“The show has now sold to 50 countries, and I think one of the reasons it has is because it looks like a quote-unquote American show. …Everybody in this town knows how to make those, because a lot of them are made here.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Accept A Knighthood, Get Aged Out Of The Arts?
“‘When you get to my age, there’s a certain point at which you’re assumed to be dead,’ says Jonathan Miller, explaining why there has been a five-year gap between plays he has directed.”
The Man Behind The Grammy Show
“Mr. Ehrlich, 70, has been producing the Grammy Awards show for 33 years, and over that period he has become known for making the three-and-a-half-hour show into a forum for collaborations, historic reunions and spectacles that are perhaps unimaginable anywhere else.”
If You’re A Print Publisher, You Might Want To Move To India
“Experts say the millennia-old tradition of written texts, conservative Indian mindsets, vigorous event-based promotions of the reading culture, the sudden spurt in national and state-level literature festivals and competitive pricing are keeping the industry on the move, drawing new segments of readers.”
Florida Pastor Discovers That Forging Damien Hirst Paintings Isn’t So Simple
“‘Everything’s good, everything’s good,’ Mr. Sutherland wrote in an e-mail when the undercover officer asked of assurances that the works were real.”
If You Really, Really Love A Play, You’ll Never Let It Go
This 30-year-old woman has seen the Broadway musical ‘Once’ 95 times – but that’s far from her record for a Broadway show.
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Richard Wagner?
The music’s great; the man himself was rather inexcusable. We’re stuck with one if we want the other.
‘Chinglish’ Finds No Love In Mainland China
David Henry Hwang’s play accidentally (he says) matches last year’s scandal around the murder of a British expatriate businessman – so the play’s opening in Hong Kong instead of mainland China.
With BAFTA Win, ‘Argo’ Keeps Up Its Pace As Oscars Near
‘Argo’ won for best film, best director (Ben Affleck), and best editing. Will it beat out ‘Lincoln’ in two weeks?
L.A.’s Gordon Davidson Wants Kids To Love Theatre (And Take It Seriously, Too)
When the man who founded the Mark Taper Forum asked his USC theatre class students what they wanted to do, they mostly said Hollywood. He was not amused.