Masteroff, who adapted Cabaret from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and the stage adaptation of that book, hit a timely nerve (not that performances have ever stopped at colleges, high schools, and community theatres – or even on Broadway, where it was revived in 2014). “Cabaret, produced and directed by the Broadway legend Harold Prince, pushed boundaries with provocative depictions of homosexuality, bisexuality, ménages à trois and abortion” – and the growing Nazi threat.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Leonard Cohen’s Notebooks In The Freezer (And His Final Poems)
Leonard Cohen’s son says that even talking about his father’s process of writing feels like an invasion. “My father was very interested in preserving the magic of his process. And moreover, not demystifying it. Speaking of any of this … is a transgression,” Adam Cohen says. But a final book of poems “is what he was staying alive for.”
Unconvincing
Really, Metropolitan Opera and New York Phil, is this your updated classical music marketing?
Austria Has A Provocative Contemporary Art Festival, But Is Anyone Seeing It?
In far-right governed Austria, the Steirischer Herbst “appointed its first non-German-speaking director and is now redefining itself as an international art event. The Russian-born curator Ekaterina Degot, working with a collective of other exhibition makers, has used the historically loaded title ‘Volksfronten’ (People’s Fronts) for an exploration by more than 40 artists of what she describes in her catalog introduction as today’s ‘alarming déjà vus of the 1930s.'”
Propwatch: The Handkerchief In ‘Othello’
Mark Rylance uses, and abuses, several handkerchiefs (not just that one) as Iago, and it’s all part of revealing the villain.
Where Are All The British Working-Class Writers?
In Scotland, of course. “Scotland has an incredible wealth of working-class writers, thanks to a strong community and tradition of support from established authors.” But really, there are English, Welsh, and Northern Irish working-class writers as well, but the working-class writers and their publishers need to see interest from the public.
Weekend Extra: Ray Bryant
Warning: This piece may get stuck in your head.
Women In Hollywood Who Work Behind The Scenes Also Want – And Deserve – Equal Pay
A Pay Equity Summit was billed as “the first step” in getting women pay equity with men. One of the craft guilds “published a study this year arguing that female-dominated crafts are often paid less than male-dominated jobs of similar responsibility level. The study equated women-dominated jobs like script supervisors to male-dominated jobs like assistant directors.”
Damien Hirst To Close Small-Town Seaside Restaurant
Hirst also closed his gallery in Ilfracombe last year, and some in the town are frustrated with the artist, whose 20-meter statue of a woman with a developing fetus in her womb was one of the big tourist draws to the town and to the restaurant.
Architect Robert Venturi Changed Building Styles, But Kept Architecture Even More Of A White Man’s Club
His idea of “both-and” opened up possibilities for designing buildings that didn’t hide the work, but “even as Venturi ushered in a freer, less doctrinaire architectural culture, he helped pave the way for a white, male and clubby profession to close ranks against the outside world, and grow clubbier still.”