“I’m working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit. I apprehend light — I make events that shape or contain light.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Speed-Performing Beckett, Or, The Nine-Minute Play
“It’s absolutely terrifying and it doesn’t get any easier, but it’s almost the most exhilarating role I’ve ever known.”
Board President Leaves Troubled El Museo del Barrio
“Its fund-raising has slipped, its days of operation have been slashed from six to four, and roughly a fifth of its staff was laid off this year.”
Bored Characters Who Don’t Bore Readers
“The first of my five favourite tediums is Jane Eyre (1847) pacing up and down the third storey at Thornfield Hall, longing for a bigger life and ‘a power of vision which might overpass that limit.'”
Niall Ferguson Is Daft: People With Children Are The Selfish Ones
“All the promises such as ‘I’ll still come on that march/go to that conference/burn down that sex shop’ disappear when they sprog. All those in my circle with offspring seem to become unhealthily obsessed with their own little world. Principles go out of the window.”
Riz Ahmed Plays – And Is – A Complex Character
“I’f you cut Riz open, you’ll find London inside,’ said Solomons, who is a fellow Londoner. ‘He really is kind of what young Britain is like. He’s kind of spry, he’s kind of sly, he’s kind of moveable. He kind of adapts. He can kind of pass anywhere.'”
At Lortel Awards, ‘Piano Lesson’ and ‘Whale’ Turn Up Winners
“‘The Piano Lesson’ won the most awards in competition — four — for outstanding revival, director (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), lead actress (Roslyn Ruff) and featured actor (Chuck Cooper).”
Dear Pushy Parents Of Privileged Kids: Stop Screwing Around
Violinist Nicola Benedetti “has urged Britain’s more privileged children to stick with only one instrument and practise hard if they want to know the true meaning of fun.”
H.G. Wells, Toy-Soldier Gamer (And Influencer Of Military Strategy?)
“While miniature war-gaming has never been able to claim a place in the mainstream, it has influenced almost everything we think of as gaming today. By the middle of the 20th century, war-gaming had not only added new sets of rules for armies of many periods, but it had inspired a new kind of richly complex board game.”
Uprisings, Revolutions, War – And Creativity
“During the Arab spring, and in Egypt in particular, there was this incredible meeting of great unrest with social media and art.”