Katori Hall says change won’t be easy: “That requires a lot of giving up. Giving up your seat to let people sit at the table who haven’t always been allowed to sit … that’s often not on the stage, but where the decisions are made. That’s on the board. How many black artistic directors does the UK theatre scene have? I’m always asking, are we performing inclusion, are we performing diversity? Or are we actually doing it. Let’s see if the acknowledgment phase shifts through into the action phase.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Academy Expanded, But The Theatre Shrank, So Who Gets Tickets To The Oscars?
After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. “Members receive an email around the holidays, inviting them to enter a ticket lottery. And while the academy has embraced online voting, the lottery is conducted the old-fashioned way. Names are written on slips of paper and then pulled out of a drum. ‘We don’t use a hat, but it’s close,’ says an academy worker familiar with the process.”
Mondrian Heirs Would Like Four Paintings Back, Please
If, indeed the paintings belong to them: “The heirs of Mondrian, the pioneering Dutch abstractionist, have staked a claim to the paintings [at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld], asserting that he lent them to the museum almost 90 years ago and then left them behind when he fled Europe as World War II deepened.”
Will The UK’s Oldest Stage School Move Out Of Central London?
Basically, Italia Conti may be out of room and looking to expand.
To Avoid Any Mix-Ups, The Envelopes For The Oscars Listed Their Categories In Huge Print
If you were watching, you might have started laughing as soon as Viola Davis came out to present the Best Supporting Actor award: “The gold, giant bold type on the dark envelope, loudly announcing the name of the category, was so unmistakable it could be read clearly on TV. Last year’s envelope was an elegant red, but the smaller gold lettering on it was not so easily readable.”
The First Woman To Force The British Royal Academy To Let Her In Blazed A Trail For Others
Even in the early 20th century, women weren’t allowed to study nude bodies at the Royal Academy – they had to travel to Rome or Paris to do that. But Annie Swynnerton persisted – even though she “faced prejudice not just for her gender but also for her realistic, unromanticised depiction of female bodies, which was dismissed by those who preferred unblemished classical fantasy.”
What Was Frances McDormand Talking About With The Words ‘Inclusion Rider’?
When she won for best actress in a motion picture, McDormand gave a short, fiery speech that ended with “I have two words for you: Inclusion rider.” Those two words sent millions to Google, but there wasn’t much there (at the time). An inclusion rider would be “something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.”
How ‘The Post’ Makes Katherine Graham Less Interesting Than She Really Was
Obviously, it would do that because it’s just a movie, not a life (and not even a biopic), but still: “The real Graham, who survived a poor-little-rich-girl childhood and an abusive marriage, was wracked for most of her life by self-doubt. Her actual life … oozed much more drama, and she lived through it with a mix of admirable qualities (guts, leadership) and ugly ones (insecurity, insensitivity).”
First ‘Animal Farm’ Gets Banned In China, And Then The Letter ‘N’
Also: “Search terms blocked on Sino Weibo, a microblogging site which is China’s equivalent of Twitter, include ‘disagree’, ‘personality cult’, ‘lifelong’, ‘immortality’, ’emigrate’, and ‘shameless’.”
Time To Bring Dance (Back) To Church
New York’s churches have been home to some pretty radical dance – and dancer/choreography Reggie Wilson wants to bring some of that cross-platform work back to life.