“The 1000-capacity auditorium will have a rooftop dome, glass-covered walkway and outdoor terraces, under Sir David Chipperfield’s vision for the £45m IMPACT Centre, which could open by 2021. The complex, which will provide a long-awaited home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, is also expected to become a major new Edinburgh International Festival venue.” The IMPACT Centre “is expected to be open every day, attract more than 250,000 visitors each year and generate £25 million for the economy.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Shaw Festival Tries Every Way It Can To Engage Audiences Outside The Theatre
“[Artistic director Tim Carroll] points to the nearly endless number of meet-up opportunities: the post-show talkbacks, the cocktail hours, the classes and clubs, the pop-up patios, the escape rooms, the speakeasy jazz nights, and garden tours, some of which are for friends and members only, many of which are open to all. ‘I think all of that is as much part of the Shaw experience as coming to the shows,’ Carroll said. ‘People sign up for the whole ticket.'”
The Ways We Imagine Will Shakespeare’s Wife
And imagining her is what we do: we have next to no reliable evidence about Anne Hathaway. Over the last couple of centuries, she’s been cast as either the devoted wife-and-mother who kept the proverbial home fires burning in Stratford or the woman who got Will to knock her up and then drove him away to London. With the new century, though, new ways of picturing Hathaway have been popping up.
Little New Jersey Musical Goes Viral Out Of Nowhere And Ends Up Sold Out Off-Broadway
Be More Chill, a show about a high-school nerd who takes a mysterious drug (an actual “chill pill”) that makes him popular, got one professional production at a Jersey Shore theater in 2015, dropped a cast album on the streaming platforms, and disappeared. Two years later, young fans started discovering the show online; before the year was out, it had been listened to 150 million times on Spotify. So the creators got an off-Broadway production together – and its initial run sold out in a day.
YouTube Launches Meter To Tell You How Much Time You’ve Wasted On YouTube
“YouTube began rolling out its so-called digital wellbeing tools Monday morning, which include a dashboard that tells users how much time they’ve spent on the service watching videos. The Google-owned video service also recently launched a new feature that allows users to set reminders, alerting them when it’s time to take a break from binging.”
Carnegie Library Thefts Rattle Tightly-Knit World Of Antiquarian Booksellers
The arrests in July of a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh archivist and a dealer on charges of stealing and selling $8 million worth of items from the library’s collections “sent a shudder across the rare books industry, a multimillion-dollar business in the United States … In this niche world based on trust, where confidants are currency and handshake deals are commonplace, the arrest of a prominent dealer is a shocking suggestion of deceit.”
The Great Rare-Book Road-Trip Crime Spree Of 1980 (And Its Ignominious End)
A pair of thieves spent that summer driving from Texas to Maryland to Illinois, going into university libraries and cutting out lithographs and engravings from 19th-century naturalist journals and newsweeklies that they would sell piece by piece – until, at last, they were foiled by a foolhardy change of method and an air-conditioning maintenance man.
One Resignation, Two Suspensions At New York City Ballet For ‘Inappropriate Communications’
A statement released by the board chairman said the company “received a letter alleging inappropriate communications made via personal text and email by three [principal] members of the company. … [An investigation] determined that each man had violated the norms of conduct that New York City Ballet expects from its employees.” As a result, Chase Finlay has resigned, and Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro have been suspended without pay for the rest of 2018.
Visiting Art Museums Can Help Patients With Chronic Pain: Study
Researchers from UC-Davis “found that 57 percent of chronic-pain patients who attended a private hour-long tour” – branded as “Art Rx” – “of the galleries of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, reported a decrease in their pain levels up to three weeks after the tour. Most participants also generally reported feeling less socially disconnected, a common byproduct of chronic pain.”
Rotten Tomatoes Expands Pool Of Critics Who Count Toward Tomatometer
“The Tomatometer score is the percentage of the reviews that have been positive, supposedly reflecting the ‘collective opinion’ of critics, but critics have so far been limited to those who write for established publications, a group that, according to numerous studies, is heavily slanted toward critics who are white and male. Reviews from established publications will still be included automatically, regardless of who wrote them, but the new rules allow for the inclusion of individual critics, regardless of where they publish.”