that “this place in history belongs to little-known Greek philosopher Anaximander. ”
Rome Opera Threatens To Sue Over Fabio Luisi’s Skipping Out To The Met
The Italian conductor had to cancel a number of scheduled engagements to fill in for the ailing James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera. “Leading the queue of angry theatres is Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, which is threatening to sue the Met after scrambling to find a stand-in to conduct Richard Strauss’s Elektra on 30 September.”
The Richard Florida Theory Of Reality TV
“What he’s seen has led him to develop a working theory about the genre. It’s not just that a lot of the shows are set in suburbia – suburban life actually creates the appetite for them.”
Enough With The Modernist Additions To Historic Buildings And Districts!
“Much of the debate involves modernist architecture’s role in landmark settings of a traditional character. Preservation professionals often advocate modernist additions to these settings, while at the grass-roots level there is strong support for keeping the new work traditional.”
New Arts Centers Don’t Always Work Out As Planned
As Kansas City prepares to open the new Kauffman Center, Scott Cantrell looks at some of the new centers that did – and that didn’t – live up to their hometowns’ hopes.
UK Theatre Community Rallies For African Playwright Facing Deportation
Cameroonian playwright Lydia Besong, who has written three plays during her five years in Britain, and her husband have had their asylum application denied.
EU Extends Copyright Protection To 70 Years
“The European Union on Monday agreed to extend royalty protection for music performers and producers from 50 years to 70 years. … Thousands of European performers who recorded in the 1960s were on the point of losing airplay royalties, and suffering a subsequent loss of income.”
Norman Foster’s Planned Apple Headquarters A Retrograde ‘Cocoon,’ Says Critic
Christopher Hawthorne: “Though the planned building has a futuristic gleam … in many ways it is a doggedly old-fashioned proposal, recalling the 1943 Pentagon building as well as much of the suburban corporate architecture of the 1960s and ’70s.”
San Diego’s Arts Institutions Shut Down By Blackout
“Much of San Diego’s cultural life went dark during the [Sept. 8] outage, with restaurants, concert venues and playhouses shutting their doors. Only places with their own backup generators, like area casinos, kept the entertainment wheels turning.