“The president of the American Lyric Theater, led a discussion with the capacity audience, whom he invited first to give short statements about the work they had just heard. One listener described the score as ‘a vivid smear of humanity against a mechanical background.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Does A New Show Perpetuate Stereotypes – Or Take Away Their Sting?
“Honestly, my first reaction was not unlike the blowback we’re getting,” Ortiz said. “I understand where people are coming from because, as a Latina and being in this business as long as I have, I was like ‘Really? Devious Maids? What, are we all going to be called Maria?”
Some Rules For Public Plazas And Parks (They May Be Changing)
“A beer garden made out of freight containers on an empty plot turns out to be a lot more popular and better for a city than a sad corporate atrium with a few cafe tables and a long list of don’ts on the wall.”
Like Other States, Minnesota Splays Its Money Before Hollywood
“The state’s new Film Production Jobs Program, known as Snowbate, has been voted into law. Minnesota lawmakers recently agreed to increase annual funding for the rebate program to $10 million from $500,000.”
‘New’ Eudora Welty Story Reveals Her Anger After Death Of Medgar Evers
“I ain’t ask Governor Barnett to give me one thing. Unless he wants to give me a pat on the back for the trouble I went to this morning. But he don’t have to if he don’t want to. I done what I done for my own pure-D satisfaction.”
Chilean Government Orders Investigation Into Alleged Killer Of Pablo Neruda
“Price’s description of a blond, blue eyed, tall man, matches Michael Townley, the CIA double agent who worked with Chilean secret police under Pinochet. Townley was taken into the U.S. witness protection program after acknowledging having killed prominent Pinochet critics in Washington and Buenos Aires.”
A Money-Back Guarantee Could Create Space For Exploration
“Offering a money-back guarantee isn’t the same as a theatre apologising for a show, and it may well help to build audiences and encourage a taste for more ambitious productions.”
When Planners Bestrode The Earth, Or At Least Philly
“Operating in the master-builder tradition, [Edmund] Bacon essentially used the force of his personality to prod a crumbling, has-been, industrial city into accepting the redevelopment he believed would reposition it for a modern future.”
Do We Really Want A Supercomputer Replica Of A Human Brain?
“Once you’ve built a plug-and-play brain, anything is possible. You could take it apart to figure out the causes of brain diseases. You could rig it to robotics and develop a whole new range of intelligent technologies. You could strap on a pair of virtual reality glasses and experience a brain other than your own.”
An Artist, Among Poets
“The show is an exercise in anthropology as well, an exploration of an ever-receding way of social life among successful creative people in the city, one in which the friendships built and circles configured seemed more firmly rooted in genuine affection, in affinity, in shared notions of whimsy, than in the prospect of mutual professional advantage.”