Security was tight and the tears flowed hard as Sting dedicated the concert – with the opening minute of silence and then the song “Fragile” – to the 90 people who died in the attacks and the many, many musicians who have died in 2016.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Making It Big In Show Biz, But Only With Your BFF
These two guys met as undergrads and wrote the now infamous song “Edges” (the one musical theatre majors sing for every audition). Now they have a potential big hit on Broadway, the festival-awards-sweeping movie “La La Land” (starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, no big), and are – aside from a certain guy known as Lin-Manuel Miranda – “the future of the musical, on stage or screen.”
If You Understand 21st Century London At All, It’s Probably Because Of Zadie Smith
Her books White Teeth, NW, and the new Swing Time are clear-eyed about the state of the city in this century: “diverse, vivid, at times cacophonous, stuffed full of dreams and aspirations, of fear and friction, where the houses of the wealthy abut the estates of the poor and tension simmers beneath the humour.”
How A Dancer Can Transform Into A Choreographer
Do the usual: Apprentice, try to job-shadow and assist the best people, fly with your own wings – and be prepared for a few problems. “One of the toughest challenges will be getting people to see you in a new light.”
How Will The U.S. Election Affect The Art Market?
Flagship autumn sales were pushed from early November to late in the month, when whatever has happened is established fact. That’s because auction houses remember all too clearly what happened in the fall of 2000.
Thousands Of People Mass Outside British Museum To Protest Cultural Services Budget Cuts
Since 2010, more than 300 libraries have closed across the UK because they’re “non-essential services.” With even broader cuts, the Tories – say the protesters – threaten more libraries, and museums and galleries too.
The Sad, Surreal Experience Of Hearing Other Audience Members Laughing During ‘Moonlight’
Sometimes the audience and the movie don’t match up, to put it mildly, but that can be extra painful when the not-so-funny scene concerns a revelation of identity.
For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ The Blessing And The Curse Of This Election
Sure, Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump is so mimetic that he’s drowned out the actual candidate in our minds, and sure, Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton is a “savage yet sympathetic portrait of political thirst,” but the best SNL moments came on the edges of the election.
Where, Aside From The Presidential Candidates, Did Hollywood’s Money Go This Election?
Initiatives to legalize pot are quite popular among the, er, show business set.
Remember The Five Disappeared Hong Kong Booksellers? The Action Seems To Be Having Its Desired Effect
Shops that sold the political books banned in mainland China have closed; publishers that put the books out have gone out of business; and printers refuse to print the books for the writers and publishers who are left.