The UK’s first vaudeville festival has been rescheduled to May 2013, joining a list of other fests cancelled this summer due to rain and flood fears.
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New Vivaldi Opera Discovered In Library Archives ‘A Gift From Heaven’
“In a development described by music experts as ‘a bombshell in the world of Baroque opera,’ a new version of Vivaldi’s opera Orlando Furioso has been discovered, 270 years after his death.” Written 13 years before the composer’s other, well-known opera by the same name, it contains at least 20 new arias.
Those BBC Shakespeare Films You’ve Watched For Years? Crap, Says Director Sir Richard Eyre
In the 1970s at the BBC, the director of the new The Hollow Crown says, was “an ageing producer who had been ‘put out to grass’ with the brief to televise the complete works of Shakespeare. ‘The result was a catastrophe, because…'”
Star Of Slumdog Millionaire, Playing A New Tess In Trishna
Frieda Pinto, who plays the role of the titular Trishna in Michael Winterbottom’s new adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, on playing the role: “Sometimes you don’t put to rest what you opened up emotionally that day. It’s like walking around with an open wound. You are the open wound.”
Is A Rediscovered Klimt Really By Gustav’s Brother Ernst?
“An early work by the symbolist artist Gustav Klimt that was thought lost forever has reportedly been found in a garage in northern Austria.The timing of the discovery could not be more appropriate as Austria is currently celebrating its most famous painter’s 150th birthday, which fell on Saturday.” But one expert says that’s not the correct Klimt – it’s actually by Gustav’s less-talented brother Ernst.
Singin’ In The Rain At 60: Still Perfect, Still Surprising, Still Human
“Singin’ in the Rain continues to strike a chord, not just because it’s Hollywood’s best film about Hollywood, depicting itself with a combination of reverence and biting satire, but because it’s a story about second chances.”
Shakespeare Theatre/Landlord Dispute Headed To Federal Court
“Judge Richard Leon determined the issue should be tried in a D.C. Superior Court. He said the ‘battle’ between the STC and the Lansburgh ‘has all the trappings of an epic one.'” The Lansburgh Theater – the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s landlord and supporting organization – raised the rent by 700 percent in mid-June.
Can The Arts Help Stop The Killing Of Kids In Chicago?
“The presence of the arts in a neighborhood makes that neighborhood safer, if only because kids spend more time out of a bullet’s way. “
Dancers, Forming A Community In The Face Of ‘Indefinite Postponement’
When the young dancers ready to remake Dirty Dancing find out it’s all over, they get together and “dance it out.”
What Does The internet Look Like?
A series of tubes, of course. Or rather a series of fiber-optic cables, and here’s a fascinating world map to show them.