Having the 3,800-seat Metropolitan Opera House to dance in is a blessing and a curse for the ballet as it has to balance creativity with getting people in seats. “When dancing elsewhere, its repertory consists more largely of one-act ballets; when at the Met, it has tended to model itself on the old Royal: full-length ballets with impressive scenery and costumes, storytelling and acting.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Even Famous Actors Have To Deal With A Huge Amount Of Sexism On Set
Zoe Kazan (whose partner of 10 years, Paul Dano, is named in the following quote) says, “There’s no HR department, right? We don’t have a redress. We have our union, but no one ever resorts to that, because you don’t want to get a reputation for being difficult. I’ve told Paul about stuff that has happened on set and it’s almost as if he can’t take it in. It’s too upsetting. And he’s never had to deal with that once.”
New Theatre In The UK Is ‘Drying Up’ As Funding Crises Hit Programs For Playwrights
Screenwriter Olivia Hatreed, president of the Writers’ Guild, says, “It always takes a couple of years after the cuts start for people to really feel the impact… You kind of go along and think it’s all fine, but really you’ve already walked off the cliff.”
How Is Wrestling Like Greek Theatre?
One of the creators of Netflix’s new wrestling series, GLOW, says: “You’re telling stories on a scale that we’re not used to, but that’s really exciting — that can cross cultures, can cross languages. From one side, if you’re being ungenerous, you can say it’s super reductive and then from the other side, you could say it’s storytelling at its most potently inclusive and epic.”
Empathy May Be Overrated
That’s right, we need to understand irreducible alterity – a philosophical concept developed by a Holocaust survivor. “What if instead of sameness it were otherness that was the foundation for ethical action? What if being confronted by someone utterly different from you — someone you are opposed to, confused by, scared of, someone you can’t understand — was the urgent signal that there was a life in need of your protection?”
The 3 Million Dollar Hobby Lobby Illegal Smuggling Case Casts A Pall Over The Museum Of The Bible
Not good, and Biblical scholars are taking note. (Also, wow: “The company never met the dealer, and wired payments to seven different bank accounts. The items arrived in 10 packages at three different Hobby Lobby addresses, labeled only ‘ceramic tiles’ and ‘clay tiles (sample).'”)
The Wage Gap For Actors Of Color Is Real, As The Hawaii Five-0 Mess Shows All Too Clearly
The fact that CBS wasn’t paying Asian American cast members anywhere near what white cast members were making is all too normal, the numbers say, including in TV dramas and comedies – and, obviously, cop shows.
The Bolshoi Has ‘Indefinitely Postponed’ A High-Profile Ballet About Nuryev, Perhaps Because Of The Director’s Outspoken Politics
Just days before the ballet was set to premiere, the Bolshoi shocked the dance world with this move. Its director, Kirill Serebrennikov, “has fallen out of favour with Russia’s cultural authorities in recent years and has denounced increasing censorship of the arts.”
The Internet Killed (Almost) All Of Los Angeles’ Seedy Porn Palace Movie Theatres
L.A. used to have dozens of porn movie theaters. “Now only two remain: the Studs and the Tiki. They sit at opposite ends of Santa Monica Boulevard — the former in West Hollywood, the latter in East Hollywood, framing the city in an unseen porno-magnetic field.”
If Jane Austen Lived Today, She Would Definitely Have A Twitter Feed Critiquing ‘The Bachelor’
“It seems that long before reality TV binges and bodice-rippers, women were indulging in entertainment that mixed straightforward pleasure with the appreciation of unintentional camp.”