Annilese Miskimmon: “Opera and theatre were, and still are, a safe place for open-minded, creative people from both communities, a defence against all the sectarian problems. Art united while religion and politics divided.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Was Hitler A Sock Puppet For Himself?
“In the early fall of 1923, when Adolf Hitler was still mostly known for his frenzied speeches at Munich beer halls, a slim biography was published that lauded him as the savior of the German nation and even compared him to Jesus. … New research says Hitler penned the work himself.”
The Gifts Of John Cage
“He opened doors—floodgates, really—and dissolved definitions; if most of his own compositions now seem less interesting than the ramifications of his ideas, there can be little doubt that his oceanic spirit changed the topography.”
The True Freshness – And Possible Revolution – Of Issa Rae’s New HBO Series
“It’s taking a genre that’s long been pitched at one small sector of the viewing audience, and drawing the circle a little wider.”
The Guy Who Started A Shakespearean Theatre Company When He Was 8 Years Old
“We sprint to the dressing room, throw off our Vans and put on Elizabethan boots, toss tunics straight over our Nirvana T-shirts, and run around the woods to make our entrance on Shakespeare & Company’s verdant outdoor stage in Lenox, Mass.”
Striking Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians Play Free Concerts
“The musicians’ orchestral program on Oct. 9 features Antonin Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony, which the musicians were scheduled to play Oct. 14 to 16 under Manfred Honeck at concerts cancelled by management.”
Dancing For City Ballet As A New Parent
“I was talking to a former dancer, Pauline Golbin, who’s had two babies, and she said, ‘Doesn’t your dancing just feel more efficient?’ I said, ‘That’s a great word for it.’ I don’t use way too much energy anymore, and I can just dance. I’m calmer.”
Why We Love Psychological Thrillers Like The Girl On The Train
Blame Wilkie Collins, but also, “a cynical interpretation would be that it is a thriller that an intelligent person is happy to be seen reading. Hawkins’s novel gained a place on Barack Obama’s summer reading list, thereby endorsed as the thinking person’s page-turner. A couple of years ago it was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, also made into a glossy and violent film, that successfully filled this niche.”
Netflix Is Coming (Harder) For Movie Theatres, And Some Chains Are Furious
“Under the terms of this 10-picture deal [with iPic Entertainment], the luxury theater chain will screen original Netflix films in its 15 upscale theaters in cities including Los Angeles and New York.”
A Designer Who Changed Everything
“Elaine Lustig Cohen, whose prolific graphic design career began — almost accidentally — with signage for the celebrated Seagram Building in Manhattan, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89.”