“Where will we change costumes? Will we even fit into the costumes? Will we be believable? Will the audience be distracted and confused? It can be an uphill battle.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
As City Opera Comes To An End, What Its Famous Alumni Have To Say
“To the singers and musicians who make up the backbone of the company, it would mean a loss of performing traditions, the disappearance of another company that gives performers work, and farewells to colleagues who have grown close over the years.”
What’s The Value Of A Hatchet Job In Film Criticism?
“As wrong-headed as they may be, mean-spirited reductionist critiques can be really funny, particularly if served up in a pithy one-liner that pierces the heart of the movie and bursts its shimmering creative bubble.”
Will A National Latino Museum Be Derailed By An Immigration Museum?
“The two proposals are not precisely rivals, since Congress conceivably could OK both museums.” Riiiiiight.
Niche Docos – Some Of Them Quite Mediocre – Fill Theatres, But At What Cost?
“Such a spectacle seems torn from the feeble imaginings of some bygone science-fiction author: a doomy vision in which humanity – having lost all enthusiasm for human interaction – resolves to consume the splendours of the Earth exclusively through cinema screens.”
Soon-To-Be-Former-Mayor Michael Bloomberg Will Helm London Gallery
“Mr. Bloomberg has long eyed a return to the more global lifestyle he enjoyed in pre-political days, and London — where he has cultivated deep ties to Britain’s cultural and political elite — is a natural first stop.”
Bridget Jones Books Used To Be Fun, But Now There’s Death – And Fans Don’t Like It
Among many Tweets of outrage: “Saw the news about the Bridget jones sequel, it comes out on my birthday and Mark Darcy is DEAD!!!! Awful news #birthdayruined”
Marcella Hazan, 89, Author Who Made Italian Cooking At Home Common, And Wonderful, In The U.S.
“For all of her achievements — seven bestselling books and an army of fans who turned out for every cooking class — Hazan was an accidental cookbook writer.”
How To Head Off Labor Disputes? Turn Musicians Into Executives
“The arrival of a new breed of administrator intimately acquainted with the players and the music itself points to a potential change in climate.”
Some Artists Love To Destroy Things In The Name Of Creativity. Why?
“It is an unexpected act of fate that the rich and powerful become consigned to the dustbins of history, and it is a cheerful function of our spitefulness to apply the appropriate entropy to their bodies.”