“Does it say something about the state of the American musical theater that the animating incident in the most accomplished new Broadway show of the season is the repairing of a vacuum cleaner?”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Bringing Cinema To Broadway With A New Movies-To-Musicals Fund
“Theater and movie industry execs Jed Bernstein, Bob Israel and Rich Battista have teamed to launch the Broadway and Vine Fund, a new fund for optioning movie titles for musical theater adaptations. First property to be optioned is 1984 Fox pic The Flamingo Kid.“
Snorting Vitamin B And Getting High On Rock Candy – What Onscreen “Drugs” Actually Are
“Movie sets are drug-free environments, at least in theory. Even if an actor is playing a tie-dye-wearing burnout whose best friend is a honey-bear bong, puffing the real thing is strictly verboten.”
Audra McDonald Returns To The Stage – And Garners More Acclaim
“Five years ago she stunned admirers of her luminous soprano by decamping to Los Angeles and the (nonsinging) role of the fertility specialist Naomi Bennett on the ABC series Private Practice. Now she has come back to New York theater, in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and her performance as the wanton, drug-addicted Bess has earned her superlative reviews and a Tony Award nomination, her seventh in 18 years.”
What Do You Do With All Of That Art You’ve Collected? Build A Private Museum, Of Course
“Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they’ve amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China’s flashy nouveau riche.”
Fine, Pulitzer Committee, We’ll Make The Decision Without You
Eight critics and editors do the job that the Pulitzer Prize committee wouldn’t – deciding which book should win this year’s fiction award.
Hanging In The Air: Performance Art, Or Just A Good Night’s Sleep?
“I climbed gingerly up a ladder and stepped into a red structure hanging like a balloon from a tree, deep in the woods of Holt Hall in Norfolk. The balloon began to expand as if by magic, its sides unfurling like petals; I lay down and the sky was visible through a porthole above me. There was a strange, soothing singing; a hand and face appeared at the porthole, and a smiling woman dressed in a kimono descended, set out four cups and saucers, and offered me tea.”
The History Of The Met – In 1024 Black And White Photos
“The images are stacked 10 high, snug as bathroom tile, in Founders Hall, the crypt that honors the civic leaders who made the dream of Lincoln Center a reality a half-century ago. Their names, gold-stamped on fake-marble plastic strips, are glued to the travertine at the foot of the Met’s curved double staircase.”
Human Rights Museum + Proposed Water Park = A Mess In Winnipeg
“The architect of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is criticizing the waterpark and hotel proposed for a lot across the street at The Forks. In a letter sent to Winnipeg city councillors Thursday night, Antoine Predock said a water park ‘risks trivializing’ the area’s rich historic past and cultural district that is being built up.”
The Problem With High Art Prices Isn’t About The Art – It’s About Inequality
Christopher Knight: “The obscenity isn’t in the astronomical sums art has been fetching, it’s in the circumstances that make those prices possible.”