“An interesting paradox: The fewer seats you have in a theater, the less money you can bring in at the box office, but the more you can connect with your audience, and your audience includes your best donors. No arts organization can fund a building of this scale from ticket sales. It can from donors.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Case For Classical Contemporary, By A Soprano Unafraid To Perform It All
“Barbara Hannigan loves challenges. It’s like a sense of duty for her. ‘I have an obligation,’ she says. ‘Because it is not only satisfying to me but it also serves the composers and serves the music. And they need it.'”
The 1972 Dance That Changed The World
“Not even its organizers had completely believed this particular dance would take place, and disaster was still quite possible. Forbidding American college students to dance rarely seems like a tenable position, but up to the very day it was scheduled, administrators at the university felt they had not only public opinion but also the law on their side in blocking it. These students didn’t merely want to dance.”
No, Amazon Is (Probably) Not Opening Hundreds Of Bookstores
“Mutter says it’s not far-fetched to think the great online retailer would turn to physical stores. E-book sales have plateaued. They’re popular for niche use, but printed books, he says, are experiencing a resurgence.”
Totally Not A Review Of The Pinter Play That Samuel French Didn’t Want Reviewed
Call it an evaluative essay instead. Charles McNulty: “Pinter may have felt as strongly as Beckett about the sanctity of a playwright’s work, but he was also a ferocious champion of artistic expression. The theater, the most public of literary art forms, depends on such freedom.”
Football Teams Aren’t The Only Ones Facing Off Today
“The losing theatres will incorporate an element of the winning team into the scenic design of an upcoming production; the staff of the losing theatre must wear the winning team’s colors to work the following Monday and post evidence on social media; and the defeated theatres must decorate their main box offices with a stuffed version of the winning team’s mascot.”
The Washington Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down In June
“He has decided to spend more time in the studio, making new ballets and working with dancers, he said. ‘Over the last few years, many of my works have been performed outside the Washington Ballet, and I’ve been turning down projects,’ he said.”
Samuel French Tries To Shut Down A Seattle Play An Hour Before Curtain
“The one-person play, created and performed by Erin Pike and written by Courtney Meaker consists entirely of dialogue from the female characters that appear in the 10 most-frequently-produced Amercian plays during the 2014—2015 season.”
Dystopian Novel Author Hates Dystopian Fiction And Wonders Why There Isn’t More Sex In The Apocalypse
Claire Vaye Watkins: “We’re plod, plod, plodding along, one foot in front of the other, and the ash is grey – and it’s just the same emotional key struck again and again and again.”
Why Do Humans Love Invented Languages So Much?
“Strangely enough, the more ‘alien’ the language, the more we can learn about our own messy human languages and how ‘weird’ they can seem. Marc Okrand, the creator of Klingon, explains how he deliberately tried to violate human language universals in order to make Klingon seem alien, from the unusual set of sounds in its phoneme inventory to using uncommon syntactic rules, such as the object-verb-subject word order seen only in about 1% of the world’s languages.”