“Independent U.S. comedy — especially the out-and-out gut-busters that skew toward the male audience that flocks to Baron Cohen — is having a trickier time generating global laughs (the less said about The Brothers Grimsby, the better).”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Why Does New Music Need Defenders?
The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini says we pretty much have to blame it all on Schoenberg.
How Can Theatre Be More Like Basketball?
In a video, Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theatre’s artistic director, explains. “The old vaudeville houses were interactive; in gilded opera theatres, the lights used to stay up, the crowd as much of a spectacle and dramatic social circus as the one that was happening on stage.”
Arabic Translators Did A Lot More Than Just Preserve Greek Philosophy
The translation was a well-funded, politically motivated effort to show that Muslims were just as smart as, and in many cases smarter and more philosophically advanced than, Greek-speaking Christians.
Inside The (New, Huge) Studio Of A Woman Of Steel
The artist Carol Bove has been successful with her massive metal pieces that she, and 10 assistants, have moved into a former brick factory. She likes the move: “The ability to afford what is essentially a huge machine shop has allowed her, perhaps counterintuitively, she said, to make pieces with more spontaneity.”
Quentin Tarantino Says He’ll Retire After Directing Two More Films
The director says he’ll fulfill a long-ago pledge to direct 10 films and then move on to other creative endeavors. In his own words: “Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, ‘Match that shit.'”
A U.S. Visa Fee Hike For Traveling Artists May Make It Even Harder For Them
The fees have gone up to fund free visas for refugees, says the US Citizen and Immigration Services. The fee hike will hurt more than the artists: “When only the wealthy kids who can hire an agency to advocate for their passage are coming, I can’t help but think that hardworking foreign artists aren’t the only ones missing out on something.”
When A Theatre (Allegedly) Asks A Women Candidate For Artistic Director What She’d Do For Child Care
And then if that theatre also ends up hiring a man, who used to be AD two decades earlier, lets its current AD (also a woman) go earlier than planned and draws a veil of “no comment” over the entire affair, objections will emerge.
A New Jersey-born Comedian Is London’s New ‘Night Mayor’
London’s nightclubs and music venues have been closing at a massive rate, but some subway lines are now running all night in London. New Night Czar Amy Lamé says she can’t wait to “hit the streets” so that she can help make plans and policy changes for “revelers, nighttime workers, businesses and shareholders”
A Canadian University Theatre Casts A White Woman As Othello, And You Can Probably Guess What Happened Next
The student director said she had “researched” the play, and that the role of Othello was the role of an “outsider” – a role that, she claimed, had nothing to do with race.