“When actresses were first allowed to perform publicly in England, they generally did not address the audience directly in a prologue or epilogue. As Sonia Massai notes in this anthology, when they did, their speeches stressed the ‘exceptional quality’ of the occasion.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Laptops Destroy Our Ability To Remember Our Notes
“The lightening-quick speed of typing encourages listeners to transcribe what they’re hearing without actually paying attention to what’s being said—a note-taking approach that has been proven ineffective.”
Spain Is Going On A Quest To Find The Remains Of ‘Don Quixote’ Author Cervantes
“Forensic scientists say the ground and walls of the oldest part of the convent would be the focus of the search, using ground-penetrating equipment to map objects under the earth.”
Hans Hollein, Architect Who Designed With A Sense Of Humor, Dies At 80
“It was entirely in character that Mr. Hollein made his worldwide reputation in the 1960s designing a shop, barely 12 feet wide, devoted to candles.”
The Prevalence Of The Word ‘California’ In World Literature Tells Us About Our Dreams
“It looks like a voiceprint, or a series of overlapping voiceprints, the residue of a conversation we’ve been having without ever really calculating it, from continent to continent and year to year.”
Did The Artistic Director Of Canada’s National Ballet Poach A Superstar From Stuttgart?
The Canadian McKie, “who turned 31 this month, was just a kid when he saw former National Ballet superstar Rex Harrington dance the title role in Onegin. It turned his attention from tap and jazz to ballet, which until then he’d thought of as ‘what the girls at my school did.'”
Essays Have A Newfound Popularity – Maybe Because Of Reality TV
Roxane Gay: “I think it’s very similar to why we watch reality television. We want to see people open themselves up and we want to see where they’ll take that openness.”
The Author Of ‘Wolf Hall’ On The Difference Between Novels And Theatre (And A Lot More)
“I am used to turning things over in the silence and privacy of my mind for hours and hours. In the theatre it is not like that. When you are in rehearsal and asked a question the answer has to come back immediately. I have made a profession of doubting myself, so it is something very new to be instinctive.”
NBC Jumps On The Amazon Studios ‘Open Submission’ Bandwagon
“If you can’t get yourself a TV-talent-lit agent because, a lot of times, you have no credits, you’ve got no means of getting through the wall of the networks. It’s nice that a network is giving at least another chance for someone to work around that conundrum.”
Were Producers Just Toying With Artists In ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’?
“Assured by producers that their jobs were safe, actors skipped auditions for other musicals. Band members signed apartment leases. Investors wrote more checks for the show.” And then it all imploded.